Here is an interesting excerpt from Dr. B. Barry Levy's Fixing God's Torah : The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law : F...

This following was written by Judah David Eisenstein in a letter to the editor of the Hebrew Standard (Dec. 14, 1900, pg. 7), concerning Ri...

I do not come here to de frum ify Isaac Leeser, but to offer a little bit of perspective on one reason that the nuances of history are chall...

There is an interesting (and hilarious) new book by A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically, One Man's Humble Quest to follow the Bib...

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In Zolkiew, Galicia, a very popular anecdote was told until the 1930s about Rabbi Zwi Hirsch Chajes (1805-55), a famous scholar and grandfat...

An interesting bit in שו"ת מהר"ץ סימן יא page תרמד in כל ספרי מהר"ץ חיות ב which explains a mishna in a novel manner. Yoma ...

From the 1919 proceedings of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform).

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From The Early Acharonim: R' Azaryah min HaAdomim (de Rossi) b. Mantua, Italy, c. 5271/1511 d. Bologna (?) Italy, 5338/1578 According to...

A great, free resource for American Jewish history is Carnegie-Mellon University's Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project , which contains ...

(See post I .) Perhaps the content of the post is given away by its title. Be that as it may, have a look at at this excerpt from the פיטום ...

The Agudah monthly The Jewish Observer has a section devoted to the problem of "Adults at-risk." In the present issue there is a...

Commenter Daniel Scheide informs that the famous and controversial ספר נתיבות השלום Pentateuch, otherwise known as the Bi'ur (after i...

Volokh Conspiracy has a good post called 'How much did Shakespeare embiggen* the English vocabulary?' Basically, there is an old tr...

Halakhah can be minutely precise. So it seems, and so it is. Thus it is interesting when it fails to be precise, especially in an area where...

החכם Evanstonjew pointed out that in James Kugel's new book* How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now there is a ref...

The Birnbaum Siddur ( Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem , 1949, edited by Philip Birnbaum used to be ubiquitous in English speaking Orthodox synagogues. ...

From last year . An interesting excerpt from R. Daniel Sperber's Minhagei Yisrael (from the excerpts in the English version translated ...