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Tag Archives: Hillel Newman
Why Do I Read the Talmud?
About a year ago I was asked to write an article for a French Jewish Studies Journal – Tsafon (published by the University of Lille), that would offer to the French scholar a status quaestionis of Talmudic studies. I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Ruminations
Tagged Daniel Boyarin, Hillel Newman, Pierre Bourdieu, Seth Schwartz
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Halakha in the Holiday Season
While vendors here in the open-market already began selling sufganiyot a few months ago, the recent displays of hanukiyot are a sure sign of the impending holiday season. Veteran readers of The Talmud Blog may recall Shai’s classic 2009 post … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences
Tagged Aharon Shemesh, Cana Werman, Halakha, Hillel Newman, Vered Noam, Yad Ben Zvi
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