Speaker Profile Yosef Lindell

Yosef Lindell is a lawyer, writer, and lecturer living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two sons. He has an MA in Jewish history from Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School and a JD from NYU School of Law. For four years, he was an editor of the Lehrhaus, an online forum for Jewish thought, and now serves on its consulting editorial board.

Yosef’s writing spans several genres, including science fiction, but he primarily focuses on Jewish history and thought. He has published around 50 articles in venues including the Atlantic, the Jewish Review of Books, Lehrhaus, JTA, Jewish Action, Tablet, Hakirah, the Seforim Blog, the Forward, and 18Forty.

Speaker's Resources

From the Mishnah to Maggid: Case Studies in the Development of the Haggadah

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Parshat Beshalach

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Who Wrote the Siddur? (Part 4) - How Did Modernity Change the Siddur?

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Who Wrote the Siddur? (Part 3) - The Siddur from the Geonim to the Printing Press

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Who Wrote the Siddur? (Part 2) - Did All Jews Pray With the Same Words? Between the Land of Israel and Babylonia

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Who Wrote the Siddur? (Part 1) - Jewish Prayer from Tanakh to the Talmud

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e-TiM: Who Wrote the Siddur?

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e-TIM: Parshat HaShavuah 5785 with Weekly Guest Speakers

Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz, Leora Moskowitz Orenshein, Professor Shoshana Schechter, Professor Yitzhak Berger, Rabbanit Dr. Adena Berkowitz, Rabbanit Shalhevet Cahana, Rabbi Adam Mintz, Rabbi Asher Finkelstein, Rabbi Aviad Tabory, Rabbi Benjamin Samuels, Rabbi Chaim Metzger, Rabbi Dr. David Harbater, Rabbi Dr. Ezra Frazer, Rabbi Dr. Jacob Jaffe, Rabbi Elliot Schrier, Rabbi Eric Grossman, Rabbi Judah Kerbel, Rabbi Mark Glass, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Rabbi Moshe Shulman, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Rabbi Steven Gotlib, Rabbi Susan Hornstein, Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, Ruth Shane, Sarah Gordon, Shira Hecht-Koller, Sofia Freudenstein, Yoetzet Halacha Adina Blaustein, Yosef Lindell
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From Grief and Despair to Anger and to Hope: How Should One Feel on Tisha B'av?

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e-TiM: Tisha B'Av 5784

Dr. Naomi Seidman, Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz, Rabbi Adam Mintz, Rabbi Alex Israel, Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl, Rabbi Yosie Levine, Yoetzet Halacha Laurie Novick, Yosef Lindell
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Parshat Shavua 5784 with weekly guest speakers (Bamidbar)

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Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 5) - Third Time’s the Charm? The Rabbinical Council of America’s Siddurim

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Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 3) - The Adler/Routledge Machzor: Prayer, Poetry, and a Transatlantic Battle of the Translators

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Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 2) - Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan’s Living Torah: How Literally Must One Translate the Chumash?

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Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 1) - A Modern Orthodox Chumash? The Hertz Pentateuch and its Polemics

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