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

Yosef Lindell

Audio

Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 4) - An Accurate Machzor and a Misspelled Matzevah: The Story of Dr. Philip Birnbaum’s Prayer Books

Yosef Lindell

Audio

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

Yosef Lindell

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

Yosef Lindell

Audio

e-TiM: The Mussar Dispute

Dr. Marc Shapiro

The Mussar Dispute Dr. Marc Shapiro Mondays, 8:30pm Eastern continuing, September, 9, 2024 The Mussar Movement, originated by R. Israel Salanter, was to have an enormous influence on the yeshiva world. Yet it also created great controversy. Why…
Program

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

Yosef Lindell

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19. Anti-Maimonides | Dr. Tamar Rudavsky

Dr. Tamar Rudavsky

J.J. and Dr. Tamar Rudavsky trace the responses to Maimonides among Medieval Jewish Philosophers. T.M. Rudavsky is Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. She specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy and has edited three volumes:…
Podcast

e-TiM: The Gates of Gaza

Shulie Mishkin

The Gates of Gaza Shulie Mishkin Wednesdays, 12:00pm Eastern, 7:00pm Israel time Class on Wednesday, February 14 is cancelled January 10  Introduction and Tanakh period January 17 Second Temple Times - Twentieth Century: Jewish and Christian…
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18. The German Haskalah | Dr. Michah Gottlieb

Dr. Michah Gottleib

J.J. and Dr. Michah Gottlieb shed light on the origins of the Haskalah in Berlin, and examine Mendelssohn's role in it.
Podcast

17. The Real Maimonides | Dr. Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman

J.J. and Dr. Noah Feldman attempt uncover what Maimonides was really trying to do in his halakhic and philosophical works.
Podcast