Good morning fellow students of Jewish history: I’m very honored to be marking a Siyum ha-Shas (completion of a cycle of study of the Babylonian Talmud) and would love to share the celebration with you. I’ve been working on this since April 2019, producing one video per each folio of the Talmud (2,711 when I’m done!) for the Jewish History in Daf Yomi podcast (https://alldaf.org/series/jewish-history/3940). Please take a minute to watch this video, and I would be especially pleased if you participated. Please visit lcm.touro.edu/siyumjournal or write efeder@touro.edu. Thank you and g’mar tov!

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The Amazing Odyssey of the Yabloner Rebbe

Lecture Delivered after the Assassination of Mr. Charlie Kirk

Question and Answer Session went long

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Azariah da Rossi and the Earthquake of 1570

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New publication!

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Celebrating a completion of study of the Babylonian Talmud

Need something to read this Elul? Try one of these…

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Wednesday evening: “Mistakes were made (but not by me)”: A new approach to Vidui (confession)

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Thursday Evening: Webinar hosted by the University of Maryland

The “Other” Famous Medieval Jewish Explorer

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Wednesday Night: Rabbi Katz on Forgiveness! (My lectures are September 10, 17)

Personal Reflections on his Historical Contributions

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Starting this Wednesday Evening with Rabbi Katz! (I’m speaking on September 10 and 17)

Thank you Charlotte R. Alexander!

What does Judaism look like with 400 years without Rabbis or Jewish books?

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Unpacked on Hasidism

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Teshuvah Unpacked with Rabbi Shua Katz

Survival Strategies: Confronting Hate in Jewish History

Live at Congregation Ahavat Torah in Englewood at 9:30 am, Sunday August 3

Or join us via Zoom Webinar at 6:15 pm at Congregation Darchei Noam.

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Release date: Tuesday, August 5

Working as a mining engineer in a remote part of northern Portugual, Samuel Schwarz made a remarkable discovery: despite four hundred years of persecution by the Inquisition, several thousand people secretly retained their allegiances to Judaism. Cut off from the world population of Jews, these Crypto-Jews initially refused to believe that this French-trained engineer from an Orthodox family in Poland could possibly share their faith, until he recited the Shema Yisraelprayer before the village elder, who pronounced him “one of ours.” This book, translated for the first time into English, is his account of how the Crypto-Jews maintained their faith in the face of overwhelming opposition, with a treatment of their rituals and a large selection of their prayers.