Lectures in Jewish History and Thought. No hard questions, please.
Moses Maimonides was one of the greatest scholars of medieval Jewish history, yet his works were hardly without controversy in his day. This video (48m) surveys his life and work, with emphasis on the subsequent controversies and their resolution.
Good morning fellow students of Jewish History!
My wife Ilana and I are proud to serve as the Guests of Honour (note the Canadian spelling, very considerate of them) at the time 41st Annual Dinner of the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, together with the Young Leadership Awardees Gila and Alan Goldberg.
We are enthusiastic participants in YILC, a wonderful community resource under the leadership of Rabbi Ya’akov Trump. Please click here or on the image below to participate!
Our teenage son Aryeh is 27% of the way to his goal! We are proud that he is training to represent Team USA at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem. Got to love the youthful energy in his promo video. Click here to participate!
Proud to address the famous Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst Teshuvah Haburah (at first I thought they were all about repentance, but in reality it’s a group of highly intelligent people who gather to discuss Rabbinic Responsa, also good).
Please join in person tonight at 9pm ET or via zoom: bit.ly/YILCSHUT, passcode is yilctorah.
Good morning fellow students of Jewish history! Please join me at 11:30 am ET for a half-hour discussion of the emancipation of the Jews of Western Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
I’m very proud of our teenage son Aryeh, selected to participate in the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem as part of Team USA, competing in Shotokan Karate. He’s raised almost a quarter of the funds he needs to make his goal. Please visit his fundraising page and help him out!
Very proud that this week marked the registration of the 54th student in the new, experimental Biblical Jewish History course! I am especially grateful to the many students who have made comments on the draft chapters of my forthcoming book, The Jewish People: A History, which serves as the online textbook for this video-heavy course. Thinking of joining us? Click on the image below for more information and registration instructions!
Hello fellow students of Jewish history! Here’s something historic, at least in terms of the Abramson family: our teenage son Aryeh has been selected to represent Team USA at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem! His sport is Shotokan Karate.
It’s a kind of a family tradition now: his older sister Aliza competed four years ago and brought home four silver medals in the same sport!
Here’s Aryeh’s promo video:
Please consider sponsoring him! Please click here.
Very honored to serve as a Scholar-In-Residence this Shabbos, parshas Vayehi, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, New York. Please view the video for the planned public talks (which will not be recorded, of course).
Rabbis Who, If they had the Temerity to Show up in Our Shuls today…
The Aish Kodesh on How to Be Gen-Z (useful for Boomers too)
This week’s Mishpacha Magazine has a kind profile written by Mrs. Barbara Bensoussan. We had a long conversation and I probably overshared stuff, but here’s a link to the online version if you’re curious.
Congregation Talmud Torah of Flatbush, 1305 Coney Island Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY. 8:15 pm. Please join us!
Good morning fellow students of Jewish history: please join me for this week’s series of video premieres (with live chat), live in-person and zoom classes. We’ll be looking at the 18th century with some forays into Jewish art history and the controversy that led the Jews of France to torch Maimonides’ works in 1232. Here’s the planned schedule:
First in a series of three lectures looking at major Jewish leaders who endured intense controversy in their lifetimes (the next two are Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto and the Lubavitcher Rebbe). Sponsored by the Beth Jacob Congregation of Beverly Hills, California. 7:30 PM Pacific (10:30 ET), Zoom link is private, available to Beth Jacob congregants and members of my YouTube channel at the Colleague level (see weekly announcements on the Community tab).
Continuation of the Jewish History Lab series, hybrid in-person and Zoom class at Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, 7:30 pm ET. Zoom link is private, available to Beth Jacob congregants and members of my YouTube channel at the Colleague level (see weekly announcements on the Community tab).
YouTube video with live chat, Thursday at 3pm ET (check here for link later this week).
Live lecture at Congregation Talmud Torah of Flatbush, 1305 Coney Island Boulevard, Brooklyn New York, at 8:15 pm ET. This lecture will not be broadcast.
Thank you to all who have supplied comments and edits to the draft chapters on Ancient Israel! Please check in to read the new material.
Students in Hungary: in light of the current surge of Omicron, we have moved the January meetings in Budapest to late March.
Good morning fellow students of Jewish history. Please join me today for a discussion of the implications of postmodernism and the digital age in the XIV Torah and Science conference, held virtually at this link. My presentation is at 1:45 PM ET, the conference program is below. I hope to release a recording later, but a Q&A opportunity is planned for today’s live presentation.
Premiering today at 12pm ET: Jewish Migration to the New World. Following up on the previous Jewish History Lab video on the Origins of the Jews in the New World, this brief video will survey the major waves of Jewish migration in the 18th-20th centuries.
Final lecture in the three-part series entitled Hasidim, Mitnagdim and Maskilim: The Formation of Jewish Identity in the 18th century, 11:45 am ET at the Beit Midrash of Teaneck, 70 Sterling Place, Teaneck NJ. Zoom link available by writing to BMTeaneck@gmail.com.
The Jewish History Lab lecture series will not meet at YILC this Wednesday night. We plan to resume on December 18.
“Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Wisdom: Postmodernism and the Digital Age,” International Conference on Torah and Science, 1:45 PM ET. Link available at www.TorahScienceConference.org.
Henry Abramson 