Join us for a live lecture at Touro University, Monday night! Difficult Topic. The Jews of Bukhara

Lecture open to the public! RSVP required Live Zoom link available to YouTube Channel Members, check your Community Tab for the link. The Elders of Kairouan Wondered: Is this guy for real? Jews and Commerce in Medieval Ashkenaz

Monday March 3: Please join me for this public lecture! Today: The Takkanot of Early Ashkenaz Resurgence of Antisemitism after October 7 (Project Witness Conference) Want to learn more?

Very enthused to be speaking at the following Yeshivot in Israel! Contact their offices for details: Second lecture in the History of Ashkenazic Jewry series Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed 3. Blockheads are Gonna Block Please join me for these public lectures!

Enjoyed this conversation with President Kadish and Dr. Leiman! Who Were The Mysterious Radhanites? The Remarkable Shem Tov Bible With Dr. Sharon Liberman Mintz, Judaica curator for Southeby’s, at a private viewing of this amazing 14th century Spanish Bible. Eurafrican Jews of the Caribbean

Really looking forward to speaking to this amazing community! The Sephardic Diaspora: Safed and Rabbi Moshe Cordoeiro (Cordovero) New Series on Ashkenazic Jewry for Channel Members

Really looking forward seeing my friends at YILC! Meet the Intrepid Explorer-Rabbis of the 3rd Century Recap of last week’s Guide for the Perplexed Seminar Sephardic Jews in the New World

Hard to believe such beautiful places exist! Jewish Caribbean Migration Patterns Eurafrican Jews in the Caribbean The Sephardic Diaspora: Europe Want to learn more Jewish History? Try one of these online courses!

Really looking forward to meeting this community! Message recorded from Jerusalem last week Medieval Antisemitism and the Spanish Inquisition

Really looking forward to speaking to the Or Avner community in Aurora, CO! The Maimonidean Controversy Save the Date: Shabbaton in Roslyn NY, December 20-21

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…

Sunday 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. Tuesday Final lecture in the three-part series entitled Hasidim,…

Strange but true: Jewish sources largely ignored the history of Chanukah until the 10th century! Here’s a quick review of the major works, and how they affected the Jewish memory of this remarkable period in Jewish history. Here’s a few Sefaria links to texts mentioned in the video: Relevant section of Talmud, Tractate Shabbat Megilat…

Review of Reuven Melekh ben Binyamin Yitzhak Schwartz, Emek Ha-Sufganim: Iyunim u-beiurim be-inyan minhag akhilat sufganim be-yemei hanukah Israel: Sh. Vaynraikh, Hanukah 5780 (2019), 431 pages. For a copy, please contact your local Jewish bookseller or the phone numbers listed on the copyright page: (718) 253-2804; (516) 581-3597; (718) 501-3165. Interested in studying more deeply?…

The Misnagdim Strike Back! Part II of the series on Hasidim, Mitnagdim and Maskilim: The Formation of Jewish Identity. Open to the Community at Beit Midrash of Teaneck, 70 Sterling Place, Teaneck NJ. Tuesday, November 30 at 11:45 am. Please write BMTeaneck@gmail.com for Zoom links. Take your learning to the next level: try a course!

We begin with 23 bedraggled refugees from the Inquisition, sailing into the harbor of what would become New York.

Three live lectures at Beit Medrash of Teaneck, 70 Sterling Avenue, Teaneck NJ 07666. Tuesdays November 23, November 30, and December 7. 11:45 AM ET. Please write BMTeaneck@gmail.com for Zoom information.

A brief look at the life and times of one of the most notorious false messiahs of Jewish history.

The Torah and Science Conference will be virtual this year, please visit http://www.torahscienceconference.org for details. I’m looking forward to speaking on “Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Wisdom: Postmodernism and the Digital Age,” Thursday December 9 at 1:45 pm ET. Join our class! Click here for course information and registration.

On the one hand, Maimonides and later Chabad traditions. On the other hand, some archaeological examples. Here’s a brief look at what we know. Now online! A new course in Biblical Jewish History. Check it out here, and join us!

Really thrilled to have so many people sign up for this new online course! If it interests you, please click here to check out the syllabus, and join us!