Monthly Archives: January 2007
Thank you Tyler for bringing this to light! This is abfab! Fighting Shevas OK, this is too funny. This Chris fellow made an animation illustrating a sheva fight (In Biblical Hebrew, when two shevas are found at the beginning of a word, the first sheva becomes a hireq). I will […]
From Arutz Sheva – Israel National News The world’s largest electronic collection of Torah literature is now available online – in Hebrew. The Bar Ilan University Responsa Project, launched in 1991 in its CD format, was recently uploaded to the Internet on a platform provided by C.D.I. Systems. (See http://www.responsa.co.il) […]
And they just posted this one and I felt compelled to repost it here with Jim in mind. Free Beethoven and Mozart Recordings via Podcast Courtesy of Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcasting service, you can fill your iPod at no cost with some exceptional classical music. We’d particularly encourage […]
Open Culture is a great site for free and intellectually stimulating audio. Two posts on their blog illustrate this well. In the first they list resources for learning languages. But there are no Hebrew podcasts!? Anyone have a link for us to Hebrew podcasts? In the second they provide a […]
In an interesting piece reflecting upon President’s Ford’s status as an adopted child (and Bill Clinton’s as well) commentator Jay Homnick shows his knowledge of rabbinica. In President Ford’s case there is an added poignancy in the notion that he was essentially an adopted President. The citizenry had not voted […]
{Cross-posted from engage.shc.psu.edu} This is a profile of a great Penn Stater, John Shaffer, and the story of how the Fiesta Bowl in 1987 was the beginning of the modern BCS phenomena. I will tell you that I am not a fan of the current system, nor of the kind […]
I am working on a revision of a paper (presented long ago) and the discussion of Saddam Hussein’s execution at this blog was brought to mind by this quote from Mekhilta DeRabbi Ishmael (Shirta 1). This is a midrash listing ten songs found throughout the Bible (based upon Ex. 15.1, […]
My wife Elizabeth recently posted one of her early short stories. I think folks who stop by here might like it. “The House God” From her blog: I have decided to share the aforementioned short story, “The House God.” You can find it here or using the tab at the […]
Jim West shared this quote for the New Year and it seems too good and appropriate not to share it as well. {Cross posted with engage.shc.psu.edu.} The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked […]