Tag: Solomon Schechter

This essay explores the variations in prayer traditions among Jews in ancient times.
Abraham Socher engages in a thoughtful debate with Tal Keinan regarding the conservation and transmission of Judaism, critiquing Keinan's "crowdsourcing" approach as inadequate compared to traditional understandings of Jewish continuity.
IfNotNow has launched the #YouNeverToldMe campaign on social media to highlight stories from Jewish millennials who express disappointment that Jewish institutions did not adequately educate them about Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
Chemda, a radio celebrity known for her podcast "Keith and The Girl," recently underwent open-heart surgery to remove a non-cancerous tumor close to her heart.
Solomon Schechter's discovery of the Cairo Geniza in 1896, a collection of discarded Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts from the Ben Ezra Synagogue, revealed a trove of Jewish historical and literary treasures, including writings from the Exilarchs, Jewish philosophers like Saadya Gaon and Maimonides, and poets such as Shmuel Ha-nagid and Yehuda Halevi.
Computer scientists at Tel Aviv University are utilizing artificial intelligence to reconstruct over 1,000 documents from the vast Cairo Genizah collection, which contains 350,000 fragments illuminating 1,000 years of Jewish history and culture.