Other Topics

Here is a gift for Chanukah. It's a biblical-and-near-Eastern-studies-themed parody of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General, from The Pirates of Penzance. Watch here.

Rashi and Why Women Light the Menorah

Was there a Chanukah Miracle?

Was Channukah an improbable military victory or a miracle about long-lasting oil?

Israel

Israel's Noble (Prize) History

The Nobel Prize, Jerusalem, and being a Mench

The Nobel Prize, the Paratrooper, and the Maimonides Rule

Medicine

Vaccines, Hysteria and Rabbinic Responsibility

Purim

Queen Esther's Fight or Flight Reaction

Gender Fluidity, Male Lactation and Mordechai

Pesach

How the Sarajevo Haggadah was Saved. Twice.

The Chemistry of Chametz

The Talmudology Passover Reader

Rosh Hashanah

Is Honey Bad For You?

How to Mellify a Corpse

Tisha B’Av

Talmudology for Tisha B'Av: Titus and Tinnitus

Science & (Jewish) Faith

A three-part discussion about what we mean when we say that science changes.

Part I: Science, Torah, and The Deceased Wife’s Sister Controversy

Part II: Ta’amei Hamitzvot in the British Medical Journal: The Deceased Wife’s Sister Controversy

Part III: Rabbinic Philosophies and the Scientific Method

Other Stuff

Happy Pi Day, Happy Birthday Albert Einstein

Other topics

Astronomy

Calendar

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