Ohhh! The wonderful Javier del Barco will be presenting at Penn in November: The Sephardic Bible Bookcraft: Codicology, Layout and Contents in Two Manuscripts at the Library of Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 5:15 - 7:00 pm EST library.upenn.edu/events/sephard…

Rabbi Moshe Hauer, ‘humble bridge-builder,’ longtime Baltimore rabbi, Orthodox Union leader, dies at 60 jns.org/tragic-sudden-…

Exposing hidden/endangered collections, c. 1949: archive.org/details/ldpd_2…

"The boy ʿAṭiyya has been weaned. . . please send sugar and halva. . . he wants to eat sweets all the time, and he is used to being pampered" - late medieval Judaeo-Arabic family letter 👶🍭🍭🍭 geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

I'm just saying, someone should really do a podcast on the amazing JTS library exhibit The Grolier Club. (Some samples here: grolierclub.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…) Who would you recommend? Tag 'em here; I'd be happy to put them in touch with the right people.

I'm more of a text person, myself, but I feel like it would produce excellent content for the instaTock people too. #justsaying

'Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook' by Assaf Bar-Moshe, the first Jewish language handbook published in a OSRJL/UCL Press series, has received a fantastic review in the Journal of Semitic Studies! doi.org/10.1093/jss/fg… #languagelearning #JewishStudies #bookreview

Comparing the clips of the Ve'hi She'amda with that other gathering of people claiming to represent Judaism yesterday is quite something. 🤐

Two more books from my holiday reading: Marc Michael Epstein gives a crash course on reading Jewish art (with many asides along the way) and Sarah Hurwitz (Here All Along) reminds people that Judaism is kind of amazing and definitely worth exploring :) I Read This Over Shabbos™️