Prof. David M. Goodblatt (December 20, 1942 – September 25, 2019) received his A.B. from Harvard in 1963, rabbinic ordination and an M.H.L. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America…

Professor Yaakov Elman’s death on June 29, 2018 was a great loss for Talmudic scholarship and Jewish studies more broadly.  Elman was born on August 30, 1943 in the Bronx,…

Joel L. Kraemer, the John Henry Barrows Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School and Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago died in Chicago on Thursday, October 11th,…