Blogs About Jews and Judaism: Jewish Bloggers, Gil Student, Daniel Sieradski, Luke Ford, Philip Weiss, J-Blogosphere, Ari Enkin

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jewish Bloggers, Gil Student, Daniel Sieradski, Luke Ford, Philip Weiss, J-Blogosphere, Ari Enkin, Yeshiva ... Show more Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jewish Bloggers, Gil Student, Daniel Sieradski, Luke Ford, Philip Weiss, J-Blogosphere, Ari Enkin, Yeshiva World News, Shmarya Rosenberg, Rachel Barenblat, Steven I. Weiss, Campusj, Vosizneias. Excerpt: Gil Ofer Student (born August 8, 1972) is the Managing Editor of OU Press, and an Orthodox Jewish blogger who writes about the interface between different facets of Judaism, specifically Orthodox Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism, including modern, controversial topics. He is an ordained non-pulpit serving Orthodox rabbi. Student was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where his parents still live. In his youth, he attended a Conservative Jewish synagogue. He credits his attendance of an Orthodox Jewish high school for his now being "better off". He is an alumnus of Solomon Schechter elementary school and Frisch School, and a baal teshuva. A 1994 graduate of Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, Gil Student is listed in the 2005 alumni directory as a rabbi and a quantitative analyst who works in financial reinsurance and lives in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn, New York and is a member of the Kehilas Marine Park synagogue, led by Rabbi Baruch Pesach Mendelson. He is married and has four children. Student's writings appear mainly on the Internet on his blog, Hirhurim Musings. They also appear in newspapers and journals on a variety of Judaic topics including Jewish medical ethics and Yeshiva University. The Hirhurim blog was ranked "Best Jewish Religion Blog" and #3 in categories "Best Series" and "Best Overall Blog" for 2005 by The Jerusalem Post and has been cited in The Wall Street Journal for declining to run an ad for "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris. He has received other recognition for his blogging and views by Yeshiva Un... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3537583 Hide