Time: Wednesday, 4-5 pm
Place: Math and CS Building, room 331 (seminar room)
Date | Speaker | Title |
21 Adar I (Mar. 2) |
Eliyahu Beller (Bar-Ilan University) |
Tequfot, moladot and the miracle of Purim |
5 Adar II (Mar. 16) |
Yair Halevi (MGL, Bar-Ilan University) |
Adar I and II with respect to Bar-Mitzva and Yahrzeit dates |
12 Adar II (Mar. 23) |
Shay Walter (IKHS, Kerem Beyavne) |
Views of Rishonim regarding the length of the year in the Jewish calendar | 19 Adar II (Mar. 30) |
Nachum Dershowitz (Tel-Aviv University) |
Indian lunisolar calendars |
4 Nisan (Apr. 13) |
Yehuda Hershkowitz (Jerusalem) |
The astronomical research of Rabbi David Nieto |
9 Iyar (May 18) |
Haim Halpern (Dept. of Physics, Bar-Ilan University) |
Statistics of the Jewish calendar |
23 Iyar (June 1) |
Magdi Shamuel (Ashdod) |
Karaite predictions of lunar visibility: R. Yehuda Hadasi and "Eshkol Hakofer" |
8 Sivan (June 15) |
Haim Benish (Bney-Beraq) |
Shaa Zemanit according to Terumat Haddeshen |