Blog posts written for the BSHM appear below.
First Posted Monday, December 19, 2022 / Yom sheni, 25 Kislev, 5783.
David Orenstein, Emeritus, Danforth CTI,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Member Education Committee
david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
You might remember that, on December 12, I blogged here that:
Yom sheni, 18 Kislev, 5783.
David Orenstein, Emeritus, Danforth CTI,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
BSHM Education Committee Member
david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
First Posted Monday, November 28, 2022 / Yom sheni, 4 Kislev, 5783.
David Orenstein, Emeritus, Danforth CTI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
First Posted Monday, November 21, 2022 / Yom sheni, 27 Cheshvan, 5783.
David Orenstein, Emeritus, Danforth CTI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
On a Sunday evening, about a month ago, (October 16, 2022 / Yom sheni, 22 Tishrei, 5783), I went to synagogue in-person (but masked) to join our observance of Shemeni Atzeret and the celebration of Simchat Torah.
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 / Yom Shlishi, 10 Elul, 5782.
David Orenstein, Toronto, Canada
david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
Dydd Llun, y cynta Awst / Emancipation Day, Monday, August 1, 2022 / Yom Sheni, 4 Av, 5782.
David Orenstein, Toronto, Canada david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
Today is Emancipation Day, commemorating the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1834 on August 1 that year. It’s a day that has been celebrated here in Ontario for well over a hundred years and is on its way to official Canada-wide recognition.
Dydd Llun, y 18fed Gorffenaf / Monday, July 18, 2022 / Yom Sheni, 19 Tammuz, 5782.
David Orenstein, Toronto, Canada
david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
Last week I said that “I should learn how to count in the six modern Celtic languages: Manx, Cornish, Breton, Welsh, Gaelic, Erse. Maybe even in Scots.”
Yom Sheni, 12 Tammuz, 5782.
David Orenstein, Toronto, Canada
david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
You might have noted that my blog posts are dated both in English, on the Gregorian Calendar, and in Hebrew (though in Roman letters), on the Jewish Calendar.
/ Yom sheni, 21 Sivan, 5782
by David Orenstein, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca
According to this morning’s online Le Monde, consulted at 7:00 am EDT = 12:00 Noon BST, 2010 Fields Medallist, Cédric Villani, lost his bid for re-election, as the candidate of the left-wing collation La Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale (NUPES), by a hair.
/ Yom revi’i, 16 Sivan, 5782
by David Orenstein, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. david.orenstein@alumni.utoronto.ca.
Previously I was posting and sharing announcements about the forthcoming, virtual, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CSHPM), 2022 Annual Conference (May 13–15, 2022), at the umbrella CFHSS Congress (May 12-20, 2022).