Family photos, cherished sacred books, children’s toys and many more items create a collage like portrait of Jewish ...

Whoever destroys a single life, it is as if they have destroyed the entire world. Whoever saves a single life, it is as if ...

The Talmud, the book of Jewish law, is one of the most challenging religious texts in the world. But it is being read in ever larger numbers, ...

The prospect of studying Talmud for a week seemed intimidating to Noah Rubin-Blose, who grew up culturally Jewish and wasn’t too familiar with the Hebrew letters, much less the central texts of ...

The past decade has seen an upsurge in the study of Talmud by Jewish women. Daf Yomi (“page of the day”) is a system of Talmud study inaugurated in 1920. The brainchild of Rabbi Moshe Menachem ...

Now back from her gap year in Israel, Bentley has completed a remarkable achievement in Jewish text study by reading the Talmud — more than 2,700 double-sided pages of densely printed Hebrew and ...

The Talmud, which is a compilation of the discussions regarding biblical Jewish law and theology, relays the following discussion: Rabbi Elazar quoted Rabbi Chanina, stating that “students of wise ...

An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial choices, similar to the redactors of Jewish Gemara The post Could AI ...

What to know about Hannukah and how it's celebrated around the world Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” ...

A 63-volume collection of interpretation, storytelling and debate about how best to live in accordance with the precepts laid out in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud is the primary source of Jewish ...

The Talmud features a mix of biblical verses, Mishna chapters, and other stories and commentaries. Advertisement “Unfortunately, no original manuscript of the Talmud from the time of its ...