New Course With Rabbi Manis Friedman to Confront the Questions Everyone Is Asking About Jews — But Few Are Willing to Answer.
Three women sat for an exam administered by Israel’s Rabbinate, the latest sign of growing recognition for women’s religious ...
An anti-Jewish book about the Talmud published last year in the Soviet Union, was criticized in the latest issue of “Science and Religion,” a Soviet atheist magazine, for insufficiently assailing “the ...
Nothing brings the online Jewish community together like a wildly original, insanely far-fetched antisemitic conspiracy theory. People still reminisce about the halcyon days of Jewish space lasers, a ...
As a rabbi who has spent many years learning and teaching Talmud to life to students of all ages and backgrounds, many people have asked me to comment on Miriam Anzovin’s Daf Reactions on TikTok. As I ...
What has the Talmud ever done for us? This is a pertinent question for those generations of Jewish schoolchildren forced to pore over its text to no discernible effect on their later secular lives.
If you asked most people what the Talmud is, they would probably say it’s a book of laws. That is only partially true: It’s an inter-generational discussion about Jewish law, with the formal ...
The longtime Jewish Theological Seminary professor was an expert on the Babylonian rabbis and leaders known as Geonim. Rabbi Neil Danzig, a longtime professor of rabbinics at the Jewish Theological ...
An Israeli man completed a Talmudic tractate atop Mount Everest, but fell short of setting a world record. Moshe Frei, 56, of Petah Tikva, was trekking Mount Everest with three friends when he ...