Nothing in the Torah is superfluous. From every word – and even from each letter – our sages derived halachic rulings or ...

Recently, I read a column by a religious Jew, full of hatred of fakes. They pray three times a day in a synagogue but steal, break Shabbat, insult, lie, bully, abuse, or hate, all behind closed doors.

In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shows how the women in the Talmud may be ...

Many students of the Talmud never get that initial spark because the language barrier prevents them from ever experiencing the joy of exploring the text’s depth. I hope that this new English edition ...

The Talmud states that at the moment of the Temple’s destruction, as the Jewish people were sent into exile, the cherubim were found embracing each other: “When the invaders entered the ...

The legacy of the Elias Meyer Free School and Talmud Torah in Kolkata’s Bowbazaar, which is celebrating its centennial year, ...