Rabbi Meni Even-Israel watched his father finish the Gemara at 73 and immediately ask for a new "mission," resulting in a ...

Ancient Jewish wisdom provides a framework for the ethos of scholarship. The Talmud, which is a compilation of the discussions regarding biblical Jewish law and theology, relays the following ...

Thunder over Europe which ended in nothing less than the splitting of the Catholic Church was the result of a proposed burning of Jewish books in Germany in 1510. Professor Alexander Marx of the ...

In 1908, conservators in Leiden peeled back the binding of a 1557 Italian Hebrew book and unexpectedly exposed fragments of a forgotten Talmud edition from Faro. The colophon they uncovered not only ...

A repentant young Jewish inmate of McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary has resolved to teach himself to read the Bible in the original Hebrew, he revealed in a letter to Rabbi Max J. Wohgelernter, ...

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.

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 ...

If the Megilah is Greek to you – that could be okay! The Mishna states that a Jew should hear the reading of the Megilah in Hebrew if he understands Hebrew. But for people who do not understand Hebrew ...

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 ...

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 ...