I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a standard part of my Jewish education. I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a ...

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 ...

School massacres have become so commonplace that they scarcely shock us anymore. And yet, occasionally mayhem invades the sanctity of the classroom in a way that can still puncture our complacency. At ...

(JTA) — The future of Talmud study for women at Yeshiva University remains uncertain after a dean told the student newspaper that the school would not replace a beloved teacher and that too few ...

It is a commitment like few others. These are the words that opened an article I penned seven and a half years ago. The time was August 2012. My soldier-sons were still in middle school. My ...

On Monday evening at around 8:00 p.m., a man in his seventies lost consciousness during a Gemara lesson in a synagogue in Kfar Chabad. He fell over sideways onto the person sitting next to him. When ...

The Talmud, says Kahaner, is a "handbook for today's business world": a reminder of balance in a workaholic culture, a treatise on personal responsibility and a call to charity in a society that seems ...

A petition asked the Modern Orthodox university not to curtail lessons for women in one of Judaism’s most fundamental texts. (JTA) — The future of Talmud study for women at Yeshiva University remains ...

Back in 2011, South Korean ambassador to Israel Ma Young-sam sparked a wave of stories about his country’s love affair with Judaism when he told reporters that the Talmud was all but mandatory reading ...