In many Orthodox Jewish settings, including the vast Haredi world, strict adherence to Torah and Jewish law has kept many ...

Tens of thousands of Jews will open their bright new textbooks and embark on a crash course titled Decoding the Talmud, ...

The Talmud purports to be the written version of the oral Torah that Pharisaic and later Orthodox Judaism believed was ...

In Yiddish, this first haircut is called an Upsherin. This translates to “cutting off”. In modern Hebrew, Israeli’s use the ...

In quantum mechanical terms, we might say that bein hashmashot (twilight) represents a superposition of temporal states, just ...

The Levaya of Rabbi Moshe Herson obm, the Head Shliach of New Jersey and Dean of the Rabbinical College of America campus in ...

In an age riven by ethnic and religious conflict, the message of the Torah rings true in our time. To be free, you have to ...

The Talmud then lists a long list of people who were punished measure for measure for their bad deeds. It also emphasizes ...

The commandment of sanctifying the month is not merely a technical instruction for those who establish the calendar on how ...

Education Minister Rafi Peretz, making the announcement on Monday evening, called Noam “a source of inspiration for a whole generation of women studying Torah.” “Her work, her research, and her ...

According to Rabbi Libersohn, about 1,500 Jews live in Barcelona, and the synagogue holds prayers with a minyan [quorum of ten men], about thirty Torah lessons a week, a Talmud Torah, and the ...