NEW YORK (JTA) — In trying to understand the often esoteric arguments of the Talmud, people often turn to teachers, dictionaries and a range of other study aids. Jesse Freedman has found another ...

It was chavruta, a method used by Talmud scholars in which pairs of students debate and ask one another questions based on ancient rabbinic texts. “When I read about chavruta, I immediately felt ...

The “Blue Line” demarcating the 120 km-long Israeli-Lebanese border was created in 2000 by UN cartographers to verify Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, which the UN Security Council later certified as ...

The Mishnah was formed due to fear that the Jewish people would lose their unity and beliefs if they were not in the Holy City.

We’ll go back to biblical narrative to focus on the donkey who accompanies Abraham on his journey to sacrifice his son Isaac, and we’ll trace from Palestinian midrash to the Babylonian Talmud a motif ...

Rabbi Leban counts a steady, weekly group of 10 in the Talmud class — which includes Cantor Koll, who made aliyah to Ramat ...

The ner tamid burns continuously to show that God is always present. The Talmud states that when ten or more Jews are gathered in prayer, God is present. Jews refer to this group prayer as a minyan.

The artifact has also provided new insights into the relationship between the local population and Emperor Diocletian, possibly confirming some challenges described in the Jerusalem Talmud ...

Today, Hamas is extorting the Jewish state. There is an unfortunate and long history of kidnapping Jews for ransom and extorting Jewish communities for excessive sums of money. Rabbi Meir of ...

Chabad centers in Metro Detroit will offer a new six-session course, Decoding the Talmud. This course, by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), aims to demystify the intricate world of the ...