Yair Lapid protests on Facebook: An IDF soldier, son of a former MK, was attacked for attempting to buy a Torah book in Israel. Arutz Sheva Staff Jun 11, 2017, 10:32 AM (GMT+3) ...

What does it mean?’ The only way you come to that answer is through the Torah. That is why we’re called the people of the book.” “It’s not the matzah ball and brisket that have kept the Jewish people ...

The words we recite when taking the Torah from the Ark are found in this week’s portion. “And it came to pass, when the Ark set forward, that Moshe (Moses) said ‘rise up O Lord and let Your ...

There are 304,805 letters in the Torah, so if you’re writing the Jewish holy book out by hand — on animal skin, with a quill-style pen whose nib you have to keep filling with ink from a little ...

Is the Torah a Violent Book? It is just as violent as the Koran. Rabbi Aron Moss Nov 26, 2007, 1:35 AM ... But from my reading of the Torah, it is just as violent as the Koran, and maybe more.

So, like the five sisters who challenged tradition and won a more just system for all, a group of female scholars headed by Eskenazi plans to rewrite the book, so to speak, on the Torah.

BEACHWOOD, Ohio — For thousands of years, interpreting Jewish Scripture and tradition was almost exclusively the province of men. Men wrote commentaries on the Five Books of Moses, men preached ...

In this book, the author demonstrates that the great teacher and framer of the 14 concepts was none other than Moses. “Moses was a religious reformer and a social reformer,” he writes.

The reason the book carries this range of approbations is because it cuts across typical boundaries, blending traditional approaches to the development of the Oral Torah or Torah she-baal peh with up- ...

While most modern books have been printed with the assumption that someone owns the content, Torah was given to a people, designed for group ownership and open for universal free use.