Hundreds of thousands of Jews, men and women, in Israel and all over the world, are finishing these days the seven and half year cycle of Talmud study, called the “Daf Yomi.” Every day a page of the ...

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 ...

Brett Stephens’ recent Op-ed in the NY Times on The Secret of Jewish Genius generated much discussion and controversy. However in my view the most important point of his article was a very brief ...

From the waters of Babylon to the modern page-a-day study practice of Daf Yomi, the Talmud has kept Jewish minds engaged over millennia. Now a new book gives the ancient transcription of Judaism’s ...

The Talmud is a stupendous post-Biblical work which gathers up the results of Jewish legal, ethical, and religious discussions extending over several centuries. This is all that most people know about ...

Avram Mlotek, Orthodox, Co-Founder of Base Hillel: The idea of a Talmud itself is the greatest lesson Jews may learn from its vast text. We live in a time where we often speak only within our echo ...

Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin is President and Professor of Jewish Law at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. For twenty years he served as Chair of the Va'ad Halakhah (Law Committee) ...

Bar Sahar, a student of visual communication design from Israel, visited South Korea six months ago and discovered that many of the citizens are studying Talmud. "The Koreans are very curious about ...

SEOUL, South Korea (JTA) — In 2014, Kim Hye-kyung found herself staring into an educational abyss. The mother of two lives in study-mad South Korea, a nation where parents fork over a combined $17 ...

The Babylonian Talmud. Seder Nezikin. Translated into English under the editorship of Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein. Soncino Press, London. The Talmud is a stupendous post-Biblical work which gathers up the ...