El Al, the Israeli National Airline, has begun to offer Torah, Talmud and Jewish law lessons on its long-haul flights, via a platform specially prepared for it by Yeshiva University, an Orthodox ...

Indeed Talmud, and the mountains of halachic verbiage, decisions and counter decisions that continue to emerge from its practitioners flןקד in the face of what the Torah itself tells us.

On a recent weekday morning, Rabbi Greg Wall blew a 3-foot-long shofar off the coast of Norwalk, Connecticut. It was part of a Talmud class he teaches regularly aboard a 23-foot sailboat named Enough.

Family photos, cherished sacred books, children’s toys and many more items create a collage like portrait of Jewish ...

While the Torah is more about wars and kings, the Talmud is domestic. I want the best people - the writers, the poets, the scriptwriters for TV - the people who are making Jewish culture [to read it].

Starting with the Torah, Judaism has been emphasizing that for nearly 4,000 ... (See the Babylonian Talmud tractate Shabbat 108b.) To the First Century CE sage Hillel, washing your body is a ...

Torah, our religious classic par excellence, is the basic study in every Talmud Torah and is the main criterion for graduation. The prophets, early and latter, are taught in their original ...

While the Talmud elsewhere mentions that non-Jews were taught Torah, some of those cases were clearly under the coercive pressure of the dominant rulers.

The first thing that intrigued me about Talmud Reclaimed by Rabbi Shmuel Phillips are the haskamos. Rarely does one encounter a book that is recommended by such a wide spectrum of individuals ...

Miriam Anzovin's viral Talmud commentaries continue in a long and essential Jewish tradition, writes David Zvi Kalman.

Both the Torah and the Talmud seem a bit clairvoyant these days in their interest in delineating what a lie is, when it’s okay to lie and what the punishment for lying might be.

NEW YORK — Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, who took a small wedding-invitation print shop and turned it into ArtScroll Mesorah, the leading publisher of prayer books and volumes of Torah and Talmud in the ...