The People’s Talmud entries are not cumbersome translations of the Talmud but narratives that express the Talmud’s point in the language of today. The body and the soul of the Jewish nation are in ...

Ancient Jewish wisdom provides a framework for the ethos of scholarship. The Talmud, which is a compilation of the discussions regarding biblical Jewish law and theology, relays the following ...

As we celebrate Shavuot, a festival commemorating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, it’s fitting to reflect on the enduring wisdom of our ancient texts and how they continue to illuminate our ...

ROME (AFP) — A first volume released under a groundbreaking project to translate the Talmud into Italian has become an unexpected best-seller, its publisher said Friday. A first print run of 2,000 ...

It is rage-inducing to know that my money gets spent on stipends for boys in black hats to study for lifetimes issues like how certain physical attributes can be used as grounds for divorce. As though ...

(RNS) — In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shows how the women in the Talmud ...

It’s a common rule of public speaking: Tell a joke, and you loosen up the crowd. This idea isn’t a recent one–it can actually be found in the Talmud. “Before he began his lesson to the scholars,” says ...

I have visited Israel many times and I even lived there for a few months on Sabbatical some years ago yet on this trip I saw a side of Israel I had never seen before. I saw it through the prism of the ...