To many, last month’s brutal attack on a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, in which five people were killed and 25 were injured, was the logical conclusion of the Right’s increasingly dehumanizing ...
Ilana Kurshan’s memoir takes readers from her divorce through seven years of pain, resilience, remarriage, and the birth of her children. Why this particular time period? Because these are the years ...
The Talmud isn’t the most sacred Jewish book: That’s the Bible. But that 1,500-year-old compendium of rabbinic legal debate, Jewish legend, biblical interpretation and much else is the central text of ...
An anti-Jewish book about the Talmud published last year in the Soviet Union, was criticized in the latest issue of “Science and Religion,” a Soviet atheist magazine, for insufficiently assailing “the ...
(JTA) — Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinzaltz, the acclaimed scholar whose landmark translation of the Talmud enabled a vast readership to access one of Judaism’s most canonical texts, has died.
Gray’s Anatomy. Roget’s Thesaurus. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Some reference books are so famous, they are known simply by the last name of their author. Add to that list Jastrow’s, a dictionary ...
Reading Talmud requires sophisticated textual interpretive abilities and has its own particular characteristics. But how do students learn to read Talmud? How can we assess that process? What can we ...
Daf Yomi, the daily study of the Talmud in its entirety, one page at a time, is an undertaking that lasts 7 1/2 years. When a newly divorced young woman named Ilana Kurshan first entertained the ...
It’s not every day that the sages of the Talmud and the ancient Persian poet, Rumi, cross paths. That’s why I was so ...
Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. Earlier this ...
Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly joining a custom called Daf Yomi, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud, a centuries-old, multivolume collection of rabbinic ...
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