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More than 6,500 Israeli academics and teachers, along with students' parents, signed a petition on Monday evening demanding ...
More than 6,500 Israeli academics and teachers, along with students' parents, signed a petition on Monday evening demanding that the Israeli government ensure the return of hostages in Gaza, even at ...
“It was taught in a beraita, ‘Do not place a stumbling block in front of a blind man’ (Vayikra 19:14). This verse refers to one who hits his big son (‘beno ha-godol’).” (Moed Kattan 17a).
We learn from Ursula, the friend of all Europeans, that Europe’s roots are in the Talmud. Thanks, but we can do without it. To each his own—An old video of the President of the European Commission has ...
More than the miracles, or the crossing of the Red Sea, or the revelation of God in the desert (His presence was already ...
Interestingly, the idea that the Jews killed Jesus is also found in Jewish religious literature. In tractate Sanhedrin of the ...
The truth that one knows from discipline is a tough concept. In every discipline there are a set of laws, you might say, that ...
Originally, Menashe behaved so badly that he seemed to have forfeited his place in the World to Come. But then he did such teshuva that not only did he earn a place in the World to Come, but G-d himse ...
The legacy of the Elias Meyer Free School and Talmud Torah in Kolkata’s Bowbazaar, which is celebrating its centennial year, is intertwined with that of the small Baghdadi-Jewish community that ...
During the period of the Talmud, there was constant friction between Eretz Yisrael sages and those in Babylon – the great Jewish center of learning in exile. The Jerusalem Talmud (Sanhedrin 3:5 ...