In Yiddish, this first haircut is called an Upsherin. This translates to “cutting off”. In modern Hebrew, Israeli’s use the ...

Tens of thousands of Jews will open their bright new textbooks and embark on a crash course titled Decoding the Talmud, ...

The chance to partake in an introductory course in Talmudic literacy is an opportunity that should be grasped with great ...

The Talmud purports to be the written version of the oral Torah that Pharisaic and later Orthodox Judaism believed was ...

In his article “Loving the Law.” First Things, 1/1/12, R. R. Reno quotes Meir Soloveichk giving a podcast, the 10-Minute ...

Redeeming hostages is one of the greatest deeds in Judaism. The Talmud, Maimonides, and many rabbis explain that ransoming ...

In this week’s Torah portion of Bo, we finish up the story of the 10 plagues.According to the Midrash, one of the principles that we learn from the plagues is “middah k’negged middah,” measure for ...

Jews have a moral obligation to confront the horror that has unfolded in Gaza, argues the American Jewish journalist and ...

Dr. Shapiro reveals Rabbi Kook's surprising, sometimes radical, and breathtaking ideas, prompting us to rethink what we have ...

American Jewish leaders don’t just insist on Israel’s right to exist. They insist on its right to exist as a Jewish state.