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 ...

An ancient Hebrew proverb, "A prisoner cannot free himself," highlights that individuals facing personal crises often need ...

ROME (RNS) One of Judaism’s most central texts, the Talmud, will be published in Italian for the first time as part of a five-year project that merges tradition with modern technology. Dozens of ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Middle East affairs think tank in Jordan has published a translation of the Babylonian Talmud into Arabic. The Middle East Studies Center in Amman recently completed the 20-volume ...

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From the waters of Babylon to the modern page-a-day study practice of Daf Yomi, the Talmud has kept Jewish minds engaged over millennia. Now a new book gives the ancient transcription of Judaism’s ...

The Talmud had been entrusted to Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog in 1946, while he was recovering Jewish children hiding in non-Jewish homes and monastries. Israeli President Isaac Herzog gifted a ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Neil Danzig, a longtime professor of rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an authority on the post-Talmudic Babylonian scholars known as the Geonim, died July 4.

JERUSALEM (RNS) For some, the notion of delving into the Talmud in English for free with the click of a mouse was something they could only dream of. But now that dream is becoming a reality. On ...

In November, the Taiwanese embassy in Japan detailed a number of tips for Thais visiting Japan. These include minor items like not putting chopsticks in the serving bowl, and more significant ones ...