I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a standard part of my Jewish education. I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a ...

LESSONS FROM THE PAST: TutorSpree CEO and co-founder Aaron Harris opines on what our schools and classrooms can learn from Talmud class and chevruta study, where he spent a good chunk of his time ...

Avram Mlotek, Orthodox, Co-Founder of Base Hillel: The idea of a Talmud itself is the greatest lesson Jews may learn from its vast text. We live in a time where we often speak only within our echo ...

It is a commitment like few others. These are the words that opened an article I penned seven and a half years ago. The time was August 2012. My soldier-sons were still in middle school. My ...

Rabbi Halivni’s magnum opus is Mekorot Umesorot (Sources and Traditions), a monumental 10-volume, source-critical commentary on the Talmud in Hebrew, which shows that the Talmud consists of layers, ...

(RNS) — It’s not often in the “white hot arc of the moment,” as my college journalism professor referred to the news cycle, that we have an opportunity to consider the state of discourse itself. Yet ...

To Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, the ultra-contemporary Walt Disney Concert Hall was an apt setting to hold a ceremony Tuesday marking the end of the 7 1/2 -year cycle of reading the ancient texts of the ...

This article is part of a new series called “On Persuasion.” We asked thought leaders to consider what persuasion means to them. What works in terms of persuading people? Is it moot in 2020? What is ...

When Henry Lowenthal used to prepare for business trips, he’d pack a bag full of typical travel sundries — along with a photocopied packet of pages from the Talmud. As a top financial officer of ...

The Talmud, says Kahaner, is a "handbook for today's business world": a reminder of balance in a workaholic culture, a treatise on personal responsibility and a call to charity in a society that seems ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me. By Michael David Lukas In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over ...