Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Between the hallways of the West Wing, a place where almost no one is allowed to enter, Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer sat and ...

I truly am excited to visit my daughter next week in Israel. Currently, she is studying at Migdal Oz Seminary. She happens to love learning Gemara so she felt that this was the right seminary for her.

While we’ve certainly come a long way since the argument I had with my boyfriend nearly 25 years ago, we still have a long way to go to achieve true Talmudic equality. The mind’s selective ability to ...

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 ...

Jerusalem Post / Israel News A 21st-century beit midrash One Daf Yomi class for women shows how natural Gemara studies can be for both sexes One Daf Yomi class for women (photo credit: ARDON BAR-HAMA) ...

When Sharon Stein Merkin attended a Modern Orthodox religious day school in Los Angeles, she didn’t learn Mishna or Gemara, the Oral law, because her school, like most in the 1980s and ’90s, didn’t ...

Which book should be at the core of Jewish education? Most educators would probably point to the Bible without thinking twice, but Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz happens to disagree. While not doubting the ...

Last month, when Israel had just over a dozen COVID-19 patients, staff at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center received notice that a new isolation ward to treat prospective coronavirus patients ...