David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar based in Jerusalem. His nonfiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Literary Matters, and Speculative Nonfiction, and his fiction in ...

If the plaza outside the Jerusalem Convention Center were a manuscript read from on high, the restless, long lines of people scoring the space on Sunday evening could be seen as uneven script, penned ...

The new one-volume edition of the ancient sacred text includes seven new indices, including a subject index of some 27,000 entries covering topics such as labor laws, insurance, prison, abortion, ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — This past week, a group of women gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the completion of a Daf Yomi cycle — more than seven years of daily Talmud study. JERUSALEM (RNS) — For the past ...

“Come in”: There’s Room Now for Women Too in Talmud Learning Ilana Blumberg On a cold night in Jerusalem, more than 3300 women and men gathered for the first public celebration of women’s Siyum HaShas ...

The new cycle of the Day Yomi Yerushalmi, the daily study of a page of the Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud), began today. The Jerusalem Talmud was compiled in the land of Israel in the early ...

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. The People’s Talmud entries are not cumbersome ...

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Among devout Orthodox Jews, the intense study of Talmud is no longer just a man's world. Women are increasingly delving into this central religious work, and American expats in Israel are at the ...

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The Jerusalem event showed the world that women’s scholarship is real and adds immensely to the Jewish world, writes an Orthodox Israeli woman. JERUSALEM (JTA) — What does one wear to the world’s ...