Talmud

Candace Owens urges audience read antisemitic book, asserts Jews controlled slave trade

According to Owens, Jews like Shapiro supposedly believed that they were "contract lords and that people are not allowed to violate contracts or you will ruin them for years."

Candace Owens urges audience read antisemitic book, asserts Jews controlled slave trade
Former high Court president Aharon Barak is seen at a conference of the Israeli Association of Public Law (IAPL) in Haifa, earleir this month. Arguments over judicial overreach and activism in Israel have been ongoing for years, the writer notes.

Israel’s 'supreme' democracy: Who really decides the nation’s values - opinion

Candles are lit on the eighth night, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, last Hanukkah. The main idea of the holiday is the spiritual illumination of the public sphere, says the writer.

Seeing our brothers’ plight: The light Hanukkah demands we bring into the world - opinion

Most conflicts do not stem from malice but from a lack of genuine understanding.

Parashat Vayeshev: Bringing hearts closer


Meet the TikTok star making Daf Yomi relatable for millennials, Gen Z

Miriam Anzovin is the millennial TikToker making Gemara more accessible on one of today's leading social media platforms.

 Miriam Anzovin

Judaism's take on the darkness that winter brings

It is hardly a coincidence that for thousands of years, many cultures and religions have held festivals of light at this time of the year.

 WHILE IT is the darkest time of the year, in the next instant, the move toward lightening begins.

Bringing the Talmud to life - book review

The book The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave expresses less-studied emotional, interpersonal aspects of the rabbis in the Talmud.

Snake (illustrative)

German Talmud translation from 1935 goes online

The translation is a way to make Jewish texts available to a new generation of German Jews.

"Go and observe what the people are doing.” – Babylonian Talmud

Meet the Jewish couple funding Christian missionary hospitals in Africa

“We feel animated by the Talmudic teaching that saving a single life is saving a world,” said Rabbi Erica Gerson.

A volunteer receives an injection in a human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020

In Israel, a chicken farm released special-edition eggs to mark egg-related Talmud study milestone

“We will return to you, Tractate Beitzah,” the eggs read in Hebrew. “Be strong and take courage, from the chicken coops of Kedumim.”

Michelle Cohen Farber's Daf Yomi women group studying Talmud in Ran'ana.

Simhat Torah was included as a 'new' holiday. Could we add more?

If a holiday can be added to the Hebrew calendar millennia after Revelation, why can we not add holidays that address the issues of our own time and be recognized by all Jews?

A SIMHAT Torah flag, waved jauntily during hakafot.

Acher and the difficulties of teshuvah

We all have different reactions to severe trauma. Some Jews lose their faith. Others are strengthened by it. But we must realize that after the Shoah and Israel's founding nothing will be the same.

Jewish American World War II veterans stand next to the barbed wire fence of the Dachau concentration camp at the 62th memorial of its liberation in May 2007.

Parashat Shoftim: Justice, justice

What is the significance of the double use of the word “justice”?

Parshat Shoftim

Talmudic-era coin found in the Galilee by family on a trip

A coin dating back to the Talmudic time was found by a family visiting the Korazim National Park in the Galilee, the Nature and Parks Authority announced Tuesday.

Talmudic-era coin found in the Galilee by family on a trip