Editor’s note: In her inaugural Knesset speech last week, Ruth Calderon, a secular Talmud scholar and teacher and member of Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, created a national stir with a contemporary ...

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 ...

Today’s Daf Yomi addresses among other matters what constitutes a Torah scholar and how should he (dare I say she) present himself (herself) to the world. We are provided with a lesson in grooming ...

On Monday evening at around 8:00 p.m., a man in his seventies lost consciousness during a Gemara lesson in a synagogue in Kfar Chabad. He fell over sideways onto the person sitting next to him. When ...

(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 ...

One day a week, on the Sabbath, Orthodox Jews render themselves virtually Amish by eschewing technology. But during the rest of the week, they often are quicker than most in embracing electronic ...