We are living in an age when world leaders regularly deny historical facts — and therefore, defining what the word “lie” means is an urgent concern. It’s also an ancient concern. Both the Torah and ...

Talmud Torah of St. Paul Day School will remain open this fall in a smaller size, serving grades K-4. Leaders of the school, in the city’s Highland Park neighborhood, had been trying to get enrollment ...

El Al, the Israeli National Airline, has begun to offer Torah, Talmud and Jewish law lessons on its long-haul flights, via a platform specially prepared for it by Yeshiva University, an Orthodox ...

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(JTA) — Is it appropriate to call an ancient rabbi a “legendary hottie”? To use “thirst” in the online sense? To translate one Talmudic voice replying to another as, “Oh my God, what the actual f–k is ...

Dr. Golub, director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Cincinnati, wrote this open letter in reply to an article by Dr. Abba Hillel Silver in the Bulletin November 18. Dr. Silver’s article attracted ...

I never met Rav Moshe Kahn, but I feel a tremendous sense of loss by his passing. My daughter, Elisheva, had the fortune of being in his shiur every semester that she was in Stern College. His shiur ...

A mishnah we recite every morning (Pe’ah 1:1) lists things “that have no measure” – i.e., whose ultimate reward is in the World to Come – including lovingkindness, honoring one’s parents, and the ...

It is rage-inducing to know that my money gets spent on stipends for boys in black hats to study for lifetimes issues like how certain physical attributes can be used as grounds for divorce. As though ...

EAST RUTHERFORD — Nearly 100,000 Orthodox Jews gathered at MetLife Stadium tonight for the 12th Siyum Hashas, a celebration recognizing the completion of Talmud study. Sponsored by Agudath Israel of ...