If the Megilah is Greek to you – that could be okay! The Mishna states that a Jew should hear the reading of the Megilah in Hebrew if he understands Hebrew. But for people who do not understand Hebrew ...

Ancient Jewish wisdom provides a framework for the ethos of scholarship. The Talmud, which is a compilation of the discussions regarding biblical Jewish law and theology, relays the following ...

A microfilm of a rare Talmud manuscript, in the possession of a monastery in Spain, has recently been “rediscovered” by Prof. Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal, Professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University.

Thunder over Europe which ended in nothing less than the splitting of the Catholic Church was the result of a proposed burning of Jewish books in Germany in 1510. Professor Alexander Marx of the ...

What has the Talmud ever done for us? This is a pertinent question for those generations of Jewish schoolchildren forced to pore over its text to no discernible effect on their later secular lives.

If you asked most people what the Talmud is, they would probably say it’s a book of laws. That is only partially true: It’s an inter-generational discussion about Jewish law, with the formal ...

Why should Christians feel interested in the Talmud? M. ERNEST RENAN has achieved one of the greatest literary successes of our age in publishing a life of Jesus. It is not a work of profound research ...

Berkeley's New Lehrhaus has brought L.A.'s Yiddishkayt, the largest Yiddish cultural institution in the West, under its wing.

*Editor’s Note: The Jewish Press Online is proud to present a daily “Brain Teaser,” from The People’s Talmud website. Created by Rabbi Gedalia Gurfein, The People’s Talmud is unique in presentation, ...