According to a new study, the sages "sought ways to allow Jewish farmers to remain part of the wine industry without compromising Halacha.” Jewish sages in Late Antiquity were not detached from the ...

A new study conducted at University of Haifa, published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, reveals that Jewish sages in Late Antiquity were actively involved in viticulture and managed ...

JTA — Rabbi Neil Danzig, a longtime professor of rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an authority on the post-Talmudic Babylonian scholars known as the Geonim, died July 4. He ...

Dozens of colonists performed Talmudic rituals Monday morning at several gates of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city of Jerusalem, under heavy protection from Israeli occupation forces.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Vered Noam of Tel Aviv University has been awarded the Israel Prize in Talmudic Studies — the first time that a woman has received the award. Noam, current chair of the university’s ...

(RNS) — In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shows how the women in the Talmud ...

Rabbi Nissan Kornfeld of Chabad Mercer Island will offer “Decoding the Talmud,” a new six-session course by the acclaimed Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 27. The ...

Share A Mysterious Guest for Dinner on Facebook Share A Mysterious Guest for Dinner on LinkedIn Share A Mysterious Guest for Dinner on Twitter Aggadic stories in the Talmud offer profound insights ...

The John P. Robarts Research Library, commonly referred to as Robarts Library, is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of Toronto Libraries and the largest individual ...

Young Baruch de Spinoza is a successful merchant, would-be philosopher, and heir apparent to Saul Mortera, chief Rabbi of Amsterdam. But Amsterdam's Jews have made a fateful arrangement with the city: ...

A petition asked the Modern Orthodox university not to curtail lessons for women in one of Judaism’s most fundamental texts. (JTA) — The future of Talmud study for women at Yeshiva University remains ...