It is just after 5 a.m. in Perth, Western Australia, when Debbie Posner logs on to the All Daf App to begin her day by studying Talmud. Despite the distance and remoteness of her location – some ...
New Year's Day 2020 saw a crowd of over 90,000 assemble in freezing temperatures at New Jersey's Metlife Stadium. Rather than the usual football game, they had come for the " Siyum ha-Shas of Daf yomi ...
Jerusalem — Every morning Michelle Cohen Farber wakes up at 5:50 a.m. feeling energized. She exercises, prays, gets her five kids off to school and, at 8:15 sharp, opens her home in the Tel Aviv ...
Among devout Orthodox Jews, the intense study of Talmud is no longer just a man's world. Women are increasingly delving into this central religious work, and American expats in Israel are at the ...
After a barrage of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, January 2020 arrived with a burst of #JewishandProud energy. People gathered at rallies, began to wear their Magen David necklaces and donned their ...
Unlike Western literature, there is no correct (or incorrect way) to enter the world of Talmud. It is a vast sea, and wherever you are, that is the spot where you enter the sea. Last month, we entered ...
JERUSALEM (RNS) — This past week, a group of women gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the completion of a Daf Yomi cycle — more than seven years of daily Talmud study. JERUSALEM (RNS) — For the past ...
Ephraim Mirvis angered some segments of the Orthodox Jewish community in 2018 when he released a guide for Jewish day schools on how to support LGBTQ students. (JTA) — British Chief Rabbi Ephraim ...
Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly joining a custom called Daf Yomi, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud, a centuries-old, multivolume collection of rabbinic ...
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