Rabbi Elazar said: Be diligent in the study of the Torah; and know how to answer an apikores, and know before whom you toil, and that your employer is faithful, for He will pay you the reward of your ...

Rav Shteinman gave a surprising answer. Every morning, we say birchas haTorah, the blessing regarding Torah study. This bracha is one of the few Biblical berachos. (The only other ones are the ...

Some students use a year at the Conservative Yeshiva as a stepping-stone to rabbinical school. JERUSALEM — Walk the streets of Jerusalem on any given weekday morning, and you will discover there’s no ...

From a yacht party to all-night study sessions, there’s no shortage of delightful ways to spend this two-day Jewish holiday Shavuot, the Jewish holiday that commemorates the giving and receiving of ...

The holiday of Shavuot, which begins at sundown this year on Thursday, May 25, is understood by Jewish tradition to be the time when God gave the Israelites the Torah at Mount Sinai. It is ...

(RNS) — It’s a perennial but repeatedly back-burnered issue in Israel: Should haredim (often called “ultra-Orthodox Jews”) who are studying religious texts full time be conscripted into military ...

For most of Jewish history, the havruta system – where two people partner for serious Torah study – was limited to men. In the early 20 th century, two prominent Iraqi personalities – one female and ...

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Every synagogue you’ve ever visited has one. They come in different shapes and sizes but the origin of each comes from the opening of last week’s Torah portion: “You shall further instruct the ...

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 ...