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 ...
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 ...
If you were to peek inside the window of a building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Sunday night, you would find a group of young Jews engrossed in Talmud study. Their clothing would be conservative, ...
"I never thought I would live to see this day," said one of the women participating in a recent celebration in Jerusalem. Orthodox Jewish Women Take A New Lead In Talmud Study In Israel Among devout ...
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 ...
They have made it less intimidating. The women who have been learning a page of Talmud a day since 2012, when the last seven and a half year Daf Yomi cycle have created a new reality with their study.
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 ...
I and my family are living in Israel for the next 5 months on sabbatical. Though we are living in Jerusalem I commute each day to the city of Lod to learn torah in the kollel of Rabbi Israel Samet. It ...
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 ...
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 ...