The Talmud had been entrusted to Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog in 1946, while he was recovering Jewish children hiding in non-Jewish homes and monastries. The People’s Talmud entries are not cumbersome ...

Most people who study Talmud go with the Babylonian one, and pay scant attention to its older, more difficult cousin — the Jerusalem Talmud. Sefaria, the non-profit library, released a new, online ...

Following the wave of violence and unruly chaos that we have witnessed in the past weeks across the Muslim world in response to a disgraceful yet amateurish satirical production that mocked Islam and ...

From the waters of Babylon to the modern page-a-day study practice of Daf Yomi, the Talmud has kept Jewish minds engaged over millennia. Now a new book gives the ancient transcription of Judaism’s ...

ROME (RNS) One of Judaism’s most central texts, the Talmud, will be published in Italian for the first time as part of a five-year project that merges tradition with modern technology. Dozens of ...

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(JTA) — Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinzaltz, the acclaimed scholar whose landmark translation of the Talmud enabled a vast readership to access one of Judaism’s most canonical texts, has died.

The Jewish educational website will offer a free daily email beginning on Jan. 5 to coincide with the restarting of the cycle of Daf Yomi, a century-old Jewish practice of studying a page of Talmud ...

For some, the notion of delving into the Talmud in English for free with the click of a mouse was something they could only dream of. Now that dream is becoming a reality. Sefaria, a nonprofit ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) For some, the notion of delving into the Talmud in English for free with the click of a mouse was something they could only dream of. But now that dream is becoming a reality. On ...