It is November 10, 1938. It’s in a small city in Germany. It is the night after Kristalnacht, the night of broken glass that ushered in the mass roundups and the killings that would become the ...

The Talmud is almost as sacred to Jews as Scripture, but by no means does every Jew know what is in it. English editions of the 20-volume compilation of law and learning run to several hundred dollars ...

Believers is a series running throughout April, examining different facets of faith and religion among young people. In this op-ed, Rabbi Emily Cohen explores some of the many ways people define ...

On December 31, 1930, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency published a rousing call for the renewed study of the Talmud, the classical Jewish literary-legal compendium. It was written by none other than ...

Rabbi Gedaliah Gurfein is the creator of the People’s Talmud, a remarkable online resource that makes the Talmud accessible to all who are curious, even those with little Jewish knowledge. Rabbi ...

The Babylonian Talmud. Seder Nezikin. Translated into English under the editorship of Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein. Soncino Press, London. The Talmud is a stupendous post-Biblical work which gathers up the ...

Christians have done their best and worst to convert the Jews, with a range of persuasions running from sweet reasonableness to slow torture. The Jews, on the other hand, seem to have no missionary ...