In a world that celebrates instant success and overnight transformation, the Torah offers a very different vision of ...

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 ...

After a student-led petition collected more than 1,400 signatures, the administration at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women has added Talmud classes back to the course schedule. (JTA) — ...

What has the Talmud ever done for us? This is a pertinent question for those generations of Jewish schoolchildren forced to pore over its text to no discernible effect on their later secular lives.

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Instead of spending their ...

If you asked most people what the Talmud is, they would probably say it’s a book of laws. That is only partially true: It’s an inter-generational discussion about Jewish law, with the formal ...