Telling a story is a core tradition of Judaism – as we do for Pesach , telling the story every year of the Exodus from Egypt.

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 ...

Ancient Jewish wisdom provides a framework for the ethos of scholarship. The Talmud, which is a compilation of the discussions regarding biblical Jewish law and theology, relays the following ...

Among the more curious acquisitions to cross my desk this week was a pair of rare Talmud volumes that owe their existence to one of the most brilliant – and most vexing – rabbinic figures of the early ...

When Liangda Hu first tried doing Daf Yomi, the practice of studying a page of Talmud per day, he struggled to read it. Hu found the language of English Talmud translations uniquely archaic and, as ...