NEW YORK (JTA) — For centuries, studying a page of the Talmud has come with a bevy of barriers to entry. Written mostly in Aramaic, the Talmud in its most commonly printed form also lacks punctuation ...

Sefaria, a website that aims to put the nearly infinite Jewish canon online for free, has published an acclaimed translation of the Talmud in English. NEW YORK (JTA) — For centuries, studying a page ...

Maggie Anton is the award-winning author of “Rashi's Daughters,” historical novels set in the household of the great medieval Jewish scholar, whose daughters studied Talmud when these sacred texts ...

The Talmud offers another 30 such expositions of names of sages that are connected to a Torah teaching they taught. It would seem that that we have here a witty pun created deftly on the spur of the ...

Maggie Anton is the award-winning author of “Rashi's Daughters,” historical novels set in the household of the great medieval Jewish scholar, whose daughters studied Talmud when these sacred texts ...

The Talmud is a work rich in both Halacha (Jewish law) and Aggada (Jewish lore). These two fields are masterfully woven, creating a singular text that stimulates the legal mind while stirring 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 ...

I didn’t grow up particularly religious, but started becoming more involved when I was around 13 or 14 years old. I remember that I always believed in G-d and felt deeply connected somehow, but I just ...

In 1240, King Louis IX of France took the unusual step of holding a trial for the Talmud. Books rarely receive judicial proceedings, but Pope Gregory IX was urging European leaders to take action ...