It is just after 5 a.m. in Perth, Western Australia, when Debbie Posner logs on to the All Daf App to begin her day by studying Talmud. Despite the distance and remoteness of her location – some ...

Ilana Kurshan’s memoir takes readers from her divorce through seven years of pain, resilience, remarriage, and the birth of her children. Why this particular time period? Because these are the years ...

After a barrage of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, January 2020 arrived with a burst of #JewishandProud energy. People gathered at rallies, began to wear their Magen David necklaces and donned their ...

The past ten years have seen an explosion of high-level Talmud study opportunities for Orthodox women: From Nishmat and Lindenbaum in Jerusalem to Drisha and the Stern Talmud Program in New York. But ...

Michelle Farber is organizing the first large-scale ceremony to celebrate women who have finished studying the entire Talmud. (JTA) — Michelle Farber has spent decades teaching Talmud to Jewish women.

I have expressed both publicly and privately my intense sadness and mourning over the recent loss of my teacher, my rebbe, Rabbi Moshe Kahn z”l. That sense of loss unfortunately is now extended to the ...

They have made it less intimidating. The women who have been learning a page of Talmud a day since 2012, when the last seven and a half year Daf Yomi cycle have created a new reality with their study.

“Come in”: There’s Room Now for Women Too in Talmud Learning Ilana Blumberg On a cold night in Jerusalem, more than 3300 women and men gathered for the first public celebration of women’s Siyum HaShas ...

Steinsaltz describes the Talmud as the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. Why shouldn’t it attract wider interest now that it is much more accessible? This year marks the 100th ...

The observant Jewish community was filled with excitement as Talmud study celebrations opened in Israel and around the world. The events, called “Siyum HaShas” take place once every seven and a half ...

A Marin County teen is going online to debunk false, dangerous allegations about the Talmud and what Jews believe.

JTA — Michelle Farber has spent decades teaching Talmud to Jewish women. But when her first child was born, she was relieved it was a boy. “When my son was born, I said, ‘Good, we had a boy first, ...