By MICHAL RAUCHER Of Rutgers University When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a ...

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 ...

(JTA) — The future of Talmud study for women at Yeshiva University remains uncertain after a dean told the student newspaper that the school would not replace a beloved teacher and that too few ...

"I never thought I would live to see this day," said one of the women participating in a recent celebration in Jerusalem. Orthodox Jewish Women Take A New Lead In Talmud Study In Israel Among devout ...

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 ...

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.

(JTA) Beginner and intermediate Talmud courses are back on the course schedule for undergraduate students at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, after an uproar over their cancellation.

Jerusalem — Every morning Michelle Cohen Farber wakes up at 5:50 a.m. feeling energized. She exercises, prays, gets her five kids off to school and, at 8:15 sharp, opens her home in the Tel Aviv ...

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 ...

I and my family are living in Israel for the next 5 months on sabbatical. Though we are living in Jerusalem I commute each day to the city of Lod to learn torah in the kollel of Rabbi Israel Samet. It ...

Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly joining a custom called Daf Yomi, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud, a centuries-old, multivolume collection of rabbinic ...

Among devout Orthodox Jews, the intense study of Talmud is no longer just a man's world. Women are increasingly delving into this central religious work, and American expats in Israel are at the ...