The rabbis believed there was a time and place for surprises, writes a scholar at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Nothing brings the online Jewish community together like a wildly original, insanely far-fetched antisemitic conspiracy theory. People still reminisce about the halcyon days of Jewish space lasers, a ...

An anti-Jewish book about the Talmud published last year in the Soviet Union, was criticized in the latest issue of “Science and Religion,” a Soviet atheist magazine, for insufficiently assailing “the ...

Of all the places I expected to meet Elijah the Prophet, the corner of 92nd Street and Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West ...

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 ...

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.

The prospect of studying Talmud for a week seemed intimidating to Noah Rubin-Blose, who grew up culturally Jewish and wasn’t too familiar with the Hebrew letters, much less the central texts of ...

As America is becoming more politically polarized, American Jews are becoming more theologically polarized. According to Pew surveys, four in ten Jewish adults under 30 describe their religion as ...