An event honoring the 75th anniversary of the Talmudic Encyclopedia took place on December 30th at the residence of the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog. It was especially moving because it was also ...

The Talmud, the book of Jewish law, is one of the most challenging religious texts in the world. But it is being read in ever larger numbers, partly thanks to digital tools that make it easier to ...

This paper identifies modern Yiddish intonation patterns for three different semantic structures and contends that they derive from modern (Ashkenazic) talmudic chant. An examination of the ...

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According to a pious tradition, the unmarried men in a yeshivah were asked to leave the study hall whenever the rabbi began to teach one of the passages of the Talmud that frankly address the subject ...

There are many contradictions within the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses), the Hebrew Bible and the Talmudic literature. In the continuation, I will give only one example of contradiction – of what in my ...

Antonin Scalia had a keen interest in Jewish learning. The late Supreme Court justice and I were classmates and co-editors on the Harvard Law Review between 1958 and our law-school graduation in 1960.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We motivate and introduce a new method of abduction, Matrix Abduction, and apply it to modelling the use of non-deductive inferences in the ...

Teachers at Orot College in Elkanah wish to alleviate Israel’s math problems by imparting algorithms and pedagogical techniques developed by Jewish Sages over the generations. The reason for the new ...

– All children of the ‘goyim’ (Gentiles) are animals. The Talmud , Yebamoth 98a Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home ...

If former President Trump incited a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, was he doing so as the sitting president, or as a private citizen? This may seem rather beside the point — the federal case against ...