The Mishna, redacted by Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi around the turn of the second century, is frequently looked upon as a legalistic, dry and even tedious work. Nagen, in his aptly named The Soul of the ...

Called the Acheinu WorldWide Jewish Unity Program, the initiative is being spearheaded by Rabbi Reuven Taragin and will see Jews from 50 countries read the entire Mishna. MEN STUDY the Talmud and ...

In “The Soul of the Mishna”, Rabbi Dr Yakov Nagen brings the Mishna to life in a way that few teachers have done. He explains in his Introduction: “The body of the Mishna is the halakha, the law; in ...

Humorist Mishna Wolff, who is white, says she grew up in an all-black neighborhood and her father, who is also white, like her, thought he was black. Brendan Newnam, of Dinner Party Download, talks ...

After studying Mishna Berurah on and off for 22 years, I finally completed it in Eretz Yisrael. This sefer was written by the Chafetz Chaim, whose real name was Rav Meir Kagan. Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan ...

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A friend recently told me that his son came home from pre-K proclaiming that it’s getting dark because the sun goes around the Earth and now, at sunset, the sun is going behind us. Lest he think it ...

Mishna Wolff reflects on building a narrative based on the Whodunnit game: "What spoke to me about the video game was the arguing." By Trilby Beresford Associate Editor The horror-comedy, an ...

The fact that Seattle doesn’t acknowledge its black side enough, and the meta-fact that the topic remains uncomfortable and even taboo in white Seattle conversations, are big parts of why Mishna Wolff ...

(JTA) — As an avid book collector who operates an independent Jewish press, Larry Yudelson was excited to learn that a new, annotated version of the Mishnah, the earliest compendium of Oral Torah, was ...

In her book, I'm Down: A Memoir, author Mishna Wolff tells the story of how her father moved their white family into a black neighborhood to be closer to African-American culture. Today, we hear what ...

EXCLUSIVE: Through its first-look film deal at Universal Pictures, 87North has set up Mrs. K, a re-imagining of Yuhang Ho’s 2016 Malaysian-Hong Kong cult hit, at the studio. Author and humorist Mishna ...