Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use ...

(JTA) — When Lazarus Goldschmidt completed his translation of the Talmud into German, the world he had hoped to serve when he started 40 years earlier was in the process of being destroyed.

I saw it through the prism of the Talmud. Israelis in general enjoy arguing and disagreeing about most things and the Talmud is no exception. This great book, for Jews second in importance ...

Brandenburger, Adam M., Harborne W. Stuart Jr., and Barry Nalebuff. "A Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud." Harvard Business School Case 795-087, January 1995. (Revised March 1997.) ...

It was chavruta, a method used by Talmud scholars in which pairs of students debate and ask one another questions based on ancient rabbinic texts. “When I read about chavruta, I immediately felt ...

The Talmud teaches, 'There is no joy without wine,' and yet new data have come to light. More of us should follow the example ...

May we, as Jews and as Americans, rise in holiness, embodying the highest ideals set forth by both Thomas Jefferson and the Sages of the Talmud. We can – and at times must – disagree.

The community is invited to join Rabbi Mendy Lipskier of the Chabad of Fountain Hills in “Decoding the Talmud,” a crash ...