JERUSALEM (JTA) — What does one wear to the world’s first women’s Siyum HaShas? The question I posed on social media was a joke, a play on the idea of worrying about surface appearances at any event ...

Singing, dancing and prayers to inspire communal celebration will highlight the gathering of 92,000 Jewish people at MetLife Stadium on New Year's Day, an event that marks the conclusion of a 7 ...

In a powerful and unprecedented display of faith and remembrance, thousands gathered Tuesday at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center for the official Haredi Memorial Day ceremony, where ...

The Rabbinical Alliance of America (RAA/Igud HaRabbanim) recently celebrated its 83rd anniversary with its 37th annual Chai Elul Siyum HaShas. The distinguished event, held at the historic Sephardic ...

For our story on Siyum HaShas, see With poetry and scholarship, Daf Yomi Talmud study grows beyond Orthodox. 6:18 p.m.: On the way to the siyum. Mob scene at Penn Station, with lines stretching around ...

New Year’s Day presented America with a split-screen of Orthodox American Jewish life in 2020. A jubilant 90,000 souls gathered at the MetLife stadium on Wednesday, proudly celebrating the Talmud ...

At the recent Siyum HaShas, celebrating the completion of the 7-and-half-year Daf Yomi (page-a-day) Talmud regimen, that phrase — “unity of the Jewish people” — resounded like a mantra. At the ...

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Participants in the MetLife Stadium Siyum HaShas recite the Minchah prayer. Neither the threat of rain nor heavy traffic prevented the huge throng of enthusiastic participants from attending the 12th ...

The event was called “Sinai Echoes,” and indeed, reverberations of Kabbalat Hatorah filled the air of Jerusalem on this special night. The enthusiastic crowd – men and women, grandparents with ...

Joseph Luria sits in a light rain at MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, as he waits for the start of the celebration Siyum HaShas. The Siyum HaShas, marks the completion ...