What is the path to Divine wisdom? Torah study, not only the revealed but the hidden. It is not only a commandment, but a ...

Parashat Hashavuah Study Join an insightful discussion of the weekly Torah portion. Free. Saturday 8:30 a.m. (714) 730-9693 or http://www.cbi18.orgCongregation B ...

Sara Wolkenfeld, the chief learning officer of the online database of Jewish text, reflects on a decade of free, open-source learning. With one search I found a helpful list of sources featuring ...

On Sukkot and during the year 5782, we must return to the basics. The big question facing us is: how can observant Jews successfully elevate their lives, thus serving as an example and role model for ...

JOLIET, Ill. - Which of the 10 Commandments is most important to you? That was a question Rabbi Charles Rubovits posed two weeks ago at "Lunch and Learn," a group of 10 to 20 members of various faiths ...

“Kollel should be a meritocracy — a place for the few who are truly destined for scholarship, not a refuge for the unwilling. Torah learning should inspire men to serve, to build, to defend, to uplift ...

NEW YORK (JTA) – Several years ago, Rabbi Shlomo Levin hit on a new way to attract students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to classes at his nearby Orthodox synagogue. Instead of spending ...

Temple Emanu-El is expanding its offerings on the northwest side to include monthly Shabbat morning Torah study and Shabbat services starting this Saturday at the Jewish Federation Northwest, 190 W.

We saw that many commentaries link Rebbi Yehoshua’s words to Rebbi Nechunya’s earlier assertion that Torah scholars are exempted from taxes and other communal responsibilities (Avot 3:5. See also ...

The sotah laws (Numbers 5:11–31) may explain a troublesome comment made by Rabbi Eliezer in the Talmud: “Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her tiflut [sometimes translated as ‘obscenity’]” ...

Several years ago, Rabbi Shlomo Levin hit on a new way to attract students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to classes at his nearby Orthodox synagogue. Instead of spending money on ...