It is November 10, 1938. It’s in a small city in Germany. It is the night after Kristalnacht, the night of broken glass that ushered in the mass roundups and the killings that would become the ...

The Talmud is almost as sacred to Jews as Scripture, but by no means does every Jew know what is in it. English editions of the 20-volume compilation of law and learning run to several hundred dollars ...

Why should Christians feel interested in the Talmud? M. ERNEST RENAN has achieved one of the greatest literary successes of our age in publishing a life of Jesus. It is not a work of profound research ...

Thanks to the frantic news cycle surrounding the tunnel a group of Hasidic men dug under Chabad’s main synagogue in Brooklyn, there’s a renewed interest online in Orthodox Judaism — and not in a good ...

Did I truly believe those traditions were still relevant?My answer is simple: Judaism survived because of its traditions, not ...

Believers is a series running throughout April, examining different facets of faith and religion among young people. In this op-ed, Rabbi Emily Cohen explores some of the many ways people define ...

On December 31, 1930, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency published a rousing call for the renewed study of the Talmud, the classical Jewish literary-legal compendium. It was written by none other than ...

Neusner, author or editor of nearly a thousand books (yes, you read that correctly), is a renowned Jewish scholar who has devoted his impressive career to the study of Judaism. His documentary studies ...

Christians have done their best and worst to convert the Jews, with a range of persuasions running from sweet reasonableness to slow torture. The Jews, on the other hand, seem to have no missionary ...