The Talmud tells us Aaron Ohev Shalom v’Rodef Shalom, Aaron was a lover of peace and a pursuer of peace. When two people were ...

This technique isn’t new. The Nazis, among their many methods of psychological torment, would separate family members to ...

When Jews were expelled from Portugal, many moved East to form the Sephardic community we all know, but as many Jews, perhaps ...

Talmud, Midrash and commentaries; Codes and Responsa; Liturgy; Philosophy and Cabbala; Homiletics; Philology and Science. The other donations to the Library and Museum consist of documents of ...

Reading Parshat Shemot, with its emphasis on names and identity, during this momentous week, offers both solace and hope.

He took a club (according to the Talmud) or a sword (according to Targum ... to fight for them as necessary (Bereishit Rabbah 100:5, Midrash Aggadah 50:9) The Egyptian cavalry certainly ...

After a grueling war that has claimed the lives of far too many who were far too young to die, we once again take on the ...

On account of their merits and the merit of their actions, we have the strength to stand against those who seek to harm us in ...

She reveals that she has been studying Talmud since the late 1980s ... my experience from the world of a women’s beit midrash (hall of Torah study) is that one cannot remain indifferent to ...

The course relies on and draws from Jewish studies, religious studies and the study of history. The students explore aspects of Judaism and Jewish history with an emphasis on rabbinic literature.