admin | January 14, 2020
Watch: Yaakov Schiffman joined his family in an audience with the Rebbe when his father was terminally ill. The Rebbe proceeded to teach him a page of Talmud, and a lesson that changed his life
admin | January 11, 2020
JERUSALEM (RNS) For the past seven and a half years, six days a week, Michelle Cohen Farber has been teaching one page of Talmud a day a practice known as Daf Yomi to a group of dedicated Orthodox Jewish women in her dining room, and a few hundred other people the vast majority of them women through her podcasts. On Saturday (Jan. 4), they made it to the last page of the Talmud
admin | January 11, 2020
EFRAT, West Bank (JTA)I didnt start learning the Talmud to take a stand or voice an opinion. When I started learning a page of Talmud per day (Daf Yomi) at age 10, I didnt realize that anyone would even notice. To me, it was just something I did, a part of my day that was dedicated to learning Torah with my brother and father
admin | January 9, 2020
By Daniel Cipriani | January 09, 2020 I was born and grew up in Israel to Brooklynite parents who made aliyah, and I grew up knowing Hebrew and the chagim, but my immediate family was secular. After my parents divorced and I came to the States I began to get closer to Judaism and Jewish learning.
admin | January 9, 2020
Becky Syrett, Operations Manager of the SSE Arena in London, expresses what surprised her most about hosting close to 7,000 at Englands Siyum Hashas. Full Story By COLlive staff A letter to the staff of the Siyum Hashas held this week in Londons Wembley Arena has been published in a newspaper expressing admiration to the organizers and the participants. In the letter shared on social media, Becky Syrett, Operations Manager of the SSE Arena in London, expressed her surprise and appreciation of the behavior of the close to 7,000 participants of the event marking the completion of the daily reading and study of one page of Talmud from the 2,711 set, which takes place every 7 years.
admin | January 9, 2020
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL The scene: A classroom in a building next to Jerusalems Great Synagogue. About twenty women in headscarves and wigs sit poring over texts. One, in the back row, is nursing an infant under a cover
admin | January 9, 2020
JERUSALEM (JTA) What does one wear to the worlds first womens Siyum HaShas?
admin | January 9, 2020
Every day for 7 1/2 years, Jews around the world partake in Daf Yomi reading a page of the Talmud daily. Then, when theyre finished, they attend a siyum, which honors the completion of the learning. In 2012, more than 90,000 Jews gathered at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to hold a siyum organized by Agudath Israel of America
admin | January 9, 2020
advertisement The Jerusalem Convention Center lobby on Sunday looked like a strange combination of excursion and high school reunion. The room was filled with high school and religious college girls wearing hoodies and padded backpacks next to older women who looked excited. The age range was wide, as was the choice of headgear, skirt lengths and pants
admin | January 9, 2020
Would the United States government have been within its legal rights to assassinate Osama bin Laden if it had possessed intelligence that bin Laden intended to launch strikes against U.S. targets in the Middle East, or near Washington, D.C., and New York? In November 1990, the FBI raided the New Jersey home of suspected Meir Kahane assassin El Sayyid Nosair an early known al-Qaida associate during which the Feds discovered evidence al-Qaida had plans to blow up New York City skyscrapers.
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