admin | January 9, 2020
CINEMATTERS: N.Y. SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL Isaac Zablocki, who heads the already impressive film program at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, is adding to his cinematic reach with a brand-new festival
admin | January 8, 2020
About 30 years ago, when I was deciding which Yeshivain Israelto attend, the joke that went around was: Whats the difference between Gush,Shaalvimand KBY? When there is a solidarity rallyin support of Jews or the state of Israel, theShaalvimguys will go and cheer during the rally, the KBY guys wont go because itsbittulTorah, and the Gush guys will debate endlessly whether or not they should go and they will end up going and having a lousy time
admin | January 8, 2020
By: Fern Sidman Close to 100,000 members of the Jewish faith gathered on Wednesday afternoon at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey for the 13th Global Siyum HaShas which is sponsored by the Agudath Israel organization. Attendees Conversing at the 13th Siyum Hashas of Daf Yomi Rabbi Yissocher Frand, shlita Siyum HaShas is the celebration of the completion of the Daf Yomi (daily Talmud folio) program, a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries, in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud are covered in sequence. Similar events have recently been held in major cities around the globe, such as Mexico City, while others are scheduled in the next few weeks, according to a CBS News report.
admin | January 7, 2020
If the plaza outside the Jerusalem Convention Center were a manuscript read from on high, the restless, long lines of people scoring the space on Sunday evening could be seen as uneven script, penned in a rush of inspiration. Over 3,000 people were eager to enter and they werent hiding it
admin | January 7, 2020
Come in: Theres Room Now for Women Too in Talmud LearningIlana Blumberg On a cold night in Jerusalem, more than 3300 women and men gathered for the first public celebration of womens Siyum HaShas.
admin | January 7, 2020
In honor of the completion of the 7 1/2-year cycle of Talmud study this month, and the publication of its new translation of the Talmud, Jerusalem-based Koren Publishers recently donated an entire set of its Talmud to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centers chapel.
admin | January 7, 2020
It is not easy to understand what the leftas opposed to liberalsstands for. If you ask a Christian what to read to learn the basics of Christianity, you will be told the Bible. If you ask a (religious) Jew, you will be told the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud.
admin | January 7, 2020
Monday, January 6, is Jewish and Proud Day in the United States.
admin | January 7, 2020
Photo Credit: YouTube How smart are Jews? Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, was enthralled by Norman Lebrechts new book Genius & Anxiety discussing the intellectual achievements of Jewish thinkers, artists and entrepreneurs between 1847 and 1947. So he decided last week to devote a column to this fascinating question: How is it that people who never amounted even to one third of 1% of the worlds population contributed so seminally to so many of its most pathbreaking ideas and innovations?
admin | January 5, 2020
By the age of 46, however, I wanted to see the Talmuds breadth.
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