JERUSALEM — Walk the streets of Jerusalem on any given weekday morning, and you will discover there’s no shortage of intensive Torah study in this city that symbolizes the beating heart of the Jewish ...

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 ...

Week by week, portion by portion, we began making our way through the five books of Moses, and then the books of the prophets and the sacred writings. Being a rabbinical student, Torah study was ...

Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the ...

Rabbi Sarah Mulhern has been delighted by how many young Jews are looking for wisdom from ancient texts. “Who would have thought millennials and Gen Z-ers would be knocking on my door to learn Torah ...

Rabbi Elazar said: Be diligent in the study of the Torah; and know how to answer an apikores, and know before whom you toil, and that your employer is faithful, for He will pay you the reward of your ...

Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- A Jewish congregation on Long Island has nearly accomplished something very rare -- the in-depth study of the complete Jewish bible, which contains hundreds of ...

Simchat Torah celebrates the role of the Torah in Jewish history. This holiday is not mandated by the Torah itself but emerged through Jewish custom over time. The practice of completing the Torah ...

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’]” ...

The “Basic Law: Torah Study” proposal caused an uproar for no more than a day. Too bad. It is better to dwell on it for a few more days. Because this is a proposal that obliges Israelis to take a ...

Seeing Torah, The quilt exhibition by Anita Rabinoff-Goldman is a stunning artistic interpretation of a verse from each of the Torah’s 54 portions done with fabric. The small quilts are a visual ...