The Jewish text’s pages, filled with mental gymnastics and mystical anecdotes, could serve as a manual for civil discourse.

In 2011, the South Korean Ambassador to Israel said on Israeli public television that “each Korean family has at least one copy of the Talmud.” ...

When Jews mourn the two destructions of Jerusalem and its Holy Temple on the 9th of Av (August 3, 2025 this year) they begin with reading the Biblical Book of Lamentations and feel tears of sorrow, ...

Jewish tradition teaches that each person is created in God’s image. We are called upon to recognize each other’s potential ...

A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...

“I’m not supposed to be here,” seems to have been Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s first thought after he was accidentally added to a group chat. That would be a normal response ...

The stories in the Talmud demonstrate the important difference between the law and the application of the law.

(RNS) — No sooner did Vice President Kamala Harris enter the presidential race than the Republicans began mocking her voice — and more specifically, her laugh. Former President Donald Trump ...

A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum by the family of ...