According to Maeir, these highly elaborate manuscripts present a resemblance to the Talmud. “The Talmud is a very interesting parallel,” he said. “It was written in Aramaic by Jews living ...

Even the Jewish laws prohibiting lashon hara in strong terms, have exceptions. The sages of the Talmud knew that sometimes we need to know what’s going on, regardless of how we find out.

Instead of spending their free periods doing homework or hanging out with friends, Talia Beck and Jordana Bruckheimer like to talk about what they learned that day in Talmud. It’s a ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and cultural language. Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives.