Despite its benefits, the Talmud portfolio is highly volatile and lacks a risk-free component, making it potentially unsuitable for risk-averse investors. Clients satisfied with the Talmud ...

In case of abuse, “What is Hanukkah?” (B.T. Shabbat, 21b:10). The Talmud asks no comparable question about any other holiday, presumably because every other holiday to date was mentioned in ...

Rabbi David Golinkin’s responsum on the subject suggests that in the Talmud, Samuel may not have ... dangerously close to becoming the Jewish version of what we criticize in extreme ...

That’s protesting the state of Israel and the flag … Was it burning the Talmud? Which is not even the real version, it’s the English version … the Talmud is like this many volumes.” ...

Like several dozen volumes, depending on the version and typeface — as many ... where they study a new page (front and back) of the Talmud each day; the cycle takes seven and a half years.

The 1.0 version of the People’s Talmud was launched in Dubai three years ago on Hanukkah. The first alpha version was unveiled at the Jewish Federation’s General Assembly in Tel Aviv in 2018.

The prospect of studying Talmud for a week seemed intimidating to Noah Rubin-Blose, who grew up culturally Jewish and wasn’t too familiar with the Hebrew letters, much less the central texts of ...

A departure from past scholarship, which has played down the stories as unreliable distortions of the historical Jesus, Jesus in the Talmud posits a much more deliberate agenda behind these narratives ...

This last Tuesday, the topic was the Talmud, an amazing book, unique in world literature, but a book which has been closed, sometimes partially, sometimes nearly entirely, to my students — and ...

It took 16 years and involved translating the Jerusalem Talmud’s text from the original languages of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic. The other version of the Talmud is the Talmud Bavli or Babylonian ...