“Between the Lines of the Bible: A Study From the New School of Orthodox Torah Commentary,” by Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom (Yashar Books) Besotted with Torah. That’s the phrase that springs to mind when ...

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 ...

This coming Shabbat we will read in the synagogue the Torah section of Chukat which begins, "This is the law of the Torah." Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto asks: Why does the Torah section begin with "this is ...

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In Torah Tutor, Rabbi Lenore Bohm draws on a lifetime of teaching about the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, starting with Genesis. Early reviewers of the book praise the timeliness of ...

In Israel today, the Haredi question is no longer a marginal sociological issue. It sits at the center of our politics, our economy, and our social fabric: mass draft exemptions, low male workforce ...

Thanks for joining our study. Perhaps you are here for a reason. I was "called" to write about this topic after last week's study. In my interview with Museum of the Bible President and CEO, Carlos ...

For 49 days we faithfully counted the Omer, building up to the holiday of Shavuot. Shavuot, the holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, is widely observed around the world by ...

It took the Israelites 40 years to walk through the desert to the promised land. It took the Torah study group at Congregation B’nai Tzedek more than half as long just to read about it. On Thursday, ...