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Missed Mitzvos and Sudden Accountability. Our Gemara on Amud Aleph relates an interlude in which an angel rebuked Rav Ketina ...

The popularity of the Daf Hayomi study cycle shows that Gemara can be an exciting subject - for yeshiva high school students, not just for their parents. We can and must effect a change in high school ...

Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer performed this week at official Hanukkah parties at the White House, in the presence of US President Donald Trump. In an interview with Kol B'rama radio, Lemmer shared ...

While we’ve certainly come a long way since the argument I had with my boyfriend nearly 25 years ago, we still have a long way to go to achieve true Talmudic equality. The mind’s selective ability to ...

I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a standard part of my Jewish education. I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a ...

When Sharon Stein Merkin attended a Modern Orthodox religious day school in Los Angeles, she didn’t learn Mishna or Gemara, the Oral law, because her school, like most in the 1980s and ’90s, didn’t ...

When 32-year-old Rachel Gemara volunteered for the new COVID-19 ward in Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center at the end of February, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. At the time, ...

Gemara describes, how unlike in her previous role on the oncology ward where she was in direct contact with her patients, she now has to keep her distance, sitting in what they call the chamal ...

The mitzvah of honoring one's parents is not a narrow religious demand but a foundational moral duty.