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 ...

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This festive event, which celebrated the study of a single page of Gemara every day until completing the entire Talmud, included a mass singing orchestrated by Koolulam of a song written by Yoram ...

I truly am excited to visit my daughter next week in Israel. Currently, she is studying at Migdal Oz Seminary. She happens to love learning Gemara so she felt that this was the right seminary for her.

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 ...

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. Instead of spending their ...

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 ...