Reading Talmud requires sophisticated textual interpretive abilities and has its own particular characteristics. But how do students learn to read Talmud? How can we assess that process? What can we ...

After a student-led petition collected more than 1,400 signatures, the administration at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women has added Talmud classes back to the course schedule. (JTA) — ...

(JTA) — The future of Talmud study for women at Yeshiva University remains uncertain after a dean told the student newspaper that the school would not replace a beloved teacher and that too few ...

Heading into the semester, law professors across the country, myself included, who were teaching courses such as constitutional law, family law and health law faced a high level of stress: This was ...

The Talmud is almost as sacred to Jews as Scripture, but by no means does every Jew know what is in it. English editions of the 20-volume compilation of law and learning run to several hundred dollars ...

The controversy in the Chicago Jewish community resulting from the dispute which arose between the Jewish Charities and the Moses Montefiore Hebrew Free School, when the Charities withdrew financial ...

Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts, edited by Jon A. Levisohn and Susan P. Fendrick. From the foreword, by Sharon Feiman-Nemser: "This book ...