It is just after 5 a.m. in Perth, Western Australia, when Debbie Posner logs on to the All Daf App to begin her day by studying Talmud. Despite the distance and remoteness of her location – some ...

Ilana Kurshan’s memoir takes readers from her divorce through seven years of pain, resilience, remarriage, and the birth of her children. Why this particular time period? Because these are the years ...

"I never thought I would live to see this day," said one of the women participating in a recent celebration in Jerusalem. Orthodox Jewish Women Take A New Lead In Talmud Study In Israel Among devout ...

After a barrage of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, January 2020 arrived with a burst of #JewishandProud energy. People gathered at rallies, began to wear their Magen David necklaces and donned their ...

Jerusalem — Every morning Michelle Cohen Farber wakes up at 5:50 a.m. feeling energized. She exercises, prays, gets her five kids off to school and, at 8:15 sharp, opens her home in the Tel Aviv ...

The People’s Talmud entries are not cumbersome translations of the Talmud but narratives that express the Talmud’s point in the language of today. The body and the soul of the Jewish nation are in ...

Michelle Farber is organizing the first large-scale ceremony to celebrate women who have finished studying the entire Talmud. (JTA) — Michelle Farber has spent decades teaching Talmud to Jewish women.

The past ten years have seen an explosion of high-level Talmud study opportunities for Orthodox women: From Nishmat and Lindenbaum in Jerusalem to Drisha and the Stern Talmud Program in New York. But ...

When I first started studying Talmud regularly, I attended an otherwise all-male class taught by a rabbi in a local synagogue in Jerusalem. I sat in the back corner of the room, but the walls of the ...

I let my daughters underachieve. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I colluded with the schools they attended in London that did not encourage my daughters to study the texts seriously, and specifically ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — This past week, a group of women gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the completion of a Daf Yomi cycle — more than seven years of daily Talmud study. JERUSALEM (RNS) — For the past ...

JTA — Michelle Farber has spent decades teaching Talmud to Jewish women. But when her first child was born, she was relieved it was a boy. “When my son was born, I said, ‘Good, we had a boy first, ...