Talmud
We need a post-October 7 Talmud: a conversation with Liel Leibovitz
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 7, 2024
You think that the Talmud is just an old, arcane book? Guess again. It might be what our culture needs.
Yes, Biden and Trump are old. Jewish teaching says that can be a good thing.
By Avi Shafran — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — Look what happened when Judean King Rehoboam shunned the advice of the court elders.
Why I am obsessed with an ancient story about giant frogs
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 9, 2024
(RNS) — Yes, they are a metaphor for the challenges of our time.
A decade in, Jewish digital library has revolutionized learning for ‘people of the book’
By Yonat Shimron — August 28, 2023
(RNS) — Sefaria offers 3,300 Jewish canonical texts online for free.
How a grudge destroyed Jerusalem: a Tisha B’Av reflection
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 27, 2023
How much anger can you carry within your soul? Don't even try.
We hoped for a miracle for OceanGate’s Titan crew. We ignore the ones waiting for us every day.
By Avi Shafran — June 30, 2023
(RNS) — The rabbis of the Talmud enjoined us to express boundless gratitude at our waking every day.
My story illustrates the harm in North Carolina’s new abortion limits
By Beth Kissileff — June 28, 2023
(RNS) — Choice about abortion is a choice about women’s health, and a choice about faith.
Can you see the face of a friend?
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 30, 2023
Social justice, kosher-style 101. Wrapped up in one poetic piece of Jewish law.
Amid attacks on trans people, a queer yeshiva offers a path to liberation
By Yonat Shimron — April 12, 2023
(RNS) — At Svara, LGBTQ Jews are reinterpreting and reshaping Jewish tradition by copying the methods used by the rabbis who compiled the Talmud.
Passover reminds us why a nation needs to remember its ‘bad old times’
By Avi Shafran — April 3, 2023
(RNS) — The holiday is about recalling uncomfortable truths, an exercise every American can benefit from.
Is cultured meat the kosher way to go?
By Mark Silk — February 6, 2023
And if we have cultured beef, is the real thing eco-kosher?
Why we still need Tisha B’Av
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 5, 2022
(RNS) — What would happen if America could name its national sins?
Is your faith broken? Join the club.
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 5, 2022
(RNS) — In memory of a great rabbi, and of a woman who taught Torah to children, and in memory of our many broken tablets and faiths.
Should religious people watch the Super Bowl?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 18, 2022
Is boycotting this week's sports events a religious imperative? Maybe.
As Catholics mull Communion for politicians, Jews should look again at abortion issue
By Avi Shafran — July 1, 2021
(RNS) — Judaism, as it happens, is overwhelmingly about responsibilities, not ‘rights.’
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