The Mercury Press, 110 pages, $19.95. Quebec translator, playwright and novelist Robert Majzels has composed his most demanding work in his third novel, “Apikoros Sleuth,” as he stretches the genre to ...

An event honoring the 75th anniversary of the Talmudic Encyclopedia took place on December 30th at the residence of the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog. It was especially moving because it was also ...

Maggie Anton is the award-winning author of “Rashi's Daughters,” historical novels set in the household of the great medieval Jewish scholar, whose daughters studied Talmud when these sacred texts ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me. By Michael David Lukas In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over ...

More than 40 years ago, Orson Welles, the legendary actor and filmmaker, in an iconic TV commercial, intoned in his distinctive baritone, “Some things can’t be rushed – good music and good wine.” ...

Antonin Scalia had a keen interest in Jewish learning. The late Supreme Court justice and I were classmates and co-editors on the Harvard Law Review between 1958 and our law-school graduation in 1960.

I recently read two very interesting short books. One of them was a quick read, while the second one was much deeper and complex. In Seventy Conversations in Transit with Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik ...

On December 31, 1930, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency published a rousing call for the renewed study of the Talmud, the classical Jewish literary-legal compendium. It was written by none other than ...

Dr. Goldmeierteaches at Touro College Jerusalem. He is an award-winning entrepreneur receiving the Governor's Award for family investment programs in the workplace from the Commission on the Status of ...