An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial ...

This book is a deeply scholarly and ambitious work that sheds new light on the Talmud Yerushalmi and its place within the ...

Quick, name a few stereotyped roles for women in literature. Whore with a heart of gold, overachiever, shrew. Victorian angel ...

and to enforce the Babylonian Talmud's espousal of the hatred of people of African descent; the Babylonian Talmud's espousal of Jews' right to lie to non-Jews in court settings; the Babylonian ...

There are instances in the Gemara where, though corporal punishment is accepted as a practice, there is a disapproving response when it is done unfairly or ...

Even the Jewish laws prohibiting lashon hara in strong terms, have exceptions. The sages of the Talmud knew that sometimes we need to know what’s going on, regardless of how we find out.

“It was taught in a beraita, ‘Do not place a stumbling block in front of a blind man’ (Vayikra 19:14). This verse refers to one who hits his big son (‘beno ha-godol’).” (Moed Kattan 17a).

Brandenburger, Adam M., Harborne W. Stuart Jr., and Barry Nalebuff. "A Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud." Harvard Business School Case 795-087, January 1995. (Revised March 1997.) ...

U.S. President Donald Trump named an Orthodox Jewish judge, whose official bio notes his penchant for studying the Talmud, ...