(RNS) — The six-hour online Torah-fest may be a harbinger of the kinds of creative changes in Jewish communal life resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. (RNS) — On the eve of Shavuot, the Jewish ...

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In a heartfelt video message ahead of Shavuot, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, called on Jews around the world to embrace the spirit of Torah learning and ...

With everyone at home these days, web traffic is spiking and — apparently — online Torah is much in demand. Many schools have closed their physical campuses and moved classrooms online in an effort to ...

This article examines The Torah - what it is, how it is used and how it is constructed. The Torah is the first part of the Jewish bible. It is the central and most important document of Judaism and ...

That’s a question more and more Christians are asking as they explore the Hebrew roots of Christianity. Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel and his partner Rabbi Ari Abramowitz lead a weekly online Torah study group ...

Years before COVID-19 made online learning commonplace, WebYeshiva was offering Torah education to students around the world. There are hundreds of places to study Torah online, but, since the 1990s, ...

Rabbi Gregory Marx This week’s Torah portion is Vayikra: Leviticus 1:1 — 5:26 Sigmund Freud argued that sublimation is a defense mechanism, where we take emotionally... Rabbi Erica Steelman This ...

The Torah is the first part of the Jewish bible. It is the central and most important document of Judaism and has been used by Jews through the ages. Torah refers to the five books of Moses which are ...