Batsheva Learning Center's Beis Midrash program offers young women in Crown Heights (and beyond) with the opportunity to ...

‘The Torah (Parashat Shemini 9:22) relates:’And Aaron lifted up his hands towards the people and blessed them’- expounds the ...

that we don’t fully comprehend however much of them we’re fond. In “Why Jews Used to Eat Dried Carob on Tu b’Shvat: Bokser smells like Limburger cheese. It’s also an embodiment of Jewish ...

At Beth Midrash Harav B’Nai Jacob, an Orthodox synagogue in Northeast Philadelphia, the community that members have fostered over the past five-plus decades is almost certainly going to last, Rabbi ...

Beit Midrash established at site where Binyamin Achimeir was murderedDvir Amar A new Beit Midrash, 'Nachalat Binyamin,’ was established at the site where Binyamin Achimeir was murdered ...

Rabbi Herzl Hefter, dean of Beit Midrash Har’el, ordains both men and women as Orthodox rabbis – and says that the Torah ‘has to be real.’ The 66-year-old Hefter, with a trim beard ...

Domina Games, which has released many card games with beautiful illustrations, will release `` Midrash '', a battle game that earns wisdom points and suppresses the invasion of demons, on Thursday ...

(RNS) — I will never forget the day I fell in love. It happened in the library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where I was studying to become a rabbi. And, no, it was not ...

Jerusalem-based author and teacher Tamar Biala birthed a contemporary oeuvre of midrashim that could legitimately stand alongside those of the ancient rabbis in their canon of Midrash. ERNO RUBIK ...

I would like to offer a simple but controversial idea that I see in the Midrash Tanchuma. I propose that the Midrash is sending us a message reminding us about a fundamental approach to believing ...

When I was in college, I fell in love with midrash. It wasn’t something I had grown up with, and one might say I came in through a back door, a secret pathway of sorts. I had never even heard ...

One of the major themes in Midrash Tanchuma is the prohibition against working the land during the (Shmita) Sabbatical year. The Midrash identifies the character flaws that would lead someone to ...