The Talmud Says Sanctuaries Must Have Windows; A Rabbi Tells You Why
In Berachot (34b), the Talmud teaches that a synagogue must be built with windows in the sanctuary. I believe this is so we can see who is outside and unable to join us. As Jews, we have to maintain...
View ArticleWhy We Still Wait For The Messianic Times
Rabbi Marci N. Bellows Jewish Week Online Columnist Ani Maamin – I believe with perfect faith in the coming of a messianic era. In Reform ideology, we don’t necessarily wait for an individual Messiah,...
View ArticleGoogle Glass and Jewish Education
In 1982 when I was in first grade at Hillel Day School, a Jewish day school in Metropolitan Detroit, my father brought in our family’s Apple II computer for show-and-tell. There were no computers in...
View ArticleBringing Jewish Texts Back To Secular Israelis
Francine Klagsbrun Special To The Jewish Week Listening to Ruth Calderon speak at my synagogue last week, I felt sad, once again, about something that has been lacking for a long time in the Jewish...
View ArticleLubavitcher Rebbe Lives On Through His Good Works
Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald The Talmud (Ta’anit 5b) teaches us that the Biblical Jacob never died, despite the eulogies that were delivered in the presence of his mortally deceased body. His impact...
View ArticleThe Importance Of A Global Day Of Jewish Learning
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Special To The Jewish Week Jewish knowledge is not just good to have. It is essential. Some may think that knowledge belongs to scholars, religious leaders and the...
View ArticleExpelled From Ramaz, Former Pot Dealer Scores Netflix Hit
Carly Stern Editorial Intern Natasha Lyonne, who plays a Jewish ex-heroin addict on 'Orange Is The New Black,' remains connected to her religious upbringing. Natasha Lyonne is the perfect ex-drug...
View ArticleExpelled From Ramaz, Former Pot Dealer Scores Netflix Hit
Carly Stern Editorial Intern Natasha Lyonne, who plays a Jewish ex-heroin addict on 'Orange Is The New Black,' remains connected to her religious upbringing. Natasha Lyonne is the perfect ex-drug...
View ArticleChanukah Habits For All Eight Nights, And Beyond
Erica Brown When Rabbi Meir Shapiro suggested the practice of the Daf Yomi, studying a page of Talmud daily, at an Agudah conference in 1923, he could never have imagined how many thousands of people...
View ArticleOnce A Prop For Anti-Semites, The Talmud Makes A Comeback In Russia
JTA (JTA) — A century ago, passages from the Talmud were translated into Russian to be used as evidence in the anti-Semitic show trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Jew charged with — and eventually...
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