Reading Talmud requires sophisticated textual interpretive abilities and has its own particular characteristics. But how do students learn to read Talmud? How can we assess that process? What can we ...

(JTA) — When she was 14 years old, Elke Bentley could hear her father’s online Talmud classes through the wall between her bedroom and his home office in Brookline, Massachusetts. The 5 a.m. start ...

Though women have been historically forbidden or discouraged from learning the Talmud, Elke Bentley's family has always supported her pursuit of Torah study. When she was 14 years old, Elke Bentley ...

(JTA) — My Jewish Learning is launching a Talmud study series to coincide with the renewal of the Daf Yomi cycle on Jan. 5. Sometimes referred to as the world’s largest book club, Daf Yomi is a ...

JTA — When she was 14 years old, Elke Bentley could hear her father’s online Talmud classes through the wall between her bedroom and his home office in Brookline, Massachusetts. The 5 a.m. start time ...

SEOUL, South Korea (JTA) — In 2014, Kim Hye-kyung found herself staring into an educational abyss. The mother of two lives in study-mad South Korea, a nation where parents fork over a combined $17 ...

A global day of Jewish learning marks the completion of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s 45-year project of translating the Talmud into Hebrew. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — On Nov. 7, noted Talmud scholar and teacher ...

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Elke Bentley, 18, completed the Babylonian Talmud in just two-and-a-half years.Courtesy Elke Bentley When she was 14 years old, Elke Bentley could hear her father’s online Talmud classes through the ...