Notwithstanding the United Nations Security Council vote of this past Monday, Shushan Purim, whose full or even partial compliance was still far from guaranteed as
The Talmud was written, organized and compiled in a different era, but many of its lessons are timeless. Many of its examples may seem inapplicable
This article takes no position as to the merits of the accusations against former president Donald Trump or against district attorney Fani Willis. For Americans
In the days of the Talmud, and in our own day, an ordinary instance of theft is assumed to generally result in the ye-ush or
It might seem counterintuitive to suggest that the Daf Yomi the Shabbat before Chanukah this year was particularly relevant since it is well known that,
Sometimes the Daf Yomi seems relevant to the news of the day. Now is a time when the whole tractate of the Talmud the students
It was the happiest of times, it was the unhappiest of times. It was Simchat Torah, the happiest day of the year, and the only
I had an opportunity to attend a once-in-a-lifetime event at an international conference – the conferral of the Deso Weiss Award to my wife, Dr.
Note: This is not intended to take sides as to the issue of judicial reform, but merely to refer to the Talmud’s daily daf to
At least two articles and many social media posts recently went viral alleging that a large multi-generational Orthodox Jewish family of over 30 people at
Anti-government demonstrations cause demonstrative harm. A lot has happened since my article was published in these pages (“Daf Yomi Provides Template for Negotiating An End
Without taking sides in the uncivil “civil war” in Israel, God forbid (which, hopefully, will have been resolved peacefully by the time this article will
