Rav Moshe Kahn—leading teacher of Gemara to women—passed away early Wednesday morning, January 18. Following many years of study at RIETS as a student of

I watched my rebbe be buried yesterday next to a sefer Torah. How incredibly fitting for a walking sefer Torah to be buried beside one.

I lost my rebbe today. Rav Soloveitchik gave the first Gemara shiur to women in Stern College in 1977. But, what happened on day two?

  Should I be a psychologist or work in high tech? Is this the person I should marry and build a home with? Should I

Megillat Taanit is a work from the first century CE which lists festive days when Jews were not allowed to fast. On some of them—the

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר ה’ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה בֹּ֖א אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֑ה כִּֽי־אֲנִ֞י הִכְבַּ֤דְתִּי אֶת־לִבּוֹ֙ וְאֶת־לֵ֣ב עֲבָדָ֔יו לְמַ֗עַן שִׁתִ֛י אֹתֹתַ֥י אֵ֖לֶּה בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃ ולְמַ֡עַן תְּסַפֵּר֩ בְּאָזְנֵ֨י בִנְךָ֜ וּבֶן־בִּנְךָ֗ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁ֤ר הִתְעַלַּ֙לְתִּי֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם וְאֶת־אֹתֹתַ֖י

We easily see in others, and with difficulty see in ourselves, how mistakes are repeated and obvious lessons ignored. We know it is critical for

בֶּן הֵא הֵא אוֹמֵר, לְפוּם צַעֲרָא אגרא: (אבות ה:כג) Last week, we saw how Ben Hei Hei links the agra (reward) received for mitzvah fulfillment

A friend of mine always eats dessert after Birkat Hamazon in order to avoid questions about whether he should make a bracha on dessert. Is

January 27, 1945. Auschwitz-Birkenau is liberated by Soviet forces still engaged in fighting the retreating Germans. Chaos rules and survivors are scattered. Some are forced

What is Nazir doing in seder Nashim? The Talmudic Narrator opens the tractate by asking this curious question. מִכְּדֵי תַּנָּא בְּסֵדֶר נָשִׁים קָאֵי, מַאי טַעְמָא

(Courtesy of YU) Yeshiva University undergraduates spent a week this January traveling throughout Morocco visiting Jewish heritage sites, building cultural bridges with Muslim university students