Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

Torah study in its broadest sense is the path to the divine. The Chasidim and their spiritual descendants traditionally reach toward God through ecstatic music, with the mediation of their rebbes. The ...

Samuel L. Boyd does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

This week’s Torah portion, Mishpatim, represents the first extensive listing of laws given by God to the Israelites through Moses. In many ways, it can be seen as an expansion ...

The journey to seeking Hashem through the lens of science was pioneered by Avraham Avinu. The Midrash (Bereishit Rabbah 39:1) recounts how a young Avraham, observing the celestial dance of the sun, ...

These French Jewish women felt left out. Though France is home to the world’s third largest Jewish community, Tali Trèves-Fitoussi, 29, and Myriam Ackerman Sommer, 25, had no place to seriously study ...

Every summer, Brandeis University becomes a vibrant hub for pluralistic Jewish learning through Genesis, a three-week precollege program that brings together high school students from across the globe ...

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- A Jewish congregation on Long Island has nearly accomplished something very rare -- the in-depth study of the complete Jewish bible, which contains hundreds of ...

Jewish mystical texts say God “looked into the Torah and created the world” and studying the Torah is a way of studying God’s mind. So why is it that Jewish study centers are filled almost exclusively ...