For the past 14 years, the team behind “The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition” has been laboring on a project to sift through the text and reverse the accumulated imperfections and changes ...

“The text can serve as a model of what we want our society to look like,” Brett Lockspeiser of Sefaria said. The creators of Sefaria, a project to digitize Jewish texts, think so. Since 2012 ...

Many students of the Talmud never get that initial spark because the language barrier prevents them from ever experiencing the joy of exploring the text’s depth. I hope that this new English edition ...

By that logic, Zionist Jewish texts themselves would be banned. Three days ago, the New York Post reported that Hunter College was looking to hire a scholar in Palestinian studies. The job ad read ...

Six classic texts of modern Hebrew literature viewed from a variety of critical perspectives. "Reading Hebrew Literature" explores the many ways Israeli literature is read in the United States. In it, ...

This webcase presents Jocelyn Segal’s teaching of Jewish values in her general studies third-grade day school classroom through guided Jewish text study in havruta (text study in student pairs). It ...

The Tenakh consists of 24 books. These are split into three sections, namely the Torah, the Nevi’im and the Ketuvim.

A rare – and possibly unique - text describing a Jewish exorcism has been discovered by a scholar of medieval Jewish studies. The 150 word neatly written fragment – discovered by Dr Renate Smithuis ...

Abby was raised in an ultra-Orthodox hasidic Jewish community, and as she puts it, “growing up, we had a very strong focus on studying, researching, questioning and finding answers in texts.” ...