Column B: One person really can change the world – Myhorrynews
admin | February 17, 2020
Harekla Hajabba earned $2.80 a day as recently as 20 years ago, selling oranges in Mangalore, India.
Tel Aviv professor is first woman to receive Israel Prize in Talmudic Studies – Jewish News
admin | February 16, 2020
Vered Noam of Tel Aviv University has been awarded the Israel Prize in Talmudic Studies the first time that a woman has received the award.
First Woman Awarded the Israel Prize for Talmudic Studies – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
admin | February 16, 2020
Photo Credit: TPS Professor Vered Noam, a Talmudic studies lecturer at Tel Aviv University, was announced on Monday the recipient of the 2020 Israel Prize for Talmudic Studies, the first woman in history to receive the prestigious award. Noams focus is on Rabbinic literature, Second Temple literature, and early Halakha. The committee that chose Noam stated she is being recognized for her many achievements, demonstrating, first and foremost, impressive research excellence expressed in first-class publications
Tel Aviv professor becomes first woman to receive Israel Prize in Talmudic studies – Cleveland Jewish News
admin | February 15, 2020
Professor Vered Noam, head of the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, has become the first woman to be awarded the annual Israel Prize for Talmudic studies, it was announced on Monday. The prize jury, headed by Rabbi Daniel Sperber, a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, described Noam as an internationally renowned scholar.
YITRO: Lessons from the Altar keep moving forward – The Jewish News of Northern California
admin | February 15, 2020
TheTorah columnis supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek.YitroExodus 18:120:23 This weeks Torah portion is central to the theology of the Jewish people.
TruNews: Zionism Is Using the Transgender Rights Movement to Make All of Humanity Androgynous – Right Wing Watch
admin | February 15, 2020
End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles is not only a virulent anti-Semite but also a radical conspiracy theorist, and those two obsessions merged on Wednesday nights edition of his TruNews program, which resulted in some pretty wild claims being made.
The message of the fig | Sharona Margolin Halickman | The – The Times of Israel
admin | February 15, 2020
In Parshat Yitro, Bnei Yisrael received the Torah as a community, yet each individuals relationship with the Torah is personal and unique.
Women learning Talmud – The Jewish Standard
admin | February 14, 2020
The Talmud is the basis of everything in Judaism, Rabbanit Michelle Cohen Farber said. Most of our Judaism comes from the Talmud, and learning it creates a different understanding of our tradition and our religion
The Fitbit Generation Discovers the Talmud – Atlanta Jewish Times
admin | February 14, 2020
Ive never studied Talmud systematically or regularly. When I do encounter a nugget of wisdom from the vast anthology of rabbinic law and lore, its usually cherry-picked one of a half-dozen or more Jewish texts out of which rabbis and Judaic teachers build a sermon or lesson. If youre like me, you can probably compile your own Talmud Top Ten of famous passages, like whoever saves a life, it is considered as if they saved an entire world (Sanhedrin 37a)
The Mysteries of the Sh’ma – Mosaic
admin | February 14, 2020
From when does one read the shma in the evening?Opening words, Mishnah and Talmud Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One. This simple sentence in the Hebrew Bible, known by its first word as the shma (hear), is also the first subject addressed in the Talmud and the first biblical verse taught to Jewish children
