LESSONS FROM THE PAST: TutorSpree CEO and co-founder Aaron Harris opines on what our schools and classrooms can learn from Talmud class and chevruta study, where he spent a good chunk of his time ...
I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a standard part of my Jewish education. I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a ...
It is a commitment like few others. These are the words that opened an article I penned seven and a half years ago. The time was August 2012. My soldier-sons were still in middle school. My ...
To Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, the ultra-contemporary Walt Disney Concert Hall was an apt setting to hold a ceremony Tuesday marking the end of the 7 1/2 -year cycle of reading the ancient texts of the ...
The Talmud, says Kahaner, is a "handbook for today's business world": a reminder of balance in a workaholic culture, a treatise on personal responsibility and a call to charity in a society that seems ...
What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me. By Michael David Lukas In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over ...
When Henry Lowenthal used to prepare for business trips, he’d pack a bag full of typical travel sundries — along with a photocopied packet of pages from the Talmud. As a top financial officer of ...