Searching for Heather Dean
In a new memoir, a former entertainment journalist shares why she gave up a glamorous career to pursue newfound dreams in Israel.
In a new memoir, a former entertainment journalist shares why she gave up a glamorous career to pursue newfound dreams in Israel.
Exploring how Daf Yomi can transform lives and how digital tools can enhance and deepen that experience.
Discussing Daf Yomi with some of the most distinguished maggidei shiur
In a wide-ranging conversation with Jewish Action writer Sholom Licht, Dr. Henry Abramson discusses everything from skiing to Piaseczno Chassidut to his involvement with the OU’s groundbreaking Daf Yomi platform, All Daf.
I was injured in a terrorist attack in 2001. Since then, I have been paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. It is important for my health to spend time standing every day. So I do my “standing time” every day while listening to the Daf Yomi. This is my second cycle—the first cycle I studied the Daf with Rabbi […]
With some 20,000 bursts of Talmudic wisdom over the past seven years, @TweetTheDaf has become one of most popular Daf-focused Twitter accounts.
Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the printing of the Bomberg Talmud, Columbia University librarian Michelle Chesner tells the story of the monumental printing of the Bomberg Talmud, the first complete set of Shas to ever be printed.
Original documents revealed to the public for the first time—some from venerable gedolim of the twentieth century—tell of heroic efforts to save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust.
The 700 case files found in the Kestenbaum archives reveal the heroics, the determination and steadfastness of the Kestenbaum brothers in rescuing their brethren from Nazi Europe.
Colors? I thought I knew colors. How little did I know the astoundingly beautiful world, as colors now blaze before my eyes.
A veteran of chevra kadisha work, Rochel Berman has spent decades engaging in the ultimate act of chesed.
Whether we have six months, ten years or forty years left on this earth, we are constantly presented with options for how to spend our time.
Putting a healthy child on a diet may be culturally acceptable in the United States, but that does not make it right.
The earliest year-counting system used by the Jewish people, found in Tanach, counted from Yetziat Mitzrayim.
Try serving up these starters at your next Chanukah party!
For more than twenty years, I have spoken of the murder of Alisa Flatow, but only now do I know Alisa Flatow.
There is no room for triumphalism or schadenfreude here. We are witnessing tragedy—pure, unmitigated tragedy.
The siddur, once hidden in the bowels of a dark dungeon and used by inmates of the most horrific and debased place on earth, transitioned to use for mundane, though still holy, daily prayers.