People in far-off places, and with more distant connections to organized Jewish community, are taking up the commitment of a page each day. (JTA) — In December, when she was given two to four years to ...

That is how long it takes to complete the Daf Yomi cycle. Almost 3 weeks ago, was one of the numerous Siyum Hashas events around the world, here in Jerusalem, and I was there. It was in English, ...

Ten years ago, Michelle Farber started a daily Daf Yomi class in her home in Ra’anana. Her Daf Yomi podcast reaches more than 2,000 people worldwide. The past decade has seen an upsurge in the study ...

Every day for 7 1/2 years, Jews around the world partake in Daf Yomi — reading a page of the Talmud daily. Then, when they’re finished, they attend a siyum, which honors the completion of the learning ...

After a barrage of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, January 2020 arrived with a burst of #JewishandProud energy. People gathered at rallies, began to wear their Magen David necklaces and donned their ...

When one thinks of Daf Yomi, certain images come to mind, among them, devout Orthodox Jews, intensely studying a page of the Talmud every day and learning its important rules and values relating to ...

In one of many oddball stories in the Talmud, the commentary on the Hebrew Bible, we’re told about an ancient diss: one rabbi tells another rabbi that his voice is so bad that if the Holy Temple were ...

The first time I heard that my friends were studying daf yomi, I thought it had nothing to do with me. A daily commitment to studying a page of Talmud? Impossible. I was a busy mother of six, working ...

New Year's Day 2020 saw a crowd of over 90,000 assemble in freezing temperatures at New Jersey's Metlife Stadium. Rather than the usual football game, they had come for the " Siyum ha-Shas of Daf yomi ...

JTA — In December, when she was given two to four years to live, Catherine Johnson decided to start studying a page of Talmud a day. An expansive work of Jewish law and narrative written in Aramaic ...