In the long history of Jewish survival, few ideas have caused more internal rot than the postwar fantasy that every Jewish man is meant to study Torah full-time. It is not a mitzvah — it is a ...

Surveying 450 people who considered the rabbinate but chose other careers, the study finds that lack of motivation was not a ...

The dream is simple: that every person who wants to read Torah, teach Torah, or hear Torah should be able to do so with ease, ...

At its core, all three platforms share a single purpose: to bring Torah learning and reading into the digital age without ...

Imagine you were a Jewish converso, secretly living in Italy or France after King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had expelled ...

Abraham needed to grow in faith on his long journey through life. It was his willingness to learn such faith that commended ...

In the middle of a six-lane interchange at the main entrance to Jerusalem, 200,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews are beseeching God for protection – not from Hamas or Hezbollah, but from the state of Israel. In ...

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men rallied in Jerusalem on Thursday to protest against military conscription as Israel identified the remains of two hostages returned by Hamas.

We have been fighting in the way our ancestors taught us, through prayer and Torah study,' says Jerusalem rally participant; ...

Hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Jews protest the conscription of Torah students – a conflict over faith, duty, and identity.

“In the Driver’s Seat” is this year’s theme for the Southwest Torah Institute’s Dr. Paul W. Hoffert Spirit Program, which begins Wednesday, July 26 and runs through Tuesday, Aug. 8. Begun in 2000, the ...