Talmud

Poem as a Noisy Mediterranean Duplex

About a decade ago I read a Billy Collins poem called “Advice to Writers,” where this former U.S. Poet Laureate ...

“What is Hanukah?” the Talmud asks and typically each year at this time we are reminded by a variety of ...

Last year, just before Chanukah, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman came to me for some assistance. Her four-year-old daughter ...

Here’s the thing about being both an author and a blogger: It makes you impatient. When I write a rant ...

It seems to me that we do not do a lot of talking to each other anymore. There is lots ...

A young man adorned with a black hat, a prayer shawl and phylacteries offers up his morning prayers in the ...

I’m excited about the new Muppet Movie, and who wouldn’t be given great lines like the following from the trailer:Kermit, ...

There is no getting away from the Babylonian Talmud--love it, hate it, or both.

The sequence of the tractates in the Order

Early teacher of Jewish law and theology.

Jews and Christians read their own ideas about authority into this ancient legislative institution.

Early Amoraim engaged in respectful debate.