The sequence of the tractates in the Order

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He decreed thirteen fasts, but he was not answered.

It's not about the money.

The metaphor of Israel as the wife of God receives several potent and shocking midrashic reinterpretations as the rabbis reflect on Israel's suffering and persecution.

The stem cells most likely to be of scientific value come from discarded embryos. Is it ethical to use these?

Torah before Torah.

Mother’s Day isn’t a specifically Jewish holiday — or, to put it more bluntly, the goyim celebrate it, too — ...

The emergence of amoraic schools of study.

I recently read a lecture delivered by Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Chancellor of Yeshiva University, delivered at the 16th Conference ...