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I truly am excited to visit my daughter next week in Israel. Currently, she is studying at Migdal Oz Seminary. She happens to love learning Gemara so she felt that this was the right seminary for her.

Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer performed this week at official Hanukkah parties at the White House, in the presence of US President Donald Trump. In an interview with Kol B'rama radio, Lemmer shared ...

The popularity of the Daf Hayomi study cycle shows that Gemara can be an exciting subject - for yeshiva high school students, not just for their parents. We can and must effect a change in high school ...

While we’ve certainly come a long way since the argument I had with my boyfriend nearly 25 years ago, we still have a long way to go to achieve true Talmudic equality. The mind’s selective ability to ...

I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a standard part of my Jewish education. I am fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where Gemara learning was a ...

Jerusalem Post / Israel News A 21st-century beit midrash One Daf Yomi class for women shows how natural Gemara studies can be for both sexes One Daf Yomi class for women (photo credit: ARDON BAR-HAMA) ...

When Sharon Stein Merkin attended a Modern Orthodox religious day school in Los Angeles, she didn’t learn Mishna or Gemara, the Oral law, because her school, like most in the 1980s and ’90s, didn’t ...