Tag: Torah
The Torah, morality, antisemitism and the Tao
The question of the origin of morality is probably unanswerable, but a courageous attempt was recently made on this site, and with it an even more daunting effort to explain the cause of antisemitism.
In his article,...
Orthodox group joins lawmakers to form caucus promoting Torah values, battling anti-Semitism
Members of both parties in Congress inaugurated a new Congressional Caucus on Monday to focus on Jewish issues such as the rise of anti-Semitism and unfair treatment in Jewish communities.
According to a news release...
Get vaccinated now; the Torah commands it
During my visits to coronavirus wards at hospitals across Israel, I encountered a most worrying statistic. All of the hospitalized were relatively young people who had not been vaccinated. A few minutes after one...
Thousands of Jews Internationally To Learn Torah Together through Orthodox Union’s Torah Yerushalayim
Thousands of participants from around the world are expected to participate in Orthodox Union’s (OU) virtual Torah Yerushalayim that brings a blue-ribbon list of rabbinic scholars, educators and Jewish communal leaders for three days...
Turning the page on a different kind of bar mitzvah learning
When Marina and Vladimir Druskin of Boston began planning for their son Mark’s bar mitzvah, they knew who their ideal Torah teacher would be. The only problem was that their go-to educator, Rabbi Levi...
More than 100,000 viewers worldwide tune in to online Torah event
More than 100,000 viewers worldwide tuned into a series of online lessons hosted this week by Yeshivat HaKotel, a major religious Zionist hesder yeshivah located across from the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Dubbed the “Jewish...
Don’t break quarantine in the name of Judaism
“A clever person sees evil and hides, but simpletons pass on and are punished” — Proverbs 22:3.
This verse was cited by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horodoker, writing from Tiberias in the aftermath of an epidemic...
New center to grapple with Torah and technology, aims to be an international resource
The Jerusalem College of Technology recently announced the launch of the Torah and Technology Research Center, which will provide specialized expertise necessary to respond to the complex ethical and halachic (Jewish legal) issues of our times.
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Thousands of learners connect with Torah and each other before High Holidays
Torah took the mound at Citi Field as the Orthodox Union fielded a team of 29 internationally renowned scholars, who led classes on a wide array of 31 subjects for around 2,500 participants, at...
More than 2,500 expected at OU ‘Torah New York’ learning event at Citi Field
Leading rabbinic scholars, educators and Jewish communal leaders will be featured on Sunday at the Orthodox Union’s third annual Torah New York at Citi Field in New York City, where more than 2,500 men, women and...