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Most recently, a group of IDF reservists finished the Talmudic tractate of Berachot by splitting it up into sections and each learning a small part. 

JEWISH LAW LIVE: Authorizing a rabbinic court to protect the welfare of the spouses of IDF soldiers and reservists is very much needed.

A Q&A session with Rabbi Asher Weiss made its way to me earlier this week. The questioner, it seems, was in a dilemma regarding all the celebration and public advocacy of the IDF soldiers out of a concern that young and impressionable yeshiva students may consider leaving the beis midrash for the battlefield. The truth […]

It ultimately remains difficult to justify prioritizing national resources for an enemy like Hamas when an Israeli citizen needs it at that moment.

From the blog of Jonathan Muskat at The Times of Israel

Since Hamas' bloody Oct. 7 onslaught, the rabbinic principle of pikuach nefesh, or preserving life, has taken precedence above all - though not everyone agrees on what it means

Regular, long-time leiners have a special relationship with every sedra of the year. Some trade secrets from veterans of the klaf

In a landmark development in the world of kashrus, the Orthodox Union has certified a strain of lab-grown meat as kosher for the first time. The

Orthodox Union: SuperMeat Cell Line Meets Mehadrin Kosher Standards, ...

Israeli startup SuperMeat's chicken products sidestep restrictions on using parts of living animals by growing meat from egg stem cells