‘We want to make the Tanach alive and exciting and relevant,” says Dr. Yael Ziegler, rosh batei midrash and academic director of Matan – The Sadie Rennert Women’s Institute for Torah Studies, “and we ...

This week saw the 30th annual Tanach conference hosted by Herzog College and Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion, which was attended by more than 5,000 people of all ages. The “Yemei Iyun B’Tanach” ...

Baruch Hashem, we live in a generation in which there has been a tremendous resurgence in Torah study. From young to old, many Jews from across the spectrum are beginning to reconnect more to our ...

How can we make Bible study exciting to kids in Jewish schools, and show that it is still relevant to their daily lives? This is one of the questions that will be discussed at the Herzog College Yemei ...

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Israeli website “929” — devoted to the study of all 929 chapters of Tanakh (Scripture) — just announced that it is launching an English-language website on Monday. The English edition is in ...

The Tanach Study Days of the Herzog College took place this year under the theme Tanach Around the World. The acronym Tanach stands for Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim, signifying the Five Books of Moses, the ...

A look at American Jewry's affiliation with Judaism shows too many American Jews evincing unconcern with preserving the Jewish People or even their own family as Jews, and the high rate of ...

Recently, I merited acquiring a treasure: the first Tanach printed in Amsterdam, produced in 1630 at the press of Menasseh ben Israel. In 1626, he established the first Hebrew printing press in ...

America’s oldest Jewish publisher has embarked on a project to bring the study of Judaism’s most ancient texts into the digital age. The Jewish Publication Society, a 120-year-old organization devoted ...

JTA — A conference of Jewish educators became first responders of sorts when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis had an emergency: The Jewish Democrat was about to be sworn in for a second term and he couldn’t ...