Batsheva Learning Center's Beis Midrash program offers young women in Crown Heights (and beyond) with the opportunity to ...

According to Midrash Tanchuma it wasn’t enough for him to own half the world from a 50 – 50 split with his brother. He was too jealous of the half he didn’t own. So he came up with a plan ...

Unfortunately, the later reads like the abridged story of Jewish history. The Midrash spends lots of time on one tragedy that seems unrelated. A Jewish leader and general named Yiftach makes a ...

TAKE, FOR example, the midrash in Exodus Rabbah (24:1), which cites a verse from Psalms (106:7) in which King David describes the departure of the Jews from Egypt and adds an additional detail ...

The Jewish people sought to uncover and emphasize every individual’s personal strengths, and thus chose banners for each ...

(RNS) — I will never forget the day I fell in love. It happened in the library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where I was studying to become a rabbi. And, no, it was not ...

Mouth of the Donkey reads like midrash. Duhan-Kaplan’s interpretations are well documented and rooted in Jewish tradition. She describes scripture as “loaded with so much meaning that humans will ...

(photo credit: Courtesy Matthew L. Berkowitz) In honor of Passover 5785, it’s worth pondering a brief midrash found in the Talmud (Berachot, 9b), on a verse in Exodus, chapter 3. When Moses ...