Part of this December’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million ...

For the past 14 years, the team behind “The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition” has been laboring on a project to sift through the text and reverse the accumulated imperfections and changes, returning ...

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In an era when AI is opening new questions about the ownership of texts, the Torah stands apart, writes the chief learning officer at Sefaria. Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and ...

The Getty Museum has an impressive holding of illuminated Christian manuscripts, but it hasn't had any Hebrew texts in its collection until now. It's not for lack of trying, though. The Getty has been ...

Q. I think the Torah is the teaching of the Jewish law. Does it come from the Old Testament? — T., Buffalo, N.Y. A. The Torah consists of the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, ...

The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...

The weekly Torah reading has provided inspiration to generations of Jews, as each year we relive the experiences of our forefathers. Rabbis throughout history have delivered their particular teachings ...

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center The first thing to know about “From Forbidden Fruit to Milk ...