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 ...

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 ...

For three months, Nahal reservists lived in a girl’s high school on kibbutz Haftez Haim in central Israel. Rabbi Zevik Harel, the school’s rabbi, wrote me as follows: “At the ceremony held when the ...

Does one need to study Tanach? That’s a strange question. First of all, what does “need” mean? “Need” in the sense of must? In Israel, the factual answer is yes. It is obligatory to study Tanach in ...

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” ...

This is the second book by author Jessie Fischbein, a Tanach teacher from Far Rockaway, NY, popular lecturer, and author of the book Infertility in the Bible. In this book, she offers an account of ...

That worked out pretty well, I’d have to say. Let’s do it again, but differently, in 2017! I’m referring to my 2016 goal of reading the Tanach in one calendar year, using a cranked-up variation on the ...

Dror Karavani turned the replica of the ancient Israeli coin in his fingers. The image on the half shekel is a jar, he explained, like the one Moses used to preserve a sample of manna for generations ...

Jews have traditionally been known as “People of the Book,” yet growing numbers of U.S. Jews know very little about their people’s primary book, the Hebrew Bible. The ArtScroll English Tanach seeks to ...

Since then, literal belief in all Tanach stories has become a litmus test for Charedi Judaism. Meanwhile, our US rabbis must self-censor to keep their jobs. Unlike their American and Israeli ...