For our story on Siyum HaShas, see With poetry and scholarship, Daf Yomi Talmud study grows beyond Orthodox. 6:18 p.m.: On the way to the siyum. Mob scene at Penn Station, with lines stretching around ...

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We use the expression ‘The Sea of the Talmud’ because the Talmud is vast, deep and apparently unending. It is fascinating, intricate and instructive. Amazingly, it can be studied with enthusiasm by ...

Singing, dancing and prayers to inspire communal celebration will highlight the gathering of 92,000 Jewish people at MetLife Stadium on New Year's Day, an event that marks the conclusion of a 7 ...

The experts say to sleep on it because things will always seem brighter and clearer in the morning. And as such, hence my reflections from the morning after a night of most magnanimous historic ...

The massive turnouts around the world celebrating the completion of the twelfth cycle of the Daf Yomi should finally put to rest any remaining claims by leaders of non-Orthodox movements that they ...

Thousands of people packed the National Convention Center (Binyanei HaUma) in Jerusalem last week for the religious Zionist movement’s joyous celebration in honor of Siyum Hashas. That joy was ...

Security is high at Met Life Stadium as 93,000 Jews come to celebrate the 13th global Siyum Hashas, the reading of the Talmud.Matthew McDermott Security is high at Met Life Stadium as 93,000 Jews come ...

At the recent Siyum HaShas, celebrating the completion of the 7-and-half-year Daf Yomi (page-a-day) Talmud regimen, that phrase — “unity of the Jewish people” — resounded like a mantra. At the ...

British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran came close to setting the attendance record at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday, drawing a crowd of 89,106 concertgoers. The current record-holder? A ...

When nearly 100,000 people descend on MetLife Stadium Wednesday to mark the Siyum HaShas — a massive celebration for Orthodox and utlra-Orthodox Jews — a massive security team will be prepared, ...