Dr. Azzan Yadin-Israel, from the Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, delivered a lecture on ‘The Rise of Rabbinic Midrash and Its Christian and Pagan Context’. He began his lecture by ...

The Institute for Contemporary Midrash (ICM) was created by Rivkah Walton to support the participation of contemporary midrash, a type of biblical interpretation, through visual, performing, and ...

Why create a ritual for setting up the beit midrash in the classroom? Rituals create structure for students. They signal the nature of a particular time period and how students should act during it.

(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 with a ...