In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic rabbis debate who is free to butcher animals piously according to Jewish ritual. Plus: the one transgression that is unforgivable under the Torah.
A new English translation of the Samaritan Torah offers scholars a different version of the sacred text
Plus Peres and Barak paint the town red, and more
The still-Samaritans, cheesecake, and more
Israel’s smallest religious minority offers Jews a glimpse of what might have been
Plus Woody speaks up for justice, and more in the news
Shyne is free, etrogs are inedible, and Roth wins again