
Women’s Daf Yomi: Gender and Talmud Study in Digital Space
May 16, 2022 1 Comment
By Adam Ferziger New Year's Day 2020 saw a crowd of over 90,000 assemble in freezing temperatures at New Jersey's Metlife Stadium. Rather than the usual football game, they had come for the Siyum ha-Shas of Daf yomi, the ritual "completion" ceremony celebrating study of all 2,711 folios of the … [Read More...]

HBI Gives 14 Research Awards
April 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
HBI Gives 14 Research Awards By Amy Powell When the pandemic hit, frequent research collaborators Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend, already accustomed to working on Zoom and across multiple time zones, decided to have some fun with their research. “We were both going a little bit … [Read More...]
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