While Shavuot offers us a moment to focus our attention on Torah study — all-night learning tikkun style awaits at many area synagogues and JCCs — the esoteric musings of a Talmud scholar at 3 ...

It was called Nittel Nacht, or Night of the Birth, and commemorated with (among other things) a practice not to learn any Torah until late into the evening. The practice of not learning Torah is ...

Rabbi Dov Lando, head of the Slabodka Yeshiva and a leader of the Lithuanian-haredi community, sent a message to other yeshiva deans to emphasize the importance of Torah learning in protecting the ...

There are now units that are exclusively for haredi men [with] no women around, the highest level of kashrut, and time allowed for learning Torah and prayer. “I firmly believe that men (and ...