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East Rutherford, New Jersey — Prayers filled MetLife Stadium on New Year's Day as more than 90,000 Jews came together to celebrate a religious event called Siyum HaShas. The event celebrates the ...

The Siyum HaShas for Women was attended by some 3,300 women from Israel and abroad In a well-orchestrated program, the packed audience experienced waves of excitement and emotion, culminating in a ...

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 ...

New Year’s Day presented America with a split-screen of Orthodox American Jewish life in 2020. A jubilant 90,000 souls gathered at the MetLife stadium on Wednesday, proudly celebrating the Talmud ...

Siyum HaShas events in New Jersey and New York draw heavy security 300 uniformed New Jersey State Police officers were reportedly inside MetLife Stadium during the event, which drew tens of thousands ...

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 ...

The first day of the second half of this summer will no doubt stand out in the memories of countless people who had the zechus to attend the twelfth Siyum HaShas at the MetLife Stadium. Many more who ...

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 ...

At the First International Congress of Agudath Israel, held in Vienna in 1923, the Eastern European Rabbi Meir Shapiro, then in his mid-thirties, proposed that Jews around the world study one ...

A new year is around the corner. Members of Klal Yisroel are pulling out all the stops to merit a Kesiva V’chasima Tova. Both at the individual and communal levels, there are so many berachos and ...

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 ...