The big stadium seemed to be levitating; looking up, framed against storm clouds, 90,000 Jews were on their feet, then were rising to their toes in unison, once, twice, three times, calling out loudly ...

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 ...

“I’m sorry if I don’t read the Hadran perfectly. Aramaic wasn’t one of the foreign language choices in my elementary school in the former Soviet Union.” So began the first of our six Siyum’s at the ...