The Jewish religious leadership required every Jewish individual to learn to read and study the Torah.

Blessed are You, the Eternal, our God, King of the Universe, who has chosen us from all the nations and given us His Torah. Blessed are You, the Eternal, giver of the Torah.

The Book of Matthew relates an incident when Jesus was needlessly cruel to a Canaanite woman in a manner that is completely at odds with the Torah's commandment to treat strangers as "one of your own."

There are things in the Torah that don't look great to a modern reader, just as there are in the Christian and Muslim scriptures.

The Pharisees believed anybody could become learned in Torah, regardless of their station in life.

My son is being called up to the Torah on Sunday.

The Pharisees believed anyone could become learned in Torah, regardless of their station in life.

In the Torah, Lot offers his virgin daughters to be gang raped.

Torah is greater than the priesthood or the monarchy.

The rabbi always connects the week's Torah portion to the issues of the day.