Tonight starts Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, the final round of Jewish holidays -- for this month, anyway! Here's a little mix tha...

Most of my favorite Talmud stories center around Yalta . She's a Talmud-era commentator who's sometimes thought to be Rav Nachman...

On the way out of his goodbye party last night, my doppelganger-in-name Shimon Roth grabbed me and said, "Are you gonna write about thi...