Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Play by play at the Siyum HaShas

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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

90,000-plus crowd in N.J. cheers Siyum HaShas

Some 90,000 people packed MetLife Stadium to celebrate the completion of the page-a-day Talmud cycle in the largest-ever Siyum HaShas. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (JTA) — Some 90,000 people packed MetLife ...
The Jewish Exponent

Ed Sheeran Is Popular — But Not as Popular as the Talmud, According to MetLife Stadium Attendance Figures

British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran came close to setting the attendance record at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday, drawing a crowd of 89,106 concertgoers. The current record-holder? A ...
The Times of Israel

Superbowl (and Rugby) Stadiums and Siyum haShas Stadiums

The memories of the Siyum haShas (the completion of the Talmud) at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and Rosemont Theater in Chicago will last a lifetime for all those who were there to celebrate the ...
The Times of Israel

Rhode Island Jews join in joyous celebration of the 13th Global Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi

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 ...