Dr. Ruth Calderon’s Knesset speech has created more buzz around the Jewish world than any speech like it in the history of the State of Israel. Probably because nothing remotely like it has ever ...

A renowned scholar and teacher of Jewish religious texts, Ruth Calderon believes her personal mission is to create a “Jewish renewal” by encouraging and teaching Jews — in Israel and in the Diaspora — ...

Yair Lapid, head of the two-year-old Israeli political party “>secular Talmudist, was the natural pick. “Shabbat shalom,” Calderon, 53, told the crowd, a mix of Hebrew- and English-speakers, before ...

When Ruth Calderon is nervous, she does her nails. "It helps," she grins. "Did you ever try? It puts you together. If you really are nervous you do bright red." Calderon, 51, is a scholar and teacher ...

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