I learned Torah stories as a child, but nobody in my life took them seriously.
What if you spend more time listening to punk than learning Torah?
"Today the number of people learning Torah is higher than it ever was in Eastern Europe," Mr. Rubenstein said.
My Yeshiva education covered many topics: Learning Torah was one, dating Jews another, and then, there was this big focus on Jewish persecution, with a spotlight on Christians.
Mike isn't married, he's got no kids, and he was saying: "This is the last chance I'll ever get to spend a whole year doing nothing but learning Torah.
"If television wasn't banned, we wouldn't have kids studying and learning Torah 16 to 18 hours a day," said Rabbi Shalom Storch, principal of Yeshiva Nesivos Ohr, a day school in Lakewood.
Most men do not work and many refuse to perform compulsory military service, devoting their days to learning Torah and living off what is now meager state support.
You'll need 2 copies of your Torah portion - 1 with vowels and symbols and 1 without, because the Torah only has Hebrew letters, so you'll need to learn your Torah portion BOTH ways.
