RABBAH BAR NAHMANI (d. around 330 CE), a third-generation Babylonian amora, rabbinical colleague of Yosef bar Ḥiyyaʾ and Ḥisdaʾ. Rabbah studied with Hunaʾ and several other Babylonians, including Yehudah bar...

Rabbah bar Nachmani (Hebrew: רבה בר נחמני) (c. 270-c. 330) was a Jewish Talmudist known as an amora, who lived in Babylonia, known throughout the Talmud simply as Rabbah. Rabbah was born into a priestly family, and studied at both the...

U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, fresh from his fight with the U.S. Supreme Court over a Texas sodomy law, is now suggesting that the Allegheny County Bar Association bow out of interviewing candidates for federal judgeships. Earlier this summer, Santorum advised state Attorney General...

PICK Voice Pick Brandy Library 25 N Moore, 212-226-5545. Drawing Wall Street guys both old and youngish, the Brandy Library has a Ritz-Carlton lobby lounge vibe, plus schmaltzy touches like cocktail waitress "librarians" traversing bottle-lined bookshelves on rolling ladders. But the menu...