Gérard Depardieu, Talmud Scholar?
Gérard Depardieu, the French film star known for his roles in “The Last Metro,” “Cyrano de Bergerac,” and Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet” has shed some surprising light on his literary preferences: he’s currently working his way through the Babylonian Talmud. The famously intricate rabbinic text isn’t the most obvious choice for light reading, especially for a…