The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ unpublished works to be digitized
Sefaria, the Jewish digital library, is adding to its online archive of the former UK chief rabbi's teachings
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In the face a new gender-sensitive translation of Bible, some Orthodox rabbis call for a boycott of Sefaria
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Fast Forward A digital Jewish library aims to add women’s Torah scholarship to its shelves — by helping them write it
Twenty women Torah scholars will write books as part of the Word-by-Word project
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Culture As schools and synagogues go digital, this online Torah source is racking up record numbers
With everyone at home these days, web traffic is spiking and — apparently — online Torah is much in demand. Many schools have closed their physical campuses and moved classrooms online in an effort to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. The effects of these extreme measures has forced educators at Jewish day schools…
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News A Digitized Dictionary Illuminates The Talmud, Though Some Prefer To Stay Offline
Gray’s Anatomy. Roget’s Thesaurus. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Some reference books are so famous, they are known simply by the last name of their author. Add to that list Jastrow’s, a dictionary of the Talmud. Long a requirement for Anglophone students of Jewish law, Rabbi Marcus Jastrow’s two-volume work — and its entries for 35,000 words…
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News You Can Now Read The Whole Talmud Online – For Free
Given that it’s is one if not the most essential Jewish texts, the Talmud can be surprisingly hard to come by. But not anymore: The Jewish start-up Sefaria just released a free digital version into the public domain. The William Davidson Talmud is an edition of the Babylonian Talmud with parallel translations into English and…
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Fast Forward Online Talmud Library Seeks To Make Sages Accessible to All
NEW YORK (JTA) — For centuries, studying a page of the Talmud has come with a bevy of barriers to entry. Written mostly in Aramaic, the Talmud in its most commonly printed form also lacks punctuation or vowels, let alone translation. And that’s not to mention the Talmud’s size and cost: 37 full volumes, called…
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Fast Forward Ask a Rabbi: Is it OK to Punch a Nazi?
Is it OK to knock out a Nazi? It’s a debate that’s been revived with unusual vigor since an unidentified assailant socked the white nationalist leader Richard Spencer right in the face last week, on camera. Now, a Hillel rabbi has entered the fray with a source sheet of biblical texts on the matter. The…
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