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Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (holding Torah scroll). Credit: Courtesy of the Steinsaltz Center.

Netanyahu: ‘Rabbi Steinsaltz was an outstanding example of the persistent Jew’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the many public figures who eulogized internationally acclaimed talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who died of on Friday in Jerusalem at the age of 83. “Rabbi Steinsaltz was an...
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. Credit: Courtesy of the Steinsaltz Center.

One of Judaism’s great commentators, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, dies at age 83

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Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, one of Judaism’s exceptional modern-day commentators, died in Jerusalem after suffering from acute pneumonia. He was 83 years old. Steinsaltz was born in Jerusalem on July 11, 1937. His scholarship was...
Rabbi Menachem Even-Israel, the son of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, presents the first volume of the Steinsaltz Talmud to Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.). Credit: The Aleph Society.

Library of Congress in Washington to house English-translated Talmud

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The world’s largest library—the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.—is scheduled to house a version of the Talmud this week. Translated from Hebrew to English by world-renowned scholar Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, the religious tome...
Hila Schlakman. Credit: Ohr Torah Stone’s Neveh Channah High School.

Hila Schlakman finishes daily Talmud learning cycle, may be youngest woman yet

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As hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide celebrate the completion of the seven-and-a-half-year-long cycle of daily Talmud study—and as women for the first time in history held their own celebration in Jerusalem—one 17-year-old is...