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Liqa Kahenat Chief Kes Berko Tegegne reads from The Orit at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. Photo by Michael Zekri.

Ethiopian Jewish holy books digitized in Jerusalem

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A collection of rare holy books and manuscripts from the Ethiopian Jewish community written in Ge’ez, an ancient South Semitic language sometimes referred to as Classical Ethiopic, have been digitized and will be available online, the...
Sara Wolkenfeld, (center) chief learning officer of Sefaria. Credit: Courtesy.

In its bat mitzvah year, Sefaria executive reflects on the online Jewish library’s ubiquity

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It started as an online digital copy of the Hebrew Bible. Today, Sefaria has thousands of biblical and rabbinic texts, which 700,000 people access monthly, according to Sara Wolkenfeld, the nonprofit’s chief learning officer. Sefaria...
The Yiddish newspaper “Australier Leben” will become part of a free digital collection, October 2020. Credit: The National Library of Australia.

180 years of Australian Jewish news to be accessible online

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A brand-new initiative will digitize and open free digital access to 180 years of Australian Jewish newspapers, including more than 200,000 pages from Jewish communities across the continent. The project is a collaboration between...