Adin Steinsaltz

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More than 350 Jewish communities worldwide will mark the Global Day of Jewish Learning on Sunday, in an unprecedented day of dialogue, study and…

After 45 years, it is done. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s monumental Hebrew translation and commentary on the Babylonian Talmud has finally reached its end…

The Lo Bashamayim (Not in Heaven) Festival opens today at Kibbutz Kfar Blum in the Upper Galilee for three days of experiential Jewish and Israeli…

He is considered the greatest living American composer and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music last year. She is a pioneer in the realm of video…

Let’s face it: It is unusual and somewhat bizarre nowadays to encounter a family in the US with more than two children. It is almost as if a war has…

Let’s face it: It is unusual and somewhat bizarre nowadays to encounter a family in the US with more than two children. It is almost as if a war has…

Jewish Sages of Today Edited by Aryeh Rubin | Devora | 264 pages |…

Bearing copies of the Koran, a Hanukka song translated into Arabic, and a lot of good will, a colorful contingent of moderate rabbis, poets and…

The Chosen Will Become Herds: Studies in Twentieth-Century KabbalahBy Jonathan GarbTranslated by Yaffah Berkovits-MurcianoYale University Press218…

For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama has, according to a Gallup poll, fallen below a 50 percent approval rating. It's not hard to see…

"This has been an Annus Horribilis for the Jewish people," the president of Yeshiva University, Richard Joel, remarked last week, conjuring the Latin…

In 1965 when Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz embarked on his monumental task to make the Babylonian Talmud accessible to everyone he was sharply criticized by…

Every once in a while a story comes along so jolting that it is scarcely believable. One such story appeared in The New York Times this past Sunday,…

Until the late 19th century, one of Jerusalem's busiest streets was just a tiny path along a patch of ground owned by an Arab who didn't want Jews on…

A new Jewish interfaith initiative launched last week argues building the Third Jewish Temple in Jerusalem would not necessitate the destruction of…

AT THE arrival ceremony of Pope Benedict XVI at Ben Gurion Airport, television cameras focused several times on the eyes of His Holiness, President…

Jerusalem's Russian Library has always had to fight for its right to exist. Last week, it raged its fiercest battle yet, culminating in a promise…

Cover story in Issue 9, August 18, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. Beit Shemesh is a modern,…