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Tag Archives: Talmud
“Jews are 0.2% of the world population, but 23% of Nobel Prize winners. We Koreans want to learn the Jews’ secrets”
ARUTZ SHEVA Talmud-inspired learning craze sweeps South Korea by Tim Alper January 15, 2019 …“Koreans don’t have to emulate Jewish belief systems,” educational researcher Seol Dong-ju said, “but we do need to copy the way Jews teach their children.” The … Continue reading
Sefaria: “Internet version of Oral Law could revolutionize Torah study, with pop-up commentary to reverse-engineered biblical references — in Aramaic, Hebrew and English”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Online library sets Talmud ‘free’ with full, no-charge translations by Ben Sales February 8, 2017 For centuries, studying a page of the Talmud has come with a bevy of barriers to entry. Written mostly in Aramaic, the … Continue reading
How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea
THE NEW YORKER by Ross Arbes June 23, 2015 About an hour’s drive north of Seoul, in the Gwangju Mountains, nearly fifty South Korean children pore over a book. The text is an unlikely choice: the Talmud, the fifteen-hundred-year-old book … Continue reading
Charles Krauthammer on Judaism and Jewish Identity
MOSAIC April 17, 2015 The journalist Charles Krauthammer speaks about his Jewish upbringing, the Talmud, Zionism, secular Judaism, and his own faith. (Interview by William Kristol; video, 22 minutes.)
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