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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Adin Steinsaltz

Nathan Jeffay
August 9, 2020, 1:26 pm
Nathan Jeffay
How Rabbi Steinsaltz’s whiskey shenanigans changed Judaism for me
The late scholar will be remembered for his Talmud translation and commentary, but also for his call to avoid idealizing anyone, including him
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. (Steinsaltz Center/courtesy)
August 7, 2020, 1:48 pm
‘His works will last for generations’: Leaders mourn Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Tributes pour in for Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionizing Talmud studies; funeral, with family only, livestreamed from Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) in his Jerusalem office (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 7, 2020, 11:12 am
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who made the Talmud accessible, dies at 83
Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionary translation and commentary of seminal Jewish texts in ‘once-in-a-millennium’ achievement
By Marissa Newman
Evgeny Velikhov speaks at Limmud FSU Moscow on April 12, 2019. (Courtesy Limmud FSU)
April 19, 2019, 9:31 pm
The non-Jewish physicist who lobbied Gorbachev to open the first Soviet yeshiva
At Moscow conference, Evgeny Velikhov recounts his role in helping an Israeli rabbi open the country’s only official Jewish seminary in 1989
By JTA
Abigail Pogrebin (Lorin Klaris)
April 5, 2017, 3:48 am
A writer gets on the Jewish holiday bus for a year. Where she stops surprises even herself
As she prays and parties every Jewish holiday for a year, Abigail Pogrebin discovers it’s never too late to find personal meaning in tradition
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) in his Jerusalem office (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
December 14, 2016, 11:52 pm
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz recovering from stroke
Talmud scholar, 79, out of intensive care at Jerusalem hospital
By JTA
Jews from across the world take part in the Global Day of Jewish Learning. (screen capture: YouTube)
November 10, 2016, 11:18 pm
Over 500 communities to mark Global Day of Jewish Learning
Project celebrating completion of Talmud translation will see Jews in over 40 countries studying texts together via live online video
By JTA
Spiritual parenting expert Dasee Berkowitz and her three children in their Jerusalem home. (courtesy)
November 13, 2015, 3:03 pm
How spiritual parenting can ground your child rearing
In this year’s Global Day of Jewish Learning, Dasee Berkowitz describes how through zooming out, parents can turn up the volume on their spiritual life
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A screenshot from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's 2013 Global Day of Jewish Learning lecture. (courtesy)
November 13, 2014, 8:14 am
Old-school educators go hi-tech to promote Torah accessibility
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s annual Global Day of Jewish Learning on Sunday aims to harness the Internet to amplify the latest in Jewish education efforts
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
In this June 30, 2014 photo, citizens are seen lighting candles at the hitchhiking site in the West Bank from where three young Jewish teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Fraenkel and Gilad Sha'ar were abducted on June 12 (photo credit: Jonathan Sindel/Flash90)
July 1, 2014, 12:48 am
In memory of slain teens, prayer sessions and vigils across country
Thousands gather in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, at site of kidnapping, and at homes of youths’ families to show support and offer condolences
By Adiv Sterman
The photograph shows the recipients of the 2014 Katz Award and committee who selected them, alongside President Shimon Peres and Marcos and Adina Katz at a reception held Tuesday at the President's Residence in Jerusalem (photo credit: courtesy)
May 28, 2014, 2:15 am
2014 Katz Award recipients named
Four leading Jewish figures recognized for their application of Halacha in modern life
By ToI Staff
'A Guide for the Perplexed' author Dara Horn (photo credit: Brendan Schulman)
November 12, 2013, 4:13 pm
New technology lets Jews ‘sit’ together and learn
With 24×24, the Global Day of Jewish Learning initiative offers an eclectic mix of teachers and artists through Google Hangouts On Air
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays at the 770 building in Kfar Chabad, Israel (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)
January 7, 2013, 4:05 am
Two centuries after the death of its founder, Chabad launches year-long celebration with reissue of his works
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, known as the Alter Rebbe and author of the mystical treatise Tanya, laid the foundations for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, the largest Hassidic group in the world
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) in his Jerusalem office (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 9, 2012, 6:24 am
Never mind the Bible, it’s the sanity of the Talmud you need to understand the world and yourself
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, one of the Jewish world’s leading scholars, says Israel would be a less fanatical place if schools were to focus on teaching the Gemara
By Raphael Ahren
June 19, 2012, 11:45 pm
Peres presents Henry Kissinger with Presidential Award, calls former statesman ‘inspiration’
‘My parents would be proudest of this distinction’ Kissinger says at President’s Conference
By Philip Podolsky
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