Just a dozen years ago, Googling ‘Talmud’ returned varied results of dubious provenance. Enter Sefaria, the online database of Jewish texts that was born a decade ago.
Rita Plush learned to recite Kaddish after her mother died. Then she lost her spouse and two of her three kids. Grief-stricken, she found comfort in learning.
A new digital collection catalogs the writings of the distinguished Jewish benefactor who is the great-great-great-great aunt of the modern-day Rebecca Gratz.