Kanievsky, a hugely influential leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Haredi community, with hundreds of thousands of followers, collapsed at his home earlier
The nonprofit offers free access to Jewish texts, and debuts one of its most ambitious projects yet - an interactive version of a cryptic and oft-overlooked version of the Talmud
Tributes pour in for Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionizing Talmud studies; funeral starts in Jerusalem at 2 p.m., is being livestreamed
An event marks the culmination of a 7.5-year daily gemara cycle -- and a crescendo in decades of efforts by teachers to wrest Jewish texts from men's-only clubs
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