Isaac Asimov’s iconic science fiction collection “I, Robot” tells the story of androids created at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. The androids range from “Robbie,” who is nonvocal, to “Stephen ...

The Italya Books project is cataloging rare and valuable texts scattered across Italy. MANTUA, Italy (JTA) — A new initiative aims to digitize some 35,000 Jewish texts sitting in the hands of 14 ...

A centuries-old Jewish text that mysteriously ended up on an online marketplace is now returning home. In a press release last week, the Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced that a district ...

(RNS) — Walk into any yeshiva classroom or rabbi’s study and you will find floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with the golden-lettered spines of traditional Jewish texts — compilations of ancient ...

To celebrate her second Tony of the night on Sunday, “Suffs” creator Shaina Taub turned to Jewish tradition. Taub won awards for best book of a musical and best original score written for theater for ...

A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community leaders and handwritten pages passed quietly from generation to generation, ...

Sara Wolkenfeld, the chief learning officer of the online database of Jewish text, reflects on a decade of free, open-source learning. With one search I found a helpful list of sources featuring ...

“A sacred text is a text that haunts me all the time – but it doesn’t paralyze me.” – Rabbi David Hartman There is no dispute that Jews love to argue about our ancient texts. We crave the rigor of ...

Freshfields says it's "moving swiftly" to end work for Russian state bank VEB VEB is contesting a subpoena in long-running dispute over Jewish texts Russia won't return to U.S. (Reuters) - In a ...

(JTA) — A century ago, German philosopher Franz Rosenzweig spearheaded the revival of intellectual Jewish life in the city of Frankfurt am Main with the “Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus” — the Jewish House ...

(The Conversation) — Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate ...