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Why Funding the Jewish Project You’ve Never Heard of (Sefaria) is a Big Deal
Authors: Bloom Daniel
As a Jewish innovation enthusiast, and as a software engineer, it was with great excitement and surprise that I learned of the Jim Joseph Foundation awarding a $250,000 grant in support of the Sefaria project. Sefaria describes itself as “a living library of Jewish Texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation.” It offers a beautiful interface to open source Jewish texts, accompanied by parallel crowdsourced translations, and includes some works translated into English for the very first time.
Published: 2014
Updated: May. 07, 2014
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'Sefaria' Open Source Online Jewish Text Site Could Expand Jewish Learning
Authors: Wiener Julie
The Sefaria Project is about building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. Sefaria is building a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation. Its scope is Torah in the broadest sense, from Tanakh to Talmud to Zohar to modern texts and all the volumes of commentary in between. Sefaria is created, edited, and annotated by an open community.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jun. 25, 2013