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Saving Aramaic Ariel Sabar, Smithsonian. Aramaic, the language of the Talmud, is dying as a spoken language.  So, Cambridge professor Geoffrey Khan is racing from Tblisi to Chicago to document every dialect.

On the Virtue of Belief without Practice Alan Brill, Book of Doctrines and Opinions. Herbert Loewe argued that it was better for lax Jews to believe one thing and do another than remake Jewish doctrine in their own image.