| | Artscroll Readers of All Stripes Find Meaning in Translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | Artscroll, a division of the Orthodox Brooklyn-based Mesorah Publications, launched the project in 1990 with the tractate of Makkot and continued releasing new tractates in synch with the program known as Daf Yomi, in which thousands of Jews from around the world study the same page of Talmud every day. |
 | | Artscroll was particularly attractive because, unlike Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's rival edition of the Talmud, which is yet to be completed and which changed the traditional layout of the pages, the Artscroll looks and feels like a traditional edition from Europe, endowing its readers with an instant sense of authenticity. |
 | | While determining whether the long-term consequences of the Artscroll Talmud are positive or negative appears to depend on where one sits, what is certain is that people of the Orthodox world (as well as a portion of the Conservative world) have voted with their feet. |
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