Posted By  richards on October 25, 2014    
				
				        Rabbi Dr. Judith Abrams. Image courtesy MAQOM      
    Rabbi Dr. Judith Abrams, the founder and director of the online    Talmud learning website, MAQOM, died of a heart    attackWednesday in Houston. She was 56.  
    Abrams, who made a career of Jewish teaching and learning, was    a relative latecomer to Jewish study. Inspired by a semester    studying in Soviet-era Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where    she met Jews in synagogue and on the streets, she entered the    Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion with    practically no Jewish education, and quickly excelled in her    studies, according to professor Jonathan Sarna, who is a    professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University and wrote a    tribute to her on the H-Judaic e-mail list.    Abramsgraduated at the top of her class in 1984 and was    ordained as a rabbi the following year.  
    Her rabbinic thesis, on the image of America in the    Russian-language Jewish press, was published    intheAmerican Jewish History journal in 1986. In    1993 she earnedadoctoratein Jewish    studiesfrom Baltimore Hebrew University.  
    Abrams pioneered online teaching of Talmud to adults through    her website MAQOM, and authored over 20 books for    asultsand children. Her most recent book, The Other    Talmud (Jewish Lights) was publishedin 2012.  
    Abrams is survived by herhusband, Dr. Steven Abrams, and    three children.  
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