(JTA) — The Mishneh Torah, a 14-volume monumental work on Judaism by the 12th-century philosopher Rabbi Moshe Maimonides, has been translated and published in Russian for the first time.

Yahrzeit (anniversary of death) of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Rambam ... the Jewish community, he was a top physician who served in the court of the sultan of Egypt. His magnum opus is Mishneh ...