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Davka Corporation is a software company specializing in applications related to Jewish history, customs and traditions and the Hebrew language. Founded in 1982, Davka is notable as the publisher of several early games for the Apple II series of computers including ''The Lion's Share'' (1983 video game) by Robert Aaron and '' The Philistine Ploy'' by Robert Aaron and Alan Rosenbaum. The company has published numerous software titles for the PC, Macintosh and Palm platforms including the ubiquitous Davkawriter Hebrew/English Word processor. The Lion's Share (1983 video game)) --> Name The name ''Davka'' comes from a Hebrew word that is difficult to translate. At times the intent is to say "exactly so"; often, the word "specifically" can be used as a synonym, but it has many other translations. About In the late 1990s and somewhat beyond, its major competitor was Jerusalem-based Torah Educational Software. Davkawriter DavkaWriter is a Hebrew-English word processing program for ...
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Davkawriter
Davka Corporation is a software company specializing in applications related to Jewish history, customs and traditions and the Hebrew language. Founded in 1982, Davka is notable as the publisher of several early games for the Apple II series of computers including ''The Lion's Share'' (1983 video game) by Robert Aaron and '' The Philistine Ploy'' by Robert Aaron and Alan Rosenbaum. The company has published numerous software titles for the PC, Macintosh and Palm platforms including the ubiquitous Davkawriter Hebrew/English Word processor. The Lion's Share (1983 video game)) --> Name The name ''Davka'' comes from a Hebrew word that is difficult to translate. At times the intent is to say "exactly so"; often, the word "specifically" can be used as a synonym, but it has many other translations. About In the late 1990s and somewhat beyond, its major competitor was Jerusalem-based Torah Educational Software. Davkawriter DavkaWriter is a Hebrew-English word processing program for W ...
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Soncino Press
Soncino Press is a Jewish publishing company based in the United Kingdom that has published a variety of books of Jewish interest, most notably English translations and commentaries to the Talmud and Hebrew Bible. The Soncino Hebrew Bible and Talmud translations and commentaries were widely used in both Orthodox and Conservative synagogues until the advent of other translations beginning in the 1990s. Acceptance The Soncino translations and commentaries are based, largely, on traditional Jewish sources. They accept the Bible as divine and the biblical history of The Exodus from Egypt and the giving of the Torah to Moses at biblical Mount Sinai as true, and had been generally regarded as Orthodox. Nonetheless, they tended to have some input from Christian and modern academic scholarship and tended not to treat rabbinical Midrash and Aggadah as fact. The ''Terms and Abbreviations'' page lists Authorized Version and Revised Version, both of which include New Testament; the latter t ...
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Soncino Press
Soncino Press is a Jewish publishing company based in the United Kingdom that has published a variety of books of Jewish interest, most notably English translations and commentaries to the Talmud and Hebrew Bible. The Soncino Hebrew Bible and Talmud translations and commentaries were widely used in both Orthodox and Conservative synagogues until the advent of other translations beginning in the 1990s. Acceptance The Soncino translations and commentaries are based, largely, on traditional Jewish sources. They accept the Bible as divine and the biblical history of The Exodus from Egypt and the giving of the Torah to Moses at biblical Mount Sinai as true, and had been generally regarded as Orthodox. Nonetheless, they tended to have some input from Christian and modern academic scholarship and tended not to treat rabbinical Midrash and Aggadah as fact. The ''Terms and Abbreviations'' page lists Authorized Version and Revised Version, both of which include New Testament; the latter t ...
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Torah Educational Software
Torah Educational Software (TES) is a distributor of Judaic software based in Jerusalem. Its product ''Let's Keep Kosher'' received a rabbinical endorsement. Software for Jewish texts * A 1996 followup to a 1994 Davka-vs-TES (Torah Educational Software) comparison of Jewish texts on CD-ROM began by listing the winner: "The competition ... has led to an apparent winner: the consumer!" * A University of California Press 34 page overview of tools for Talmudic study, especially related to Daf Yomi, gives Artscroll top billing, but in the area of non-print and non-voice, TES is noted for its ''Gemara Tutor'' and ''Talmud Master'' software. * ''Dagesh'' is the name of their multi-language wordprocessing program, including Hebrew, English, Russian, and Arabic; ''Dagesh-Pro Translator'' is bi-directional for Hebrew and English. See also * Bar Ilan Responsa Project The Bar Ilan Responsa Project (the ''Global Jewish Database'') is a collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew, sold on CD and mor ...
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