THE SCHOTTENSTEIN ARTSCROLL TALMUD is the subject of an article in the Jerusalem Post. Excerpt:

"It is one of the greatest Jewish literary accomplishments in the past 100 years, opening up the sea of the Talmud to everyone," said Rabbi Stuart Grant, principal of Judaic studies at the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School on New York's Long Island. "The notes on the bottom open up a whole world of medieval and relatively contemporary commentaries, which are not necessarily found immediately on the page."

Still, Grant said, students at his yeshiva use the Artscroll as a reference in Talmud study, not as a primary text.

"It shouldn't become a crutch and thus an impediment to being able to make one's own learning of the material in its original," he said.

A translation of the Yerushalmi (Palestinian Talmud) is also in the works.