Defending The Talmud

Here's a pretty good defense of the Talmud against widespread attacks now and going back to the beginning.

Those claiming that Zionism comes from the Talmud should realize that the Talmud existed for over a millenium before the emergence of modern Zionism, and furthermore the Talmud expressly forbids the establishment of a Jewish state by man (as does the Torah) and this was the mainstream belief of nearly all Jews before the Holocaust.  Modern Zionism was created by atheists, though it gained more traction among most religious Jews after the Holocaust and then also in a blitz of Hasbara in the 1960's.