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When Technology & Shabbat Collide, Give the Benefit of the Doubt
This past Sunday, the president of New York University issued a mass e-mail apology to students and staff. The day after Yom Kippur might sound like a sensible day for issuing apologies, but the question is whether John Sexton actually needed to make a Mea Culpa. You see, this official apology to the entire university…
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Best Hanukkah Videos for 2010
Here’s my latest post on the Jewish Techs blog for The Jewish Week If you haven’t received an email or Facebook message in the past week with the link to the Maccabeats video of “Candlelight”, you might want to check that your computer is actually plugged in. The Yeshiva University a capella group’s video parody…
Macca-Bee Movie
Great movie parody poster at Bangitout.com (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
Bar Mitzvah Lessons in Cyberspace
Cross-posted to the Jewish Techs blog at The New York Jewish Week Why shlepp your kid to the synagogue for her bat mitzvah lessons when she can dial in virtually? A recent article in the New York Times shows how the tech savvy bar mitzvah tutors have taken to the Web to make the process…
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What Elena Kagan Can Teach Us About Judaism
If Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s choice to fill the open seat on the Supreme Court, is confirmed there will be two Jewish female justices on the highest court in the U.S. and a full third of the bench will be Jewish for the first time in history. The rest of the justices are Catholic. A Supreme…
Yom HaShoah: From "The Camps" to "Camp"
On an early morning this past June, I stood in a synagogue parking lot taking temperatures of the Jewish children before they boarded the buses to take them off to summer camp. Along with every other staff member in the parking lot, I was wearing a brown shirt — the official staff shirt of the…
