Author: Rabbi Jason Miller
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Pro-BDS Group Uses Israeli Platform Wix to Build Website
Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Denver deny being hypocritical. According to the university group, which supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement built a website for its activities using the free Israeli website builder Wix, according to the Times of Israel website. The successful Tel Aviv-based company provides a platform for free website…
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Holiday Gift Guide (Technology Edition)
The holiday shopping season is in full effect. Hanukkah begins the evening of Sunday, December 6 this year, which means if you’re shopping for Hanukkah observers you have about three weeks fewer to shop for gifts.Since we’re knee deep in the Digital Age that means a non-technology gift will be relegated to the category of…
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DavkaWriter 7 Wins Hebrew Word Processor Wars
One might think that rabbinical students spend much of their days sitting in the beit midrash arguing over sections of the Talmud containing the debates of the medieval sages. That’s only partially correct. When I was in rabbinical school, I remember the arguments we had (students and teachers) over which is the best Hebrew word…
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Rabbi Dovi Scheiner Launches Synago Mobile Synagogue
From Forbes.com This Synagogue Is Breaking Away From A 2,000 Year Old Model And Solving Judaism’s Biggest Problem By Alyson Krueger Last summer Rabbi Dovi Scheiner and his wife Esty realized they had a problem. Over the past decade they had done the improbable: created a sexy, enticing synagogue named Soho Synagogue for young Jewish…
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Amazon.com Expands Israeli Operations
David Shamah of Times of Israel reports that Amazon.com plans to expand its operations in Israel. In his Start-Up Israel newsletter, he explains what this means: In just a year and a half, Amazon has gone from simply supplying Israeli companies with cloud technology, to developing that technology here – and it’s hiring more than a…
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The Jewish Man Bitcoin Built – and Then Destroyed
Originally Posted in the Forward by Nathaniel Popper This article is excerpted and adapted from “Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money” by Nathaniel Popper. Charlie Shrem sits in prison in central Pennsylvania, the cautionary face of the futuristic movement that developed around the virtual currency…
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Arabs Hack Major Israeli Websites
Arab hackers known as Desert Falcons have stolen over 1 million files in 50 countries. It’s possible that this hacking groups could be government-backed. According to the Times of Israel website and David Shamah, Desert Falcons, which “distinguish themselves from the Gaza porn-hacker group and other lesser cybercriminals by the highly advanced methods they use to attack…
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Tim Cook and Apple Opening Israel Headquarters
Apple CEO Tim Cook will inaugurate Apple Israel’s new headquarters. During Tim Cook’s visit to Israel next week, Cook will meet with former President Shimon Peres and senior figures in the nation’s high-tech industry, the Israeli business daily Globes reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources. Apple Israel headquarters will be located in Herzliya Pituach, a wealthy beachfront…
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Tablet Magazine Charges Users to Comment
Want to comment on a Tablet Magazine article? From now on, you’ll have to pay money to do that. Will that work? I don’t think it will, but I’m not going to pay money to tell them that! Now, if you could pay money to a news website to keep certain people from leaving comments…