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Jesus Daily and Torah Daily: Religious Study Through Social Media

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on September 5, 2011 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Christian Learning, Christianity, Facebook, Facebook Education, Faith, Jesus Daily, Jewish Education, Jewish Learning, Jewish Study, Judaism, Rabbis, Religion, Social Media, Social Networking, Spirituality, Torah Daily, Twitter

With about a billion users between Facebook and Twitter alone, more topics than just Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are being discussed on social media networks today. Religion is certainly one of them. An article by Jennifer Preston in yesterday’s …

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How Facebook Has Killed the High School Reunion

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on August 21, 2011 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Detroit, Facebook, High School, High School Reunions, Judaism and Technology, Mark Zuckerberg, Michigan, Nostalgia, Social Media, Social Network, Technology

Who doesn’t love to play the game “Jewish geography”, know who married whom, and keep up with the latest gossip (uh, I mean news) about our high school classmates. In the pre-Web 2.0 era that meant attending a high school …

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Facebook and Google Merge Thanks to Israelis

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on July 11, 2011 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Facebook, Google, Israel, Judaism and Technology, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Web

Google is making another effort to successfully compete with Facebook in social networking. Google Buzz and Google Wave never caught on, but Google can’t afford to fail with their latest attempt Google Plus. The problem is that over 750 million …

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Twitter and Jewish Conferences

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on March 7, 2011 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Esther Kustanowitz, Facebook, Jewish, Jewish Conferences, Jewish Nonprofits, Jewish Organizations, Judaism and Technology, Live Tweeting, Social Media, Social Networking, Tweet, Tweeting, Twitter, William Daroff

Esther’s in Vegas. No, not THAT Esther? We’ll shift our focus to Queen Esther in less than two weeks. For now, the focus is on another Esther. Connected Jewish leaders know that Esther Kustanowitz, the writer and social media consultant, …

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Grandparents and Facebook: When Bubbie and Zaydie Log In

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on December 20, 2010 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Boomers, Elderly, Facebook, Grandparents, Jewish, Social Media, Social Network, Social Networking, Social Networks

I set up my Facebook account in 2004 none of my real life friends had accounts yet. At that stage in the social networking site’s development, a Facebook account was only for university students (or at least anyone with a …

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Looking at Chabad’s Success with the Web and Social Media

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on December 3, 2010 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Chabad, Chabad Lubavitch, Cyberspace, Internet, Judaism and Technology, Lubavitch, Orthodox Judaism, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Web

When it comes to exploiting the Internet for publicity, no Jewish organization does it better than Chabad. Back in the 90’s, Chabad Lubavitch took full advantage of the virtual communities on America Online (AOL) and then launched some of the …

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Jewish Organizations, Synagogues and Technology

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on October 14, 2010 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Darim Online, eJewish Philanthropy, Facebook, Jewish, Jewish New Media Fund, Jewish Nonprofits, Judaism and Technology, JVillage, Lisa Coltin, Marketing, Publicity, Rabbis, Schusterman Family Foundation, Social Media, Synagogue Websites, Synagogues, Twitter, Yoram Samets

Jvillage Network’s Yoram Samets wrote an interesting essay for the eJewishPhilanthropy blog titled “Purposeful and Passionate: Synagogues in the Age of Facebook.” Ultimately, I think he was being too delicate with synagogues by letting them know that it’s okay to …

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Tyler Clementi’s Suicide and Facebook’s Role

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on October 4, 2010 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Death, Ethics, Facebook, Internet, Judaism and Technology, Keshet, LGBT, Rabbi Andy Bachman, Social Media, Suicide, Tragedy, Tyler Clementi

The tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University student who took his own life after being filmed having sex with a man, has led some to voice concern over young people’s misuse of technology. Rabbi Andy Bachman, the founder …

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Porn Website Owner Sells Twitter Handle to State of Israel

By Rabbi Jason Miller Posted on September 16, 2010 Posted in Jewish Techs Blog Tagged with Israel, Israel Government, Israeli, Marketing, Money, Politics, Porn, Porn Website, Pornography, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

For several years when you put whitehouse.com into your web browser it wouldn’t take you to the official home of our President on the Web, but rather to the home of a pornographic Web site. In 2004, the owner of …

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This blog looks at how modern technology affects Jewish life, particularly the impact of the Internet on Jews across the globe. The Internet has made the Jewish community seem smaller. The Jewish Techs blog, written by blogger Rabbi Jason Miller (The Techie Rabbi), explores the places where Jewish culture, education and faith intersect with technology. Of course, like anything, Jews will continue to ask if technology is good or bad for the Jews – the age old question of our people. Good or bad, it is undisputed that technology has changed Jewish life. If you’re Jewish or interested in technology or both… you’ll enjoy the conversation. Thanks for reading the Jewish Techs blog.

Jason Miller is NOT your typical rabbi. Known as the Techie Rabbi, he launched Access Computer Technology in 2010 and has grown it into a full-scale technology firm that provides social media marketing consulting and web design in addition to IT support. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary a decade ago, Rabbi Jason has made a name for himself as a popular blogger, social media expert, educator and entrepreneur. Based in Detroit, his congregation includes more than a million people who read his blog and follow him in Cyberspace. He began the Jewish Techs blog in January 2010 as the New York Jewish Week's technology expert.

An entrepreneurial rabbi and an alum of Clal's "Rabbi Without Borders" fellowship, Jason Miller is a rabbi and thought leader whose personal blog has been viewed by millions. The Detroit Free Press called him “the most tech-savvy Jewish leader" and the Huffington Post ranked him among the top Jewish Twitter users in the world. A social media expert, Rabbi Jason is a popular speaker and writer on technology and its effect on the Jewish world. He writes the "Jewish Techs" blog for The Jewish Week and the monthly "Jews in the Digital Age" column for the Detroit Jewish News.

Miller won the 2012 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the West Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce and is one of the winners of a Jewish Influencer award from the National Jewish Outreach Program.

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