Category: Jewish Techs Blog
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Ford Motor Company’s New Jewish CEO
Ford Motor Company has announced that Mark Fields will become the company’s next CEO replacing Alan Mulally. Presumably Henry Ford is rolling in his grave since Fields, a Jewish man whose family changed the last name from Finkelman in a previous generation, will be running the company the notorious anti-Semite founded in June 1903. I first…
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Jewish Holidays? There’s An App for That!
I wasn’t surprised that a reporter from the New York Times contacted me about mobile apps for Passover this year. I was just surprised it took her that long. Jennifer Medina, a reporter for the NY Times, called my cellphone a couple days before the first Passover seder this year. I excused myself from my…
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Tanach Bible Mobile App from Davka Corporation
As a self-identified non-iPhone user I find myself waiting for great apps to make their way to the Android platform. I wonder if left-handed folks experience something similar when they have to special order everything from golf clubs to scissors. But living in an iPhone dominated world seems tolerable for those of us who really…
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The 2014 New York Venture Summit
June 16-17, 2014 | Digital Sandbox | New York City Where Innovation Meets Capital NYCJewishTech is pleased to announce its sponsorship and invite you to attend New York’s largest Annual Venture Summit Special discount. Use promo code “nycjewishtech” and receive $100 off the current rate. Come meet, interact and network with more than 500 VCs, Corporate VCs, angel…
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Tikkun Olam of Disruptive Tech: New Trends in Technology 2014
Tikkun Olam means “fixing the world” in Hebrew, but it’s often translated as social action. A new feature on the Goldman Sachs website is called “25 Ways We Saw The World Change” and comes from the financial company’s recent 2013 annual report. The listing has 7 technology related items and each of these is relevant…
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Shabbat Scooter from Amigo and Zomet Institute
A reporter at the Detroit News asked me about a motorized scooter that can be used by observant Jews on Shabbat. She wanted a local rabbi’s help in understanding why a scooter wasn’t permissible on Shabbat and why this scooter was acceptable. It was fortuitous that she contacted me since I am already familiar with…
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Will a Torah Go to the Moon on a Google Spacecraft?
An Israeli-based team is hoping to send a Torah scroll to the moon’s surface. Reports are coming out of Israel that a scroll of the sacred Torah might be an item added to the Google spacecraft through the Google Lunar XPrize mission, which is a competition for private companies to land a vehicle on the moon. The Torah would…
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Camp Inc. Set to Launch for Next Mark Zuckerberg Entrepreneur
Brad Simtob, 13, attended Camp Tamarack for two summers and then spent a summer at Camp Walden. But these sleepaway camps just didn’t cut it for him so last year he tried a couple day camps in the area. This summer will be different for the West Bloomfield teen who recently got bit by the entrepreneurial bug. The 8th grader at Hillel Day School…