Tag: Bat Mitzvah
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Chai Tech’s Online Bar Mitzvah Prep
In the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Jewish Journal, David A. Schwartz recently wrote about Rabbi Andrew Jacobs’ online bar mitzvah training program called Chai Tech: When Evangelina Ruskin, 11, of Wellington has her bat mitzvah in two years, it will be at the same Plantation synagogue where her father Ryan Ruskin had his bar mitzvah. But…
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Bar Mitzvah & Bat Mitzvah Prep Goes High Tech in Digital Age
In the Coen Brother’s movie “A Serious Man,” we see young Danny practicing his haftorah for his bar mitzvah by listening to the cantor’s rendition of it on his record player. That scene was undoubtedly sentimental for Jewish men of a certain age who prepared for their bar mitzvah by keying up the phonograph in…
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Bat Mitzvah and Bar Mitzvah Lessons on the Web
Why shlepp your daughter 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 more convenient for them and their students. If dating, shopping and watching…
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Jewish Schools and Technology: More Wired Than Ever Before
Many 30- and 40-year-olds will remember when a cart with a computer and monitor was wheeled into the classroom and students formed a single line waiting for a chance to use the device for a few minutes. Perhaps it was typing out a few lines of code in BASIC to move the cursor several inches…