Tag: Prayer
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Can We Have a Virtual Minyan With Skype?
It was 1998 and I was in my first semester of rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary. My Talmud professor, Rabbi Avram Israel Reisner, approached me after class one day to discuss a project he was working on. As a member of the Conservative Movement’s Law Committee, he was examining the acceptability of a…
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Mobile Apps for Bentching and Studying Torah
Apple’s downloadable mobile apps are more popular now. So it makes sense that there has been a wave of new applications created for these devices. Some are good and useful, while others… well, let’s just say I’m not going to take the time to write a bad review. Rabbi Eli Garfinkel, now calling himself “The App-ter…