Tag: Tech
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Rabbi Danny Nevins Writes New Book on Torah and Technology
From The Jewish Standard (by Joanne Palmer) Rabbi Nevins, who grew up in River Vale, spent 13 years as a congregational rabbi in Detroit, another 13 years as the dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s rabbinical school, and now he’s head of school at the Golda Och Academy in West Orange. He’s also (in his…
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Lost Tribe Esports- Video Games for the Jewish People
I encountered Lost Tribe Esports at the 2019 JCC Maccabi Games at Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit in West Bloomfield. Situated in the Teen Center of the JCC (which was the Holocaust Memorial Museum when I was a teen), I found dozens of Jewish teens playing video games. At first, I was a little…
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Say Hallelujah and Pass the Remote
From the Wall Street Journal Temple Israel, a reform synagogue in suburban Detroit, undertook a substantial renovation a few years ago. The makeover included a spruced-up atrium and social hall, new display cases, and the installation of two video screens flanking the pulpit. The screens made their debut in 2017 during Rosh Hashana services with…
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Women Key to Israel’s Tech Growth
From Start-Up-Daily Now in its seventh year, Birthright Excel helps create a network of young Jewish business leaders around the world while also introducing future entrepreneurs to Israel as a place for business opportunities. The program is geared for college sophomores, juniors and select seniors. Participants are assigned an internship at a prominent global…
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Haifa Israel Team Creates Intel’s Fastest-Ever Processor
Intel Corp. announced Tuesday its most advanced, next-level processor, whose development was led by its facility in Haifa, Israel, with the promise of a double-digit rise in computer performance, longer battery life and better security. The seventh-generation new Intel Core enhanced 14-nanometer-plus processor, called Kaby Lake, is its “strongest and fastest ever,” Intel said in…
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Israel’s Top Startups
Israel has become a very popular place for entrepreneurs to launch their startups, Tel Aviv in particular has become home for many tech based and other startups. This is because brilliant businessmen and women who have graduated from Israeli universities had dreams of making it big, even outside their country. If someone will look into…
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Israeli Device Saving American Lives in Afghanistan
From David Shamah at The Times of Israel: When American troops are injured in the field, the first piece of life-saving medical equipment they may come into contact with nowadays is an Israeli-invented mini-sized manual ventilator. And not just American soldiers on the battlefield; the Pocket BVM has been used to treat thousands of people…
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Hillel Fuld in TechCrunch: Despite Unrest the Israeli Tech Ecosystem is Growing
From TechCrunch: Over the past few months, violence has once again scarred Israel and the Palestinian Territories, yet despite the violence and the losses on both sides of the conflict, technology companies in the region are flourishing. Israeli rounds of financing, both into Israeli companies and from local investors are on the rise. Several Israeli VCs…
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Insights from sFBI’s Natalie Edward during Content Israel 2015 Conference
By Alan Weinkrantz Due to travel, I missed the Content Israel 2015 Conference, I really wanted to attend. If you are a startup, or for that matter, any company or organization looking at your content strategies for 2016, there’s a lot you can learn from sFBI’s Natalie Edwards. Natalie is Marketing Director for sFBI, a…
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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…