Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice Archives: June 2008
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30 June 2008
Real Estate, Real Problem
I grew up in a pretty insular community. I went to a Jewish school, had carpools to take me to and from wherever I was going, and almost never used public transportation until I was in college. It’s not that I didn’t like non-Jews or had anything against them - they seemed alright when I [...]
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27 June 2008
Gary Vaynerchuk is a Real Mentch!
Last night I had the unique opportunity to hear from and talk to web personality, wine expert, and tremendously nice guy, Gary Vaynerchuk, of Wine Library TV. I first “met” Gary online some months ago. After hearing his name for almost two years, it was highly recommended to me by a few friends [...]
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27 June 2008
What a Dump!
Here’s a Friday morning outing you’ve probably never considered: A trip to the dump. But not just any dump. The Hiria dump – an 80-meter high blight on the landscape that no commuter traveling on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway could miss.
Now Hiria is being transformed from its formerly stinky state into the Ariel Sharon National [...]
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25 June 2008
Israel Rehearses Iran Attack
U.S. intelligence analysts say that nearly 100 Israeli warplanes staged a rehearsal air strike against nuclear facilities in Iran. David Martin from CBS News reports from the Pentagon.
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25 June 2008
Mapping the Holy Land
With the Spertus Museum’s recent “censorship” of its exhibit of Holy Land maps, it is especially nice to see that famous (and autistic) artist Stephen Wiltshire has drawn Jerusalem.
One blog says Wiltshire also wants to draw Tel Aviv, and quotes: “Jerusalem was the hardest city I’ve ever encountered to draw. There are many tiny details [...]
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24 June 2008
Wordle Shows Visual Representations of Any Text with Cool Biblical Implacations
Today, someone sent me the link to a new web 2.0 site, Wordle. Wordle gives you a tag cloud of any text you put in. Someone already mashed up Vayikra (Leviticus), Rus (Ruth) and Tehillim (Psalms) - shown below. Other really cool examples are the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence.
It’s [...]
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24 June 2008
A Bubble Of A World
While at work, and in dire need of entertainment, my friend sent me a link to a restaurant review and urged me to look down to comment #25. Comment #25 was posted by a woman wanting to know if this is a good place for her to bring her children for dinner in the city. [...]
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24 June 2008
Another World (Or Why I Now Love Tel Aviv)
My wife Jody and I will be married 20 years this summer. We decided to take an early anniversary trip last week. Originally we thought of going to a spa hotel, but all the spas we liked were booked. We opted instead of a day in Tel Aviv. It turned out to be both eye [...]
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24 June 2008
Candy Man
There was no one so frightening as the man who sat in the farthest back row of the synagogue. To most adults he was friendly and harmless, but we children knew better. We approached him with great care and trepidation. He never looked you straight in the eye, but he knew you were there. He [...]
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23 June 2008
To Err is Human, To Eruv is Jewish
For the past few weeks I’ve been reporting for the Long Island Jewish World. The big issue that I am covering is the newest eruv debate. You’ve heard the debates in all their various forms from other locations, and in most recent memory- the one originating from Tenafly, NJ. The new municipality [...]