All posts by Hadassah Levy
Jews Who Tweet: Meet @raffeg
Pin It Why did you initially join Twitter? I originally joined Twitter just because I thought that I had to be on every social network imaginable. Years of bullying and... Read More »
Jews Who Tweet: Meet @JYuter
Pin It Why did you initially join Twitter? I actually joined Twitter as a front end to Facebook. I figured since I’m posting the same basic content, if I did... Read More »
Jews Who Tweet: Meet @hsabomilner
Pin It Why did you initially join Twitter? I had heard buzz that there was a new thing online and I wanted to check it out. Initially my Twitter account... Read More »
Jews Who Tweet: Meet @bethanyshondark
Pin It Why did you initially join Twitter? I initially joined Twitter in October 2008 because my best friend, a techie, wouldn’t stop talking about it. How did you get... Read More »
Is there a Jewish community on Twitter?
Pin It We tend to think about Jewish communities (and communities, in general) in terms of location and self-definition. But the world of Web 2.0 allows us to go beyond... Read More »
The Dead Sea Scrolls Are on Display…Where?
Pin It The Dead Sea Scrolls are on display in Times Square. Yes, Times Square. They share a space at Discovery Times Square with an exhibition about the TV show,... Read More »
Who Goes to Shul?
Pin It After World War II, new synagogues opened all over the United States. Jews had started to move to suburbia and away from New York. Wherever they went, they... Read More »
Non-Orthodox Rabbis and Israel
Pin It I just read an absolutely shocking statistic: 12 percent of the Jewish Theological Seminary rabbinical students are “uncomfortable” with Israel’s being a “Jewish state”! One would have thought... Read More »
Rabbi and Former MK Chanan Porat Passes Away at 67
Pin It Rabbi Porat was born in 1943, in Kfar Pines, before the establishment of the state. In his youth, he studied at the Kerem B’Yavne and Merkaz Harav yeshivas.... Read More »
What’s Wrong with the Middle East?
Pin It We are constantly being told that the major problem of the Middle East is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. For those of us who follow this... Read More »
Pre-Rosh Hashanah Jewish Social Media Round-Up
Pin It I always find it interesting to look at which stories are popular in the Jewish social media world. Admittedly, this is not a scientific study. Instead, I rely... Read More »
