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2 October 2008
NonProfit 2.0 DC: Embracing the New Web
While we normally don’t post events or promote outside or inside events here on Jewneric, I think this is appropriate to many of you, our readers.
I am producing a series of seminars for Non-Profits, the first of which will be held in Washinton, DC on October 27th, 2008.
NonProfit 2.0: Embracing the New Web - “General [...]
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8 September 2008
Yeshiva University Employs Transgender Professor
An article published today in the New York Post discusses Literature Professor Joy Ladin, formerly known as Jay Ladin. I implore you to read this article and post your comments here. We at Jewneric are interested in hearing your opinion on this matter.
http://tinyurl.com/69lgkp
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3 September 2008
The Friendship Jewneric Opportunity
Hey Jewneric Family, I want to share with you an incredible opportunity to help the Jewish community at large. The friendship Circle in West Bloomfield is holding its third annual Walk4Friendship. And I think that this is something we can get involved in. The friendship circle has over 70 locations worldwide, and has just opened [...]
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12 August 2008
Where Zionism Lives
By: Michael Dickson
The despondency that marks the two year anniversary of the recent war in Lebanon is, for me, mitigated by the happy anniversary of my Aliyah, which coincides with it. Packing to move to Israel as rockets rained down on the North and the IDF was being tested by Hizbullah was a strange experience [...]
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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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19 June 2008
My Advice: Buy Renter’s Insurance!
This past Friday night my wife and I experienced something that we hope no one else ever has to experience in their lives… fire. When we returned from our Shabbat dinner around the corner around 12AM, we saw 5 firetrucks surrounding our corner. My friends and neighbors quickly let us know that it was our [...]
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13 June 2008
The State of Israel Advocacy on and off Campus
Yesterday I awoke at 4:30am in New York, to attend a 9:30am meeting in D.C. Not fun. However, the meeting that took place was a lot more enjoyable and energizing than previously anticipated.
The ICC (Israel on Campus Coalition) hosted its end of the school year meeting, which brought in representatives from 33 Israel [...]
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23 May 2008
Terrorist Chic
A few days ago I noticed a strange sight on subway platform. A young man waiting for the train was wearing a scarf, which was not so strange given the weather. But this was no ordinary scarf; it was an Arab kaffiyeh. And the young man was no Arab; he was a [...]
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1 May 2008
Genetic Markers to Identify Lost Ones
There are four letters of the genetic alphabet - A, C, T and G - which pair up and create your DNA. Thanks to modern technology, a scientist named Syd Mandelbaum, who had been part of the Anastasia Romanov disproving effort of 1994, started the DNA Shoah Project. Through the use of these [...]

