Tech
Is There a Bright Future for the KosherSwitch®?
Buffer Orthodox Judaism often struggles with new technology. Its top problem is a simple question: “Can you use this on Shabbat?” While this sometimes comes up with manual/mechanical items, any... Read More »
Steve Jobs, The Beatles and Revolutionizing Jewish Philanthropy
Buffer With the passing of the legendary Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple, I was contemplating how he revolutionized and shaped multiple industries, from computers, to work style, telecom,... Read More »
Thriving on Turmoil, a TEDxTelAviv production
Buffer Israel is now officially 62 years old. While the Israeli banks were extremely prepared for the economic turmoil America caused and while Israeli start-ups continue to become major... Read More »
After 20 years, AIPAC is still behind the curve on how to use the Internet
Buffer Around twenty years ago when I was at MIT, I spent far more hours than I care to contemplate combating anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel propaganda on Usenet. This was... Read More »
A Jeff Pulver Breakfast in Tel Aviv
Buffer Yesterday morning, while going through the 150 or so feeds I try to keep up with, I came upon this video. A report on Jeff Pulver‘s breaksfast in Tel... Read More »
Young Geeks gather in Israel
Buffer Israelis are full of ideas. The Silicon Wadi is only behind the Silicon Valley in terms of sheer numbers startups. One guy, Shai Agassi, is working on a viable... Read More »
The Jewish Leadership Series: Jeremy Epstein
Buffer Jewneric recently had the opportunity to speak with Jeremy Epstein, Word of Mouth & Social Media Consultant and a prominent Jewish leader. We asked him a series of questions... Read More »
Gary Vaynerchuk is a Real Mentch!
Buffer 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... Read More »
Wordle Shows Visual Representations of Any Text with Cool Biblical Implacations
Buffer 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... Read More »
MashBash Tel Aviv – The Official Jewneric.com Report
Buffer MashBash TLV the Official Jewneric.com Media Partner Report Last night, as previously reported, I had the pleasure of being a sponsored guest to MashBash TLV. For those who still... Read More »
Google’s Holocaust Memorial Portal
Buffer I wish I had seen this last week. It’s good to see that Google is using its resources as one of the largest and most powerful information gateways to... Read More »
The Chosen Keyboard
Buffer For a long time there have been only a few options if you wanted Hebrew on your keyboard. Your options were to spend two hours pasting stickers onto your... Read More »
The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines
Buffer I just stumbled on a Wired article from November of 2004 which profiles Jonah Ottensoser, an engineer for the Star-K. “A retired helicopter engineer who is himself Orthodox, Ottensoser... Read More »
Google, Yahoo & Facebook Officials to Attend Jerusalem Tech Conference
Buffer Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, will be attending the upcoming technical conference arranged by President Shimon Peres, to be held at Jerusalem’s Binyanei Ha’uma International Convention... Read More »
“Purgamentum Init, Exit Pecuniam,” or “Wow, Staten Island Can Now Rival an Oil-Rich Arab Country!”
Buffer Reading one of my new favorite blogs (greenprophet.com) has caused me to ponder: Can the country that created a veritable oasis out of a desert simultaneously solve waste issues,... Read More »
Would you let someone shoot you with a puke ray?
Buffer Sharon Weinberger has written an article for Wired’s Danger Room about her experience as the subject of a test involving a Sonic Blaster at a Jeruslaem hotel. Sharon’s reaction... Read More »
Israel vs. Google
Buffer The city of Kiryat Yam is suing Google for a description which was posted on Google Earth that portrays the history of the city in a negative light. The... Read More »
New Jet Will Get You from New York to Tel Aviv in Under 3 Hours
Buffer Imagine flying to Israel and back in a day and still being able to get in a whole day’s worth of work, play and spiritual uplifting. That could be... Read More »
Israel’s Robots Part I: Suicide Bomber Inspection
Buffer In the past few days, Annalee Newitz, editor of IO9, has come under fire for the images that she posted of what appears to be a bomb disposal robot... Read More »
The Wisdom of the Ancient World Gets Some Good Press!
Buffer An article in Slate Magazine from April 10, 1998, by Steven E. Landsburg, discusses the way in which modern economic theory backs up the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.... Read More »
