Tech
Is Our Problem The Technology Or The Users?
Pin It A good player doesn’t blame his equipment when he drops the ball. He knows that rain or shine, it’s up to him to make the play. Is technology... Read More »
Is There a Bright Future for the KosherSwitch®?
Pin It 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,... Read More »
Steve Jobs, The Beatles and Revolutionizing Jewish Philanthropy
Pin It 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,... Read More »
Thriving on Turmoil, a TEDxTelAviv production
Pin It 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... Read More »
After 20 years, AIPAC is still behind the curve on how to use the Internet
Pin It 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... Read More »
A Jeff Pulver Breakfast in Tel Aviv
Pin It 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... Read More »
Young Geeks gather in Israel
Pin It 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... Read More »
The Jewish Leadership Series: Jeremy Epstein
Pin It 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... Read More »
Gary Vaynerchuk is a Real Mentch!
Pin It 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... Read More »
Wordle Shows Visual Representations of Any Text with Cool Biblical Implacations
Pin It 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... Read More »
MashBash Tel Aviv – The Official Jewneric.com Report
Pin It 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... Read More »
Google’s Holocaust Memorial Portal
Pin It 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... Read More »
The Chosen Keyboard
Pin It 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... Read More »
The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines
Pin It 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,... Read More »
Google, Yahoo & Facebook Officials to Attend Jerusalem Tech Conference
Pin It 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... Read More »
“Purgamentum Init, Exit Pecuniam,” or “Wow, Staten Island Can Now Rival an Oil-Rich Arab Country!”
Pin It 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... Read More »
Would you let someone shoot you with a puke ray?
Pin It 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... Read More »
Israel vs. Google
Pin It 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.... Read More »
New Jet Will Get You from New York to Tel Aviv in Under 3 Hours
Pin It 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... Read More »
Israel’s Robots Part I: Suicide Bomber Inspection
Pin It 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... Read More »
