In 2014, my four-year-old will learn the aleph bet. Teacher Eric’s songs at preschool will help, but most of this will happen through some great Hebrew videos and apps. In 2014, I’ll probably fail in my quest to get my one-year-old daughter to her next birthday without the iPad. But I’ll make myself feel better…
Where would you go to learn Torah, not only from famous rabbis like Lawrence Kushner, but also feminist rapper Hesta Prynn and legal pundit Dahlia Lithwick? It wouldn’t be to any synagogue, JCC or school. In fact, you wouldn’t even have to leave your home. G-dcast, created by Jewish educational entrepreneur Sarah Lefton and writer…
One of the more creative takes I’ve seen on the weekly Torah portion is G-dcast, an animated Webcast that invites a different writer each week to offer their own 4-minute narration of that week’s parsha. It’s a brilliant idea, and often brilliantly executed, offering a unique take on the dvar Torah, and, in some cases,…
Sarah Lefton, a San Francisco-based Jewish innovator, who was responsible for giving the world the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy, which sold schmattes bearing clever semitic slogans, has a cool new conspiracy brewing. This time, her co-conspirators include those learned in the ways of Torah and those learned in the ways of animation. The result is the…
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