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The Schmooze Meet the World’s Sassiest Jewish Mother
Every winter, Joshua Seftel faced a recurring problem. With his mother migrating to Sarasota, he found it hard to keep in touch. Email was cumbersome and phone conversations were sparse and stunted. And then came the iPad. When his father passed away a little over three years ago, Seftel bought his mother a shiny new…
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Culture Cantor’s Apps Bring Jewish Prayers To the iPhone Crowd
Despite the fact that he stars in and co-produces iPhone and iPad apps featuring “A Cantor’s Seder,” “High Holiday Highlights,” and blessings for the deceased, all of which are available on pocketshul.com, Cantor Emanuel Perlman remains a traditionalist. The earnest 60-year-old Perlman, hazan at Baltimore’s conservative Chizuk Amuno Congregation, says he has little patience for…
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Opinion The RJC Wants to Give You An iPad 3
Want a new iPad 3? Spend fifty hours phone banking for the Republican Jewish Coalition and the $599 model is yours. Only have forty hours? That’s okay — the RJC can still hook you up with the $499 version. RJC volunteers in California, Washington, New York and Florida who rack up phone banking hours between…
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News Take My iPad, Please!
For the gadget-toting Jew, a recent announcement from the Conservative movement about new Sabbath guidelines on the ban on electronics might sound like a flight attendant’s canned directive before takeoff: no cell phones, smart phones, digital cameras or even e-readers. But beyond the traditional halachic reasons for pressing the “off button” on the Sabbath —…
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Culture Jewish Schools Use iPad
Toward the end of his life, Apple’s visionary leader, Steve Jobs, was visited by another computer innovator, Microsoft’s Bill Gates. The conversation turned to the future of education. As related in Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of Jobs, both men agreed that computers had made surprisingly little impact on schools. “Computers and mobile devices would have…
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The Schmooze On Sale: iPad Cases Made of Bernie Madoff’s Clothing
Bernie Madoff has already inspired his own hot sauce, so why not a line of iPad covers? Frederick James, a company that specializes in iPad cases, has unveiled a new line with an unusually intimate connection to the “notorious felon,” as the Ponzi schemer is described on the firm’s website. In addition to collections including…
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The Schmooze Introducing the iPad Torah
The iPad, the newest of Apple’s technological materials, can now be used to delve into an oldie but a goodie: the Torah. On the iPad, rustybrick.com advertises, the Torah’s 248 columns, or amudim, can be “magically stitched together.” The application enables the user to easily find the weekly Torah portion complete with bookmarks and a…
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