Rabbinical Schools Tweeting
A few weeks ago, it dawned on me, there are a few rabbinical schools out there tweeting and I thought to myself, “I wonder if anyone’s written about it?” I haven’t seen anything…
Is Wayne Firestone the Jewish Steve Jobs? II
Last week, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life held its second annual Hillel Institute, a conference for Hillel professionals throughout North America and beyond (it also held an Engagement Institute on the…
Incorporating QR Codes, Microsoft Tag, and More Into Jewish Organizations
You may have noticed in many places around, whether in magazine advertisements, bus stop shelters, billboards or other places there are 2D barcodes. Invented over a decade and a half ago in Japan…
One Place You Won’t Find Godwin’s Law in Effect: Rabbinic Listservs
In the several years that I have been on one rabbinic listserv and one year on a second one (there’s even a third one I’m on, I think, as well), I have seen…
Is Wayne Firestone the Jewish Steve Jobs?
Last week, I attended the Hillel Institute in St. Louis , with many others. It was a nice time, including the first night’s well-run Pub Night that had followed the [non-plenary] plenary session…
How Not To Twitter as a Jewish Organization: The Example of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
I’m no social media expert, but I’ve been twittering for a moment and have come to understand certain elements of it. Right now, I’m in day #2 of three days of the Pre-Hillel…
Rabbi Pruzansky, Orthopraxy, and Rabbahs
In this week’s issue of The Jewish Press, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky wrote, in his “The Rise of Orthopraxy”, that while Orthodoxy literally means “correct belief” but in actuality encompasses an entire range of…
