“Angels & Demons, Jewish Magic Through The Ages” – new exibition in Bible Lands Museum and… iPhone app. Magic permeates daily Jewish lives to such a degree that life without magic is close to impossible. An interesting fact is that most individuals are unaware that many items in their daily life and many daily actions and [...]
This app is your direct channel to the Almighty G-d. With it you can easily and quickly send a prayer to the Western Wall (also known as “The Kotel“ or the “Wailing Wall” ) and it will be placed in between the stones. Your faith or geographical location does not matter – Holy Jerusalem is [...]
When Matisyahu emerged with his debut album, Shake Off the Dust…Arise, in 2004, his musical persona seemed to some a novelty. Here was a Hasidic Jew, dressed in a black suit with a broad-brimmed black hat worn over a yarmulke, and sporting a full, untrimmed beard, who nevertheless performed toasting raps about the glories of [...]
Developer’s Notes: City Guide is a high quality offline tour guide on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With City Guide, it’s easy to find out the best places to go, such as where to eat,sleep,and drink, before you arrive or when you are there. It also helps you understand the local culture and history. All the [...]
According to the jewish tradition, the praying person must be headed to Jerusalem. It’s ok when you are at home or your local synagogue, but how you know where Jerusalem is when you are out traveling or just in place that you never been before. Don’t worry this app will help you out, just turn [...]
This app displays the Jerubus unofficial bus-map of the city of Jerusalem. It translates your GPS signal to the convenient coordinate system of the map to show your location, so even if you are not local, you will not miss your stop. You can use this app to find points of interest, leisure, education, transportation [...]
Our main purpose for this app is to guide every jewish person in which direction to pray. The Jerusalem Compass points to the Kotel so you can pray towards it. By default, the True East mode is enabled (when the switch is ON). This mode uses your current locations and your compass heading to calculate the [...]
“The Works of Flavius Josephus by Josephus“, tr. by William Whiston Josephus was born Joseph ben Mattathias in 37 C.E. in Jerusalem of a priestly and royal family. He excelled in his studies of Jewish law and studied with the Sadducees, Pharisees, and the Essenes, eventually aligning himself with the Pharisees. In 62 C.E. he went [...]
The purpose of this utility is to show Jerusalem direction for believers around the world. Just open the app and the arrow will point on Jerusalem from any spot in the world. You do not need any internet connection. The app uses iphone built in compass. You can also use this utility in order to find your praying [...]
Jerusalem Sights is a comprehensive navigation tool that shows you every major point of interest overlaid on a map of Jerusalem. Every attraction a tourist would want to see is automatically located for you. Museums, statues, theatres, gardens, parks, monuments and anything else you could want to see – you’ll find it here! You can [...]
Analytical Studies by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of the Rambam’s rulings concerning the construction and the design of the Beis HaMikdash. Amazon.com – Our Sages explain that we are required to constantly “Seek out the welfare of Jerusalem,” to concern ourselves with the Beis HaMikdash is destroyed, studying its structure is considered by [...]
The Mizrach Compass is designed to help you know in which direction Jewish people pray. Technically, it plots the location of the Kodesh Hakodashim (31° 46′ 40.8″ N, 35° 14′ 7.44″ E), which is near the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem. It then uses your current longitude, latitude plus the built in digital compass to [...]
Kotel Notes allows you to write personal wishes and prayers and submit them for real placement within the crevices of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Prayers are printed on notes by charitable organizations, and are placed in the wall within a few weeks. The submission of each prayer is free of charge. “I love this app, [...]
The Wailing Wall application provides a mobile version of the experience at the Wailing Wall in the Old City in Jerusalem! Wailing Wall provides a gently moving picture of the Wall. You can look at the Wall, write prayers, save them, and optionally send them to Project Secret — anonymously — for others to read [...]
Developer’s Notes - ”Jerusalem” is a complete street level map for your iPhone. The entire map is stored on your iPhone, so it works where you have no access to the Internet – it works where Google Maps is inaccessible. This prevents expensive data roaming charges by loading all the map data to your iPhone before [...]
