“Jewish day schools putting Apple iPads to the test”  by Rabbi Jason Miller WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (JTA) — 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 [...]

Lexifone, Haifa-based company released its star product  real  time  voice translation.  Lexifone  enables  enterprises  to  cater  to clientele  that  does not  speak  the  local  language.  Lexifone  breaks  down  language  barriers  by simply eliminating  them. How does it work? Using any telephone the  user simply dials the Lexifone  number, s peaks and hears the other’s  response in his [...]

The very first of the ten fundamental values of the Israel Defense Forces is the defense of the state, its citizens and its residents. In order to achieve this goal, the IDF utilizes a vast array of modern tools, a few of them so new, it’s hard to believe they exist. 1. The Iron Dome Rocket Defense [...]

The #1 question during Hanukkah is: What is the correct way to spell the name of this holiday? As I blogged about last year, “Since it’s a Hebrew word that is transliterated into English, there are several acceptable spellings. But people still want to know if there is a consensus.” Just as there is no consensus as to [...]

Make Hanukkah (the Festival of Lights) extra special by lighting the Sderot Menorah in your home. Made entirely from kassam rockets that exploded in Israel, its intricate detail and beauty are powerful symbols of the endurance of the Jewish People. The Sderot Menorah demonstrates the triumph of good over evil and the light of Israel [...]

Detroit Brothers Produce Over 500 Mobile Apps. There’s An App For That! Local brothers’ jacAPPS business rolls out more than 500 mobile apps. In what could have easily been mistaken for a scene from HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, two brothers sit at a conference room table in Southfield bouncing ideas off each other for mobile applications that [...]

While Israel’s success story in developing state-of-the-art technology, the Israel Defence Force (IDF), in which service is mandatory for most Israelis, is a useful path for wannabe entrepreneurs. It provides young Israelis with the opportunity to develop a wide array of skills and contacts in an environment where creativity is highly appreciated and encouraged. One [...]

QR Codes in Jewish Education I’m often asked what I think will be the “next big thing” when it comes to technology and Jewish education. Recently, I’ve been focused on QR codes. You know those odd little squares that look like a cross between a thumbprint and a bar code? Scanning that QR code automatically [...]

French anti-racism groups have dropped anti-Semitism suits against Apple after it withdrew a “Jew or not Jew” iPhone app   from its online stores worldwide, the groups’ lawyer said on Thursday (November 24, 2011). Groups including the French Jewish Students Union, SOS Racisme and the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between People had brought a [...]

How long does it take you, approximately, to reach the right extension while calling a service center? One minute if you know the “route” by heart, a few very long minutes if you actually need to listen to the never-ending list of possible extensions. An Israeli team had enough of waiting, listening to extension numbers [...]

An Israeli-American startup, acquired by social networking giant Twitter, claims it can finally help organize the cluster of information on social networks and turn it into relavant and useful information for users. Julpan, a project founded by Ori Allon, had as goal to crunch social activity like status updates, tweets, Facebook likes, and RSS feeds [...]

SawYouAtSinai was started with the simple goal of helping Jewish singles find their soul mates, their bashert. The Midrashim teach that every Jewish soul stood at Sinai with his or her soul mate, bashert, at the giving of the Torah. SawYouAtSinai combines the power of technology, the accessibility of the internet and the personal touch of a [...]

Tweet it to the World, in a dozen languages - Twitrans, sponsored by Israeli startup One Hour Translation allows you to get free, high quality translations of your tweets in 14 languages. If you’ve got something to tell the world, chances are one of the places you’re going to shout it out is on Twitter, where you [...]

CJH Digital Collections provides access to the digital assets of the Center for Jewish History (CJH) and its five partner organizations, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The American Jewish Historical Society, founded in 1892, has extensive collections [...]

It’s like something out of “The Da Vinci Code”: Hundreds of thousands of fragments from medieval religious scrolls are scattered across the globe. How will scholars put them back together? The answer, according to scientists at Tel Aviv University, is to use computer software based on facial recognition technology. But instead of recognizing faces, this software [...]