iBracha app offers ready-made Hebrew greeting cards for every occasion. App  contains a variety of ready-made templates with backgrounds and texts that can be combined to create custom greeting cards for a variety of occasions: Pesach, Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, Shavuot, Hanukkah, Purim, birthdays, weddings and more. You can send greetings as a MMS, by email as a cool image [...]

Any Tolkein fans will recognise Gollum’s famous riddle to the hobbit: This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town; And beats high mountain down. And of course when our hobbit panics and pleads for more “time, time” to work out the [...]

According to the Torah, we are obligated to count the days from Passover to Shavuot. This period is known as the Counting of the Omer. An omer is a unit of measure. On the second day of Passover, in the days of the Temple, an omer of barley was cut down and brought to the Temple [...]

Throughout the world, young and old alike enjoy the festive bonfires of  Lag B’Omer and the delicious cheesecake of  Shavuot. That said, we need to perform the act of Sefiras HaOmer, counting the Omer (all the way from the holiday of Passover to Shavuot), to reach these dates. And yet, understanding the mechanics and spiritual significance of [...]

There is a mitzvah of counting the 49 days, known as Sefirat Ha’Omer. The Omer is counted from the second night of  Passover through the night before Shavuot. It is best to count the Omer at nightfall, immediately after the evening prayer. Ultimate Omer 2 is a Sefirat Ha’Omer app for iOS created by Moshe Berman (more his apps). It [...]

It’s time to put your Chametz into the history. The night before Passover demands Chametz to be nowhere near you. We launch a genuine “search and destroy” mission. The enemy is Chametz (leavened products that are forbidden to be consumed during Passover), or any kind of a trace of it. For the time of this holiday [...]

There’s one thing that comes to your mind when thinking about the time of  Pesach. The thing is sheer craziness! The maddest few weeks of the year. The thorough cleaning, shopping, Seder planning all these usually starts for several weeks prior to the “night different from all other nights“.  And what’s the story with all [...]

Passover: The Journey to Freedom is yet another app from StoryChimes. The story tells us of the Jewish Exodus from Egypt, the 10 plagues sent by G-d onto Egyptians before the Pharaoh agreed to set his Israelite slaves free,  Jews’ great rush while leaving Egypt, the rush so enormous that they didn’t even have time [...]

Interpretations of the weekly Torah readings and the Festivals based on the Talks of  The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Throughout the Rebbe Shlita’s nesius, he has shown a special regard and concern for children. The many children’s rallies and Tzivos HaShem activities demonstrate the great affinity the Rebbe shows for children and the [...]

Tizkor Omer is  ”Yet Another” עומר (omer) app for iPhone.  It does what the other עומר apps do, but better. The features speak for themselves… – Push notification: A reminder is sent to your iPhone at 9:00pm according to your time zone.  This built in to the app at no extra charge. – Application icon [...]

An introduction to the religion and traditions of Judaism. This app will give you an experience with beautiful graphics on both the iPad and the iPhone / iPod Touch platforms. The app contains information on Jewish history as well as major Jewish holidays such as Passover, Hanukkah, Purim, and Rosh Hashanah. Features: – Shake for [...]

Jewish Cal is the most comprehensive Jewish and Hebrew calendar ever produced. Here are just some of  the features included: Holidays & events Events: See Jewish & Israeli events and holidays in a Secular (Gregorian), Jewish or Hebrew calendar view. Includes the Sefiras Ha’omer count. You can even add your own events such as a [...]

Hebrew Calendar show hebrew and gregorian date on one screen Show Holidays, Parashat Shavua, Sefirat Ha’omer Show Halachic times (sunrise sunset…) for current location by GPS Show time of  ”Molad” for Rosh Chodesh לוח שנה עברי לועזי על מסך אחד מציג חגים, פרשת השבוע, ספירת העומר מציג את זמני ההלכה זריחה שקיעה ועוד לפי מיקום [...]

iParashah Jewish Holidays is the ultimate source that brings to your Jewish iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad all you need to know about Holidays, as well as, a Jewish Calendar of all the Jewish and Israeli Holidays until 2030. The relevant Torah portion that should be read in the Holiday, and a Hebrew date converter, all [...]

App iZkor brings you the text for the mourning rituals in Judaism that are said in all prayer services as well as at funerals and memorials. Yizkor means “remembrance” in Hebrew. Yizkor should be recited in a synagogue with a minyan. It is an custom, primarily in Ashkenazi synagogues,  for those who have both parents living [...]