What is your birthday in the Jewish calendar? Your friend’s? When’s Passover this year? How about ten years from now? The original Jewish Calendar for the Mac returns to Lion, now available on the Mac App Store. Provides conversion between the Gregorian (secular) calendar and the Jewish calendar. Look up holidays or any date, for [...]
Mellel is a sophisticated, time-tested and reliable word processor, especially designed to handle long and complicated documents, books, manuscripts, dissertations, and so on. Mellel was written from the ground up as a multilingual word processor. It offers the best support on the Mac for languages such as Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac, not to mention Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Greek, [...]
One might think that rabbinical students spend much of their days sitting in the beit midrash arguing over sections of the Talmud containing the debates of the medieval sages. That’s only partially correct. When I was in rabbinical school, I remember the arguments we had (students and teachers) over which is the best Hebrew word processor. [...]
Birkat Hamazon known in English as the Grace After Meals, in Yiddish bentshn “to bless” and in Yinglish as Benching is a set of Hebrew blessings that Jewish Law prescribes following a meal that includes bread or matzah made from one or all of wheat, barley, rye, oats, spelt. RustyBrick has built Bencher – Status Bar Menu Birkat HaMazon app for your Mac, running OS 10.5 or greater. It contains [...]
Jewish Calendar for Mac is a way to follow all the Jewish events for the year. Jewish Calendar enables you to convert every gregorian day format into the Hebrew date. For the month, you have an overview of all upcoming Shabbats and holidays. Click on an event to see a short description or a Parasha, [...]
Davka Corporation have released an Habet Ushma Plus Mac app in the Mac App Store. ‘Habet Ushma‘ is Hebrew for ‘look and listen‘, and the program teaches modern Hebrew conversational basics via time-tested techniques combining recognition of letters and words with audio pronunciation. Habet Ushma Plus consists of 20 conversational Hebrew lessons, based on common [...]
