Come2Israel  is a simple way to find and book a hotel in Israel. The Come2Israel app offers a quick, easy and secure way to fully compare from more than 340 Hotels in Israel, with full and updated information about each and every hotel. There are a lot of apps offering Hotel booking services in locations all [...]

JLife Guides is a worldwide  Jewish travel network. You can finally find everything Jewish around you, wherever you are around the world. Looking for a kosher or Jewish style restaurant?  JLife has the most comprehensive database of these restaurants in the world. Discover known and unknown synagogues, monuments, and historic places, wherever you are. Find [...]

Want your kids to learn the piano but can’t afford those expensive private lessons?  Award-winning interactive video game developer JoyTunes* released a new iPad game called Piano Dust Buster that teaches the piano in an interactive way, featuring different modes and songs that range in difficulty. The concept of the game is that the player [...]

“Hidden Treasures” by Chaim Kramer and Yitzchok Bell What made Rebbe Nachman different from many other Chassidic masters was his ability to access the mysteries of the Kabbalah and extract practical advice for living life to the fullest. Here the Rebbe elucidates one of the first secrets of Creation,  how G-d went about creating the [...]

This shall be the law of the person afflicted with tzara’at, on the day of his cleansing, he shall be brought to the Kohen — Lev. 14:2 I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited — Oscar Wilde This week’s Torah reading (outside [...]

“Safed – The Mystical City” by Dovid Rosoff “Safed – The Mystical City” takes us on a journey of exploration throughout her vibrant history, from her mysterious roots to the present day. The “golden era” of 16th century Safed comes alive, that enthralling period when Torah giants like Rav Yosef Karo and the holy Arizal [...]

Rabbi Goldberg has had a secret longing all his life to taste a forbidden food … pork. Finally, after many years of internal struggle, he can no longer control himself and decides to give in to his desires. He travels to Europe, far from his hometown and takes a seat in a Michelin starred restaurant. [...]

PocketTorah is designed to help you learn the weekly Torah and Haftarah portion anywhere, on  iPad, iPhone, iPod & Android devices (download here). The developers, Russel Neiss and Rabbi Charlie Schwartz, have also released a web version of the application, that can be viewed in Safari on any desktop or laptop computer. This means that in addition to [...]

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 [...]

“Notes for Pesach – Including erev Pesach coinciding with Shabbos” by Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Raskin A collection of practical Halachos to enhance the awareness and observance of the numerous aspects of Pesach, our Festival of Liberation. “Notes for Pesach” by Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Raskin is available at Jewish e-Books. Format: ebook – Adobe epub File Use: Allowed on multiple devices [...]

Tamar Ansh is an author,  recipe  developer and  food columnist. Her  work  has  appeared  in  Jewish publications  worldwide  including  Mishpacha  Magazine  where  she  was one of  the  leading  food  columnists for  close  to  three  years,  The  Jewish  Press,  Aish.com,  Chabad.org,  Binah  Magazine  for the  Jewish Woman,  and her present  food  column at Hamodia  Magazine  and  Newspaper. She [...]

“Where Earth and Heaven Kiss” by Ozer Bergman Are you looking for a spiritual practice that will calm, strengthen and awaken your heart? A spiritual practice that will ease your mind and strengthen your decision-making? A spiritual practice that requires no specific background or training, no equipment? A spiritual practice that you can take with [...]

Haaretz  (lit. “The Land”) is Israel’s oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew and English in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the International Herald Tribune. In North America, it comes out as a weekly newspaper, combining articles from the Friday edition with a roundup from the rest of the week. Both Hebrew and [...]

When the 16th Annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival tap dances into five theaters March 17 – 27, 2012, audiences will be treated to a globe-spanning love story, war heroes and saviors, taboo-breaking documentaries, tango, klezmer and dancing superstars, and a child’s eye view of the world on film, as well as visiting directors, [...]

The prevalent word in today’s computing world is “devices” – laptops, iPods, smartphones, tablets and other such gadgets. Chances are you have a slew of them, at least some of which are sitting on a shelf or in a drawer because they’re a bit dated. An Israeli startup called Drippler wants to give these sophisticated [...]