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 [...]
“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 [...]
Thou Shall Unplug: National Day of Tech Detox, Nurturing, and Community My name is Rabbi Yonah, and I am over-wired. Tethered to my iPhone. Waiting for the ding or buzz to announce some new tidbit of information. Someone re-tweeted. Breaking news from who-knows-where. Is that a txt message? An appointment? At the office the routine [...]
“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 [...]
Called “Klik,” the iPhone app automatically displays your friends’ names in real time when they appear in view of your iPhone’s camera. After “Klik” detects a face, it instantly connects to your Facebook account and scans your friends’ photos to identify the person in view. It also scans your iPhone for photos you’ve tagged on your [...]
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 [...]
Jewish Geography is a fun and challenging app quiz game that measures by how many degrees you’re separated from your own Jewish geographical knowledge. Uniquely different than the traditional “Do you know so-and-so?” degrees of separation kibitzing, every intriguing photo and challenging question in Jewish Geography the app game is related to a geographical location [...]
