Anne’s Amsterdam is the name of a new phone app launched by the Anne Frank House. The app helps users gain an understanding of events in Amsterdam during World War II by using the story of Anne Frank as a central theme. Users will be shown a city map with icons on locations that played a [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

Rabbinically approved personal guide to Taharat Hamishpacha observance Mikvah Calendar  iPhone and Android app automatically calculates all important dates and times according to your custom:  Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Chabad customs. Requires internet access. After 60 days, membership as low as $16/year is required. Service MikvahCalendar.com has been expertly approved and recommended by Rabbis, Yotzaot, and Kallah [...]

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 [...]

How many Jewish actors are you able to recognize?  Test and improve your knowledge with new iPhone app. Play the game on your own or with friends. It’s supposed to be fun, but you’re guaranteed to learn something too. The best source of this information is self-identification by the person himself; however, in some cases, sources [...]

“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 [...]

Yeshiva University’s Torah Online site is a commitment to spread Torah learning throughout the world. It offers more than 50,000 shiurim via webcast in audio, video and text formats by our Roshei Yeshiva and other YU luminaries. Now you can study Torah using  Yeshiva University’s resources also via iPhone app. This application is dedicated in honor of [...]

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. [...]

The Ohel Yaacob app gives you all the up to date schedules, announcements and events for the shul. The Ohel Yaacob Synagogue in Deal,  NJ serves the Sephardic Orthodox Communities of the Jersey Shore Areas and abroad. The Ohel Yaacob Synagogue was established in 1983. App includes: Weekday Schedule Holiday Schedule Shabbat Schedule Events & Announcements [...]

Publishers Weekly announced few days ago that Lerner Digital, Lerner Publishing Group’s two-year-old digital publishing division, has launched the Kar-Ben eBookstore, which is selling e-books for children with Jewish themes. “We are thrilled to make our complete eBook collection easily accessible to our customers via the new Kar-Ben eBookstore, which allows simple online purchasing and reading [...]

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 [...]

People of the eBooks is an Israeli portal to a world of original and classic digital books about everything and anything Jewish. Writers are from all over the world and books include texts in English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and Swedish. Authors: Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, Malka Touger, Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rabbi Chanan Morrison, Uri Kaploun, Yaakov Kirschen, Moshe Arens, Gedaliah Gurfein,  Rabbi [...]

The signs of a kosher animal In order to serve God properly, we need to train our natural animalistic drive—the animal soul—to stretch beyond its natural limitations. This involves two stages: a) Split hooves. The split hoof is effectively a double hoof. This teaches us that our actions in the service of God—represented by the foot, [...]