Technology
The Text and Technology
Steven M. Brown
It’s just not the same thing! How can you compare sitting at the feet of a great teacher, holding a sefer kodesh, a thick tome, printed in Hebrew with commentaries around the margins, with studying Talmud on the Internet? How can you compare the rich, sensual experience of feeling aging paper, smelling newsprint, [...]
In Defense of the Inaccessible
Mark Bleiweiss
Possibly the greatest boon for the modern Jew with a modem is the radical accessibility of Jewish learning through the Internet. Not since hakhel – when the king called the entire Jewish people together for a spectacular Torah reading – has mass education been as exciting and well received. Torah is available today to [...]
Lost and Found? The Perpetual Search for Community
Kerry Olitzky
When I was eight years old, my family left Squirrel Hill, one of the last of the colorful transdenominational Jewish enclaves in North America. We moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where – in the early 1960s – most of its local residents, had never even met a Jew. Midway through high school, I decided [...]
