In my February 2013 “Compuschmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, as a nod to the Jewish holiday Tu b’shevat, the “new year for trees,” I survey some websites that marry Jewish ethical values with the values of sustainability and environmentalism.
In my latest Compuschmooze™ column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, “Encryption tools have drawbacks, but will keep your emails private,” I talk about how people forget that email is very insecure, and suggest some ways you can make it more secure and private.
Simchat Torah service at Temple Emanuel, Cherry Hill, NJ, on October 7 included a Torah hakafah (procession) and the unrolling of one of our oldest Torah scrolls, a 250-year old Czechoslovakian Torah that survived the Holocaust. It’s the first time in many years that we’ve completely unrolled a Torah, and members chanted from each book…
The CompuSchmooze podcast returns with an interview about event planning online, with our guest, Vanessa Schneider, senior public relations manager of Eventbrite.com, an online event organizing site. Listen to the podcast here: Read the article based on this interview in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. Vanessa Hope Schneider, Senior Public Relations Manager,…
In the second Jewish Sacred Aging seminar podcast, we offer Rabbi Address’ recent workshop, “Three Program Ideas for Congregations and Baby Boomers,” presented this month at the regional Shabbaton of the Union for Reform Judaism. Rabbi Address’ workshop is based on his newest book, Seekers of Meaning. (Click on the book’s title to purchase.) We…
Jewish Sacred Aging presents its first seminar podcast, featuring a workshop conducted by Rabbi Address at M’kor Shalom in Cherry Hill, NJ on “The Art of Care-Giving.” This program is part of the synagogue’s Health and Wellness Initiative, which is based on the care-giving chapter in Rabbi Address’s newest book, Seekers of Meaning. (Click on…
This was an interesting story from The Jewish Week about Jewish day schools employing technology. I know that Kellman Brown Academy here in South Jersey has computers in many classrooms, and SmartBoard technology is embedded in most, if not all of the classrooms. We saw some of this recently on a video shoot at Kellman…
In this episode of the Middle Chamber Books and Music Podcast, we speak with Michael Kesler, Ph.D., author of Shards of War: Fleeing To & From Uzbekistan, his memoir of the harrowing experience he and his sister Luba encountered as Jewish teenagers fleeing the Ukraine ahead of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in…
We specialize in creating dramatic and unusual images from conferences. We’re not just creating your father’s “grip-and-grin” images. Our meeting photography Rutgers Quarterly Business Outlook Leadership New Jersey Temple Emanuel Men’s Club
In this edition of the Compuschmooze podcast, we report on the March “Net Tuesday” meeting held in Philadelphia by Net Squared, a group that “enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.” At the March meeting, presenters discussed how social media tools are aiding volunteers and first responders in major international…
