We are pleased to welcome guest blogger, Sue Loubser, Director of Technology at Greenfield Hebrew Academy, Atlanta, Georgia, who shares the story behind the development of their students’ new app for droid. About a month ago, as students in the fourth grade Jewish Studies class were learning about blessings over food, a student raised his [...]
More good news on the creativity front… and another opportunity to strut your stuff!* In anticipation of its upcoming launch, Jew It Yourself is sponsoring a series of video competitions – and they want YOU to enter! Interested? Here’s the skinny from Dan Sieradski: Jew It Yourself is a new platform for learning and sharing [...]
It’s exciting to see the launch of the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund, a collaboration of Jim Joseph Foundation, Righteous Persons Foundation, and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Even more exciting will be to see the creativity, projects, partnerships, and energy that will emerge from this challenge! From their site: Our three funders are [...]
It’s that time of the year, where we celebrate our collective Jewish narrative under the stars. This year, a team of creative folks at the Sukkah in the City project solicited visions of the sukkah reimagined According to New York Magazine, the contest received 600 entries from 43 countries. Check out the entries online and [...]
Wishing you a G’mar Hatimah Tovah! Yom Kippur from G-dcast.com More Torah cartoons at www.g-dcast.com
Passionate about Jewish learning? Have Big Ideas about what 21st Century Jewish learning might look like? Share your vision … and you just might win an all expense trip to the upcoming Jewish Futures Conference – not to mention a world-wide audience! BJENY-SAJES and JESNA’s Lippman-Kanfer Institute invite you to submit a short video that [...]
By now, you may have already seen the ebullient flash mob video produced by Nefesh B’Nefesh: What is particularly compelling is a) how Nefesh B’Nefesh used the concept of a flash mob to communicate its work and underscore its message – “Make Aliyah in a ‘Flash‘: Join 23,000 Nefesh B’Nefesh Olim celebrating Hanukkah in Israel [...]
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