By Ted Cohen and Scott Kaufman On May 20th, 1948, over twenty thousand Jews spontaneously gathered on the field at Central High School in Detroit to celebrate the establishment of the State of Israel. The event was organized without formal invitations or advertising. There were no emails sent, no tweets or Facebook posts, no Whatsapp message chains. How did nearly a quarter of the city’s entire Jewish population learn about this historic … [Read more...] about Rewiring Jewish Community
Using Technology Wisely
Facebook News Feed Overhaul:
How Your Nonprofit Can Prepare
By John Haydon
Well, we all knew this day was coming.
Facebook has finally decided to pull the plug on almost all types of public content from pages. … [Read more...] about Facebook News Feed Overhaul:
How Your Nonprofit Can Prepare
Augmented Reality Menorah Transports Chanukah into a New Dimension
By Eric Berger Digital artist Nitzan Bartov will demonstrate this Chanukah that augmented reality goes far beyond Pokémon GO, the location-based augmented reality game downloaded 750 million times that took smartphone users by storm in the summer of 2016. She explains that she has created an app through which people can look at a menorah and enter a “Chanukah-related solar system.” The 31-year-old Israeli, who now lives in New York … [Read more...] about Augmented Reality Menorah Transports Chanukah into a New Dimension
Soup to Nuts: Building FindYourSummer.org
By Susan Holzman Wachsstock, Rebecca Ruberg and Melanie Schneider Sometimes you roll out a project, look back, and think about all the things you now know - and how you would do it differently if given the opportunity to try again. For us, designing FindYourSummer.org - a massive, searchable, filterable database for parents and teens in the Greater New York area to find Jewish summer experiences - has been one of those projects; one that we’d … [Read more...] about Soup to Nuts: Building FindYourSummer.org
Athena Fund Distributes iPads to over 600 Special Education Teachers in Southern Israel
Israel’s Athena Fund has provided more than 600 special education teachers in the cities of Be'er Sheva, Kiryat Gat, Dimona and the Bedouin Neve Midbar Regional Council with laptops during October as part of the "iPad for Every Special Education Teacher" program. In addition to iPads, the teachers will also receive 120 hours of techno-pedagogical training. The program is designed to empower special education teachers in Israel and enable them … [Read more...] about Athena Fund Distributes iPads to over 600 Special Education Teachers in Southern Israel
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