Category Archives: Judaism

Yiddish wisdom for parents (2001)

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Gabor

The 80 pages of the handy little volume of “Yiddish wisdom for parents” was collected and translated by Rae Meltzer. Its page are beautifully designed and arranged, containing a little painting on almost every page (by Kristina Swarner) along with … Continue reading →

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Jewsome

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Gabor

Last week I started a new project. I decided start tracking how Jews and Jewish organizations are using social media. This gave me an opportunity to play with a new blog engine that is gaining some traction. Without further due … Continue reading →

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Books on African-American Jewish relations

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Gabor

I have been working on creating a blog for the shul library, but I did not finish setting it up yet. This posting was intended to go there, but for now I will just share it here. Tonight at services … Continue reading →

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Littlefield: Fire at the Triangle Factory (1996)

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Gabor

A few days ago I had a meeting with a Jewish religious school director. She proudly showed me the children book collection she maintained for her school. She explained the categories she color-coded the books and pulled out a dozen … Continue reading →

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Kabbalist Big-Bangism

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Gabor

I followed the tracks from an Associated Press article at Combined Jewish Philanthropies that starts with “A Jewish organization is demanding an apology from a Georgia lawmaker after a memo using his name claims that evolution was a myth propagated … Continue reading →

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Sim Shalom, global religion, fundraising

Posted on January 30, 2007 by Gabor

I wrote a paper two years ago for my Global Religion class at UCSB on Sim Shalom, the first Jewish Reform community in Hungary, where I was active until I moved to the US. That paper was intended to show … Continue reading →

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kPod: Selecting Kosher Products Faster

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Gabor

For one of my classes I had to write a proposal in which I ” describe how the affordances of the technology (broadly conceived) are inspired by at least one piece of work from each of the fields of Information … Continue reading →

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Investigating AskMoses.com based on the Value Sensitive Design methodology

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Gabor

For one of my classes I was asked to “working with the Value Sensitive Design methodology, please write 1-2 pages if you were reporting briefly on a small conceptual investigation. Here is what I submitted. AskMoses.com is an “online resource … Continue reading →

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Teaching Kashrut to Potential Converts to Judaism

Posted on January 15, 2007 by Gabor

For a class I had to “Describe an exercise that could be used as an “Attention activity” in a classroom situation. Describe the topic and target audience in the subject line for example “Teaching Boolean Logic for elementary students”; and … Continue reading →

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A very Jewish evening

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Gabor

The local Chabad rabbi had a Cafe Kosher going on for a while every Thursday night. I have been wanting to go, but it felt uncomfortable. I probably have some prejudices, or at least preconceived ideas about Chabad in general, … Continue reading →

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