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Entertainment Calendar – Issue of May 24, 2012
Rancho Bernardo High School presents its Broadway revue concert 7 p.m. Thursday, May 24 and Friday, May 25 in the Rancho Bernardo High School Performing Arts Center. The program will feature performances by the award-winning Madrigals and Advance Women’s Ensemble, as well as the Concert Choirs.
It's Not Just Porn: Why Ultra-Orthodox Jews Fear the Internet
At Citi Field Stadium this Sunday, 50,000 religious men gathered to discuss the dangers of the Web. An organizer explains why the digital era is so challenging for the people of the book.
Alex Pasternack: What the Sold-Out Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Internet Rally Was About
Not just a fear of pornography, but a concern about presentation and perception -- the creeping suspicion that information could not be controlled, that the Internet was importing, copying and pasting, all sorts of things that the community had spent so many decades trying to keep at bay.
New Bulgarian conversion course offering a pathway to ‘official’ Judaism
As a child, Gabrielle Pavlova pored over pictures of her Jewish paternal grandmother, who died decades before Pavlova was born. The family had no other tie to Judaism, and Pavlova was fascinated.
The Religious Extremists Who Want to Ban the Internet [Video]
# internet The average home attendance for the New York Mets this year has been 27,683. On Sunday, Citi Field drew 40,000—almost full capacity. Why? Not baseball, but religious radicals who think the internet is a dangerous, mortal evil. More »
All the Torah news fit to print
The first issue of Torah Tidbits - the weekly "parsha pamphlet" produced for the Anglo community by the Orthodox Union's Jerusalem center - appeared in 1992 in two Jerusalem synagogues. It was a single piece of paper with a dvar Torah on one side and announcements on the other.
‘Muslim, Jews and a New Song’: Interfaith event blends books, music and personal stories
After the horror of 9/11, a shaken Tricia Hellman Gibbs decided the time had come to delve into her Jewish roots, learn Hebrew and study Torah. But she didn’t stop there.
Five steps to studying and learning from the Torah
If we study the Torah the way a child plays with a toy -- repeatedly and open to the possibility of discovering something remarkable -- then perhaps we can discover something remarkable.
New Interactive Map Calculates Travel Times in Ancient Rome
A new online tool, made by a team of historians and information technology specialists at Stanford University, shows just how long and costly it was to send people and wheat between cities in the Roman Empire. "It's Google Maps for the ancient world, complete with the 'Avoid Highways' feature," Scott Weingart, a doctoral student in library sciences at the University of Indiana, wrote in a blog ...
Synagogues slowly expanding inclusion to those with emotional, mental disabilities
On a recent Sunday, Ayla Watson celebrated her bat mitzvah. Ayla, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other behavioral difficulties, ascended the bimah and recited the Torah reading for Rosh Chodesh, the new month.
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