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Technology & Communication

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Computers have become pervasive in our lives – our car engines are run by computers, computers control our thermostats and many of the apliances in our homes, and more and more of our communication occurs “online”.
At Tikvat Israel, we have progressively been expanding our online presence, and, in addition to our website and this blog, we now have a FaceBook page, and a Twitter account. As of this posting, our FaceBook group has 79 members, and our Twitter account has 11 followers. We have also recently implemented an email service through Constant Contact, which allows more of a “branded” look for our electronic announcements than the more generic emails generated by our listservs.

So, in total, our online presence includes our website, this blog, our new Constant Contact notification service, and our presence on FaceBook and Twitter. We even have a small podcast (really part of the blog).

I’d like to know what you think of these tools, whether you use them, and which tool serves you best to stay in touch with what’s going on at TI! Are we missing a modality that you think would be helpful?  Please vote in the poll below, and add your comments!

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Impressions…

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Israel’s celebration on the Mall- BORING.

Sorry , but leave it to our Federation to take such a joy filled simcha as Israel’s 60th and make it boring.

Sure there was Jews for Jesus attempting to draw people in.  Happy to report they looked quite lonely, and the mobile outdoor billboard promoting the Palestinian thoughts of Israels 60th. All that is expected, but I was expecting Israeli music coming from the mall site, loud and clear for all other to hear and enjoy. I was expecting joy filled dancing all around the site rather than cramped into one tent. I was expecting Mandy Patankin , a wonderful performer, to try and learn to sing a few Hebrew songs rather than yiddish- how Vus Vus can you get.?!  Israel is about many languages all eventually melting into our Hebrew mother tongue.

Maybe it would have been better to have invited the entire Jewish community to Tikvat Israel when we had our BBQ celebration last month that was weather threatened, yet had more spirit and joy than what I saw yesterday, although I am not surprised at all.  What a contrast to being in Israel last year for the 59th to see families BBQing everywhere, hear music in the streets and see people dancing everywhere.  I fully comprehend this is not Israel, but come on, try not to be typically boring.

Sorry.  I guess at age 64, I am looking for Jewish lively, spirited and fun and it was not there.

- Avrum Ashery (posted with permission by JK)

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