Why did you initially join Twitter? I had heard buzz that there was a new thing online and I wanted to check it out. Initially my Twitter account was private, and I just watched how everyone else was using Twitter to interact. After a month or so I just jumped into the fray, 4 months 
A.B. Yehoshua is not a stupid man, despite recent evidence to the contrary. The famous Israeli author and Israel Prize laureate remarked at a lecture last week that “American Jews are only partial Jews while Israeli Jews are total Jews.” “They are partial Jews while I am a complete Jew,” Yehoshua said, referring to American 
Why did you initially join Twitter? I initially joined Twitter in October 2008 because my best friend, a techie, wouldn’t stop talking about it. How did you get involved with the Jewish community on Twitter? After spending the first few months barely using the account, I began to use it for political stuff (which became 
Aryeh Tepper reviews The Pale God: Israeli Secularism and Spinoza’s Philosophy of Culture for Jewish Ideas Daily. Katz argues (as Tepper paraphrases) that secular Israeli Jewry has come to embrace a notion of God “not as a stern judge smiting sinners from on high with his cosmic zap-gun, but as a grandfatherly figure . . 
I came across this video last week on Facebook, and was floored by the amazing quality of the video, how well it ties in to the song (“Paradise” by Coldplay – love it) and how well it actually tells a story. It doesn’t hurt that it was a large fancy wedding in NYC, and we 
We tend to think about Jewish communities (and communities, in general) in terms of location and self-definition. But the world of Web 2.0 allows us to go beyond these limitations in forming thriving communities. On Twitter, secular Jews come together with Orthodox and even ultra-Orthodox Jews to debate the hot Jewish issues of the day: