Partnerships
The Delicious Connection Between Judaism and Technology
Becca Stern | 07/07/2010
Hello! My name is Becca Stern and I’m the newest addition to the JPS Interactive team. As the JPSI Summer Intern, I’ll be writing and contributing to the JPS Interactive blog and the Tagged Tanakh all summer, and I could not be more excited!
A little about myself: I’m a rising junior at the University of Pittsburgh where I’m studying English Literature and Children’s Literature. I’m a native of Philadelphia (go Phils!) and I love to eat and travel—especially at the same time.
One of my first assignments at JPS was to sort through JPS Interactive’s bookmarks. Using a web tool called Delicious, JPS staff have tagged and gathered interesting tidbits of information found online that relate to Judaism and technology. After hours of exploring three years’ worth of links (which I guess are kind of like digital bread crumbs), I started to conceptualize the path JPS Interactive and the Tagged Tanakh are forging.
« Read more »Judaism, Free Culture, and the Open Siddur Project
JT | 08/24/2009
“As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What’s at stake is our freedom—freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine.”
So says cultural environmentalist and thought leader, Lawrence Lessig in his book entitled Free Culture. Lessig is an integral part to the copyleft and creative commons movements–legal and social agendas bent on reviewing and renovating the copyright laws that companies like Disney have lobbied long and hard to put in place.
Free culture is succinctly described as one where all members are free to participate in its transmission and evolution, without artificial limits on who can participate or in what way. The free culture movement seeks to develop this culture by promoting four things:
« Read more »Darim Online + JPSinteractive = Happy Fun Fun Jewish Educational Technology Time!
JT | 04/20/2009
If the adage is true and you can measure a person by their friends, then JPS Interactive is a head above the rest due to friends like Lisa Colton and Darim Online. During the 1990s Lisa founded Darim Online and created a large chunk of the synagogue and Jewish non-profit websites in North America. Since then, Lisa and co. have created the premier boutique consulting firm for the professional Jewish world. What Dr. Ruth did for sex education, Lisa is doing for technology and education. She makes it all seem less threatening and in clear and jargon-free presentations Lisa unpacks the mysteries of RSS, how a Facebook Page differs from a Facebook Group, and demonstrates how the tools of social media are changing everything.
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