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Judaism

This Tweek in Religital

October 1, 2011

It’s been a long Hellatus (sorry, Supernatural fans), but I’ve been active on Twitter that whole time. Surprise I’ve decided that a good way to keep content on the blog might be to round-up the week’s tweets in a blog post (which then gets re-tweeted. Ha-HA!). Here goes: * Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology | Wired.com [...]

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Google Earth and religion

December 31, 2010

Google Earth was in the news regarding religion twice recently. The first story concerns the discovery via satellite photo that a prominent Star of David exists on Iran Air’s main building. My first thought was that it was just a geometric symbol, and also one that is prominent in Islam as its artistic tradition praised [...]

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Round-up Deux

November 29, 2010

*deep breath* Okay, here’s the rest: ‘Muslims Target TV/Internet Evangelist for Death‘, ChristianNewsWire (14/10/10) Reuters ‘Dead Sea scrolls going digital on Internet‘, FaithWorld (19/10/10) Reuters ‘Bible.com investor sues company for lack of profit‘, FaithWorld (20/10/10) Bob Allen ‘Sheriff’s office settles lawsuit with former church member outed for blog‘, Associated Baptist Press (21/10/10) Heidi Campbell ‘New [...]

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Links round-up

November 28, 2010

Trying to clear a bottleneck of stories I haven’t posted on. Mea maxima culpa. Heidi Campbell ‘Can an online community be a church ? IRS says “No”!‘, When Religion Meets New Media (24/8/10) Joshua M. Z. Stanton ‘Cyber Dialogue: The Future of Inter-Religious Engagement‘, Patheos (6/9/10) Eli Yishai ‘Shas minister shuts down online payments on [...]

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Yom Kippurrr and repairing the virtual world

September 19, 2010

In honour of the Pope’s highly successful tour of England (a.k.a the Roman Invasion) and in the spirit of complete bias in reporting, I’ve decided to play advocatus diaboli to Andrew’s advocatus Dei. It’s amazing what you find by being literal with Google: who would have thought that there was a Jewish iPhone Community website: [...]

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Offlining for Yom Kippur

September 18, 2010

Jewish ad execs Mark DiMassimo and Eric Yaverbaum have created a campaign for people to disconnect from social media for Yom Kippur. The pair have a co-opted an old series of posters for Levy’s Jewish Rye Bread to create a number of cautionary tales involving celebrities. via ‘Try the OffLining Pledge for Yom Kippur?‘, Read [...]

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World of Genesis… craft. Of War.

September 6, 2010

Rumours of a Bible MMO have been greatly exaggerated. The Bible Online: Chapter 1 – The Heroes looks to be less than its source material might promise. Players assume the role of Abraham and (somehow) his descendants; this last being perhaps the most interesting feature mentioned. I’m not sure how they could incorporate that into [...]

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One fish two fish, Jewfish Few Fish

December 15, 2009

There was an article in the Herald about typos on Google Maps, one of which rendered Oatley Park’s Jewfish Bay as “Few Fish Bay”. I imagine it was just misreading on the part of the data enterer, but it reminded me of a friend’s complaint that she was unable to search for “Jew” on Google, [...]

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Twittorah

December 5, 2009

Rabbi Ben Greenberg has collected a number of readings from the Torah – re-tweeted by a selection of Jewish users – into a book available from internet self-publisher Lulu. Not everyone is pleased with the marriage of religion and social media, however, and Corey Hodges warned against obscuring Christianity beneath layers of entertainment, in his [...]

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Loosen my religion

November 4, 2009

With apologies to Msrs Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe. The first story concerns the burgeoning scene of Muslim punk, which goes by the name of Taqwacore after the novel by Michael Muhammad Knight. I posted a story about this on my Facebook a few months ago (before I’d resumed blogging), but it’s doing the rounds [...]

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