Meet the Advisory Council!
The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund is pleased to introduce its six-member Advisory Council, consisting of experts in the fields of digital media, Jewish life, and youth engagement. These advisors...
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PocketTorah: Coming Soon to Pockets Near You!
This is the first in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. PocketTorah creators, Charlie Schwartz (left) and Russel Neiss, are...
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Idelsohn Society Digital Archive: From Vinyl to Viral
This is the second in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. Idelsohn Society Digital Archive crew! From left to right: Josh Kun,...
View ArticleRound-up of Reading on the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund
The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund has been making its rounds in the media and blogosphere since we announced the 2011-2012 award recipients. Herewith, a sampling of the articles. We will continue to...
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Jewish Campus Life: There’s an App for That!
This is the third in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. “There is only one thing that 85% of Jews in this country do. There’s...
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Kveller.com: Parenting with a Jewish Twist
This is the fourth in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. Lev, son of My Jewish Learning CEO Daniel Septimus! My first child,...
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The G-d Project: We’re Coming To Your Town!
This is the fifth in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. Why is G-d such a difficult word for so many people? Why do we think...
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Moishe House Rocks: Jewish Holidays, Karaoke-style!
This is the sixth in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. David (right) lights Havdalah candles with the residents of Moishe...
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Haggadot.com: Putting the Personal and Pluralistic in Passover
This is the seventh in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. Screenshot of Haggadot.com For me, and for many of my peers, Jewish...
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UrbanSefer: Remixing the Haggadah
This is the eighth in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. Morgan Friedman, founder of UrbanSefer, is using crowd-sourcing to...
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Jewish Journey Connector: You Are Here
This is the last in a nine-part series describing the projects of the 2011-2012 Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Award Recipients. Jen Schwartz just graduated from the University of Michigan. For the...
View ArticleThe Jewish New Media Innovation Fund: One Year Later
This article is cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy and is co-authored by Adam Simon of the Schusterman Foundation, Rachel Levin of the Righteous Persons Foundation and Josh Miller of the Jim Joseph...
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Kveller.com: The Toddler Years
Kveller.com launched in September 2010 to provide parents raising Jewish children with Jewish parenting resources, a lively online community and a way to learn about local events and activities for...
View ArticleThe G-d Project: Stop Asking Questions and Start Listening For Answers
[This is the second in a new series updating the award recipient projects of the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund] On April 20th, 2011, the creative team at PunkTorah sought to answer the question,...
View ArticleMoishe House Rocks: Looking Back and Moving Forward
[This is the third in a series updating the award recipient projects of the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund.] When Moishe House and G-DCAST first started brainstorming about a possible collaboration...
View ArticleTorah-on-the-Go!
[This post is part of a series updating the award recipient projects of the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund.] Last year, with the generous support of the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund, we began...
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Hillel Connect: The Modern Guide to Jewish Life on Campus
[This post is part of a series updating the award recipient projects of the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund.] Hillel has served Jewish college students for almost 90 years. Our success is the result...
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Grapevine: Moving from Program-Centric to Customer-Centric
A year ago, GrapeVine was a dream that some Jewish leaders saw as a panacea and others argued would never get airborne. The idea was to provide a platform enabling a fundamental shift in the Jewish...
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Tikva Records and the American Jet Set
[This post is part of a series updating the award recipient projects of the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund.] Since we received the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund grant last year, we at Idelsohn...
View ArticleUpdate on the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund
In creating the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund, we set out to find new tools and platforms that would strengthen innovation within the Jewish community and thereby enhance jewish life, learning,...
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