On Technology

Chassidic teachings encourage us to learn from everything we encounter in life.

The ability to send invisible, silent signals through the air, to pass them through a mechanical device and transform them into soundl—now that’s what I call a miracle!

Social media enables each of us to become an online publisher, influencing what others read, think about and discuss.

Recognition hunger, like many worldly desires and addictions, can never be satisfied.

Who are we when the lights are dim and we feel alone?

Some examples of virtual kindness that everyone can implement, which will leave a positive impact on the people in your networks.

In our fast-paced digital world, is it possible to take the time to review and gather all the necessary information before judging a situation?

Yes, it looks just like any other car on the surface – but do you have any idea of what it's truly capable of achieving? There are incredible powers lurking beneath the hood.

The tragic, the horrible, seemingly the worst that can ever happen happened. The internet stopped.

“Not often useful.” My Pavlovian response to that elegant formulation is euphoria. I think I will adopt it as my own. Things happen, and now I will be prepared . . .

I've just signed on to Facebook. Immediately, I clicked on the "my friends" tab and sure enough the computer informed that that "You have no friends." I was devastated

In the old days, we were always asking the opposite question: the biology assignment was to prove that a car is not a living organism. But modern life has turned the question around...

How to get your husband to follow instructions and even ask (!) for directions - in four easy steps

What the GPS taught me

It's the paradox of modern life: we're connected all the time, so were never connected to this moment in time...

Leave a message in my inbox, send me a virtual holiday card, graffiti my wall. Flip through my photo albums for your entertainment and, should you still feel bored, my journal is available for midday reading. We seem to wear our persona on our screens, leaving almost nothing to the imagination...

Celebrities have this problem all the time. They can never do anything 'off the record.'

Are you investing your life savings based on wikinformation? Are you treating a fatal condition based on a health blog you found? Are you calling a once-in-a-lifetime business contact on a VOIP line?

Infiniti. Millennia. Focus. Quest. Venture. Are these sacred teachings of Jewish mysticism evoking spiritual ideation and feeling? Or the names given by automobile manufacturers for their cars?

Before the 20th Century, "social networking" meant that either people visited you, or you visited them. Back then, "blackberries" were eaten, only birds "twittered" and your "facebook" was an album of monochrome lithographs...

I think I am going to buy a houseplant and name it Ned. I realized I needed a houseplant after my internet stopped working a few hours ago, and there was nobody around to talk to. Mostly I will talk to Ned about the word "in."

Do I detect a hint of snobbery in the polite lady's automated voice as she patiently informs me that she is "recalculating" (yes, I'm not even good at following spoon-fed instructions)? Perhaps she's really thinking to herself, "You poor idiot..."

Many understand repentance, Teshuvah, as a radical change in one's behavior or an importation of something foreign--to "Copy and Paste."

When we get to the climax of the prayer service, the top rung of the ladder, the Amida, what do we hear? Nothing. Just lips moving. But why? Why, after all the hub-bub, when we get to the heart of our personal conversation with G-d, do we finally go silent?

It’s a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago, but never directly observed until now . . .