By Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror
The Eight Net Gen Norms-
The best description that I know of and will use of who the Net Generation actually are, is done in the book “Grown Up Digital” by Don Tapscott (Mc Graw Hill, New York, 2009) Chapter Three, pages 73-96.
He describes the eight characteristics of this generation [...]
By Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror
Social networking (Net 2.0) will not supersede what we call “Organized Religion” but it certainly re-organizes it and re-defines it.
One of the major societal phenomena that are developing in our world of cyberspace is the creation and development of the VIRTUAL COMMUNITY.
To get some idea how significant this is in our [...]
By Rabbi, Dr. Moshe Dror
When we think of the Synagogue, we often think of its Hebrew term- Bet Knesset. The word Synagogue is from the ancient Greek: meaning The House of Assembly, a translation of the Hebrew: Bet- house; Knesset- assembly.
In other words we conjure up an image of some sort of building. In [...]
By Rabbi, Dr. Moshe Dror
We are talking about the Jewish Community. We experience the community when we can be together and share all kinds of interests. We tend to think of community when we can gather people together in one building or one room in order to do some specific task at some specific [...]
We continue with the Cyber-Or epic by Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror futurist, lecturer and teacher.
Just a few decades ago the question was:
“Will there be a Jewish continuity? Will my grandchildren be Jewish…?”
The response seems to be a very definite YES.
Jewish culture is booming. The younger Jewish American community has a wide [...]
By Moshe Dror
I would like to suggest that the Generation Y and the Net Generation are much the same people.
The N-gen is written about by many. The one that I like best are the writings of Don Tapscott (Growing Up Digital, Wikinomics, Grown Up Digital).
The Y-Generation is perhaps the most researched Jewish generation cohort.
If you [...]