eLearing - Jewish Style

As a Tech Specialist for CIJE (www.thecije.org), every second Wednesday I have the pleasure and honor to facilitate a live video eLearning classroom for Rabbi Boruch Suffrin, Head of School for the Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy, here in Los Angeles.  Rabbi Sufrin gives an AMAZING Shiur (A class based on classical Jewish religious texts) at the Beth Jacob Synagogue.  His class is always packed AND it is live-streamed throughout the world! (Click here for the date/time of Rabbi Sufrin's next Shiur)

This is a view of the Shiur from the remote eLearning manager (where I field on-line 

questions from the web) and a view from an iPad

This is the Asus Tablet PC with an external HD camera (under $450.00!!) - Rabbi 

Sufrin Controls his whole Shiur from here.

A screen shot of this week's Shiur. (Click this link for a list of Rabbi Sufrin's Shiurim)

Rabbi Sufrin prepares source documents that are handed out to the attending participants and are interactively displayed on the screen for the "at home" participants to review (they are available to download as well).  In the past, these source sheets have taken Rabbi Sufrin many long hours of work to prepare, pulling the references from classical Jewish texts, some of which are thousands of years old.  This week though, the source sheets were prepared using a website called Sefaria. (www.sefaria.org)

Sefaria is an ever growing source of information on Classical - and modern - Jewish texts.  By using a "Wiki-like" approach, they have gathered over 22,697 source sheets with 53 million words and almost 8 million of those words have been translated into multiple languages.

Founded in 2013, Sefaria is an unbelievable resource for the Jewish educator and presenter.  If you have the time and inclination, I would suggest that you get involved with this organization. Their platform works on tablets/computer/smart phones, etc.  If you don't have the technical expertise to loan, then make a donation to keep the project going.

What is Sefaria: Here is a short video

As we say good-bye to 2015 and prepare to welcome 2016, let's remember that not only do our students need to be life-long learners, but so do we.  As one of my favorite Sci-Fi spoof movies says: "Never give up! Never Surrender!!"

Have a great new year!!!

Warmest regards...

Yossie Frankel

Yossie Frankel

IT Director - Shalhevet High School

Tech Specialist - CIJE

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