Can the Internet Change the Way We Interact With Judaism?
I’m going to be speaking as a panelist along with Steven I. Weiss, Jeff Sharlet, & Jeff Jarvis at the New Voices conference at The Bronfman Center at NYU on Tuesday, May 25, at 1pm. The subject, “Can the Internet Change the Way We Interact With Judaism?” Come check it out.
You may find Bill Cork’s essay on blogging The Passion of use: it’s at http://wquercus.com/cork.pdf
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Sorry – that should have been clearer – the link is to Bill’s blog. Again, here it is: http://tinylink.com/?pLu2hUyFRA .
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You know, Jewschool (and the blogosphere writ large) is an excellent example of how the Internet can change the way we interact with Judaism.
But especially if you’re speaking in front of campus-style folks, you might want to take it a step further. Something like:
1) interactive Internet applications like Weblogging create exactly the kind of communal dialogue that is at the core of the Jewish tradition;
2) this is what campus groups, particularly Hillel, need to reengage diverse Jewish studentships; and
3) Hillel should really be hiring you to retool how they engage students.
If you mean Judaism as pop-culture or as a social network, sure, why not?
If you mean Judaism as a religion, if Judaism has survived for a couple of thousand years it will survive blogging also.
if Judaism has survived for a couple of thousand years it will survive blogging also: I should think so. Blogging is helping it.
Judaism will also “survive” discussion, debate, telephone conversations, newspaper coverage, and all other manner of real-life engagement.
That you think these are attacks on Judaism is perverse. But to each his own, Brother.