Torah in a Connected World: Communication Technology and Social Media - Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

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welcome to Sparks of History where Jewish history and world history meet we are very honored and pleased to have with us today Rabbi Jonathan zering Rabbi zering received rinic ordination SM from the rabbi Isaac elhanan Theological Seminary at y University and received an MA in Jewish Philosophy from the Bernard Revel graduate school and a ba from the honors program at ISA College of Isa University Rabbi zeri studied at ISA studied at ISA Hardon and continued his learning there as a member of the K Gava RAB zering was also a fellow at the tikah fund and at the center for modern Torah leadership's summer bit midrash Rabbi zering has previously served as scan Ros of the University Torah MIT B mid zon dove in Toronto and as the rinic assistant of the b in Toronto Ontario currently Rabbi the b in Toronto Ontario currently Rabbi ziring serves as rosesa of Yesa MD Torah located in Modi in Israel and today we'll be discussing Rabbi Zing's recently published absolutely fascinating safer book Torah in a connected World a alic perspective on communication technology and social media thank you Rabbi zering for being with us we appreciate it very much thank you for having me I'm I'm excited for this conversation okay this conversation okay um the book if if you could just in general tell us the thesis behind the book and what methodology do you employ in evaluating the alic legal ramifications of new communication Technologies and platforms um so the the I mean the thesis of the book really and this is part of a broader project um that I'm committed to is you know as the the RV right salvic writes in several places that if he had

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