We’re in the News!

OurJewishCommunity.org is making news (in newspapers, magazines, blogs – and on the radio)!

December 21, 2011: Rabbi Baum is featured on Clal’s website for “Reaching Hundreds of Thousands of Jews Online with a Contemporary Voice”

December 5, 2011: OurJewishCommunity.org and Rabbi Baum mentioned in this MyJewishLearning.com blog about “Liberal Judaism Experiencing a Renaissance”

November 9, 2011: OurJewishCommunity.org’s Slingshot recognition is featured in the American Israelite

October 20, 2011: “Influential Rabbi Visits KC as Faiths Festival Panelist” about Rabbi Baum in the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle (online version not currently available)

October 20, 2011: News about OurJewishCommunity.org being featured as an innovative Jewish organization is picked up by PR Inside and SB Wire.

October 19, 2011: Rabbi Baum quoted in “Why Rabbis are Still Important” on eJewishPhilanthropy.com and on Jewschool

October 18, 2011: OurJewishCommunity.org’s Slingshot nomination is discussed in Jewish Week article on “Making Room for Established Startups”

October 18, 2011: JTA article: “Slingshot Names Top 50 Jewish Innovators” includes OurJewishCommunity.org

September 29, 2011: Rabbi Baum quoted in an article in the Sacramento Bee on costs of attending synagogues

September 28, 2011: Rabbi Barr and Rabbi Baum provide “Sex Advice from Rabbis” on Nerve.com

September 27, 2011: Rabbis Barr and Baum discuss our online High Holidays for USC Annenberg Radio News

September 19, 2011: Huffington Post piece by Rabbi Jason Miller on Social Media and Religion includes quotes from Rabbi Baum, “social media maven”

September 6, 2011: Rabbi Baum and OurJewishCommunity.org mentioned in Good Morning Silicon Valley

September 6, 2011: Rabbi Baum is quoted in a blog in the Jewish Week about Religion and Social Media

September 5, 2011: OurJewishCommunity.org, Congregation Beth Adam, and Rabbi Laura Baum are featured in this New York Times story: Facebook Page for Jesus, With Highly Active Fans

June 27, 2011: Our Elijah Tracker is discussed in the blog post God and Twitter 2: Spiritual Innovation in HUC’s Continuing Education Blog

June 21, 2011: We’re featured in a blog post on God and Twitter: Helping Clergy Do What they Do which appeared in Hebrew Union College’s Continuing Education Blog

June 20, 2011: OurJewishCommunity.org is featured in the Jerusalem Report in an article on Judaism On Demand

May 30, 2011: Rabbi Baum is a client MVP in News, Noise, and Know-How from JZMcBride & Associates

May 11, 2011: Rabbi Barr is quoted in the JTA Article, “Jewish Atheists Look for their Place in Jewish Life”

April 18, 2011: Online Seder featured in USA Today in “At Passover and all Year, Creative Jews Update Traditions”

April 18, 2011: Elijah Tracker featured at JWeekly.com: “Forget Santa Tracker, Now We Have Elijah Tracker”

April 18, 2011: On 11 Alive, “Passover, Judaism Get 21st Century Twist”

February 26, 2011: Our Jewish Community’s WOMMY award is featured in the Cincinnati Enquirer.

January 26, 2011: Rabbi Baum is quoted in a blog post titled “Even the Pope Speaks About Social Networks.”

December 5, 2011: Rabbi Baum was interviewed by Kate Turkington on “Believe it or Not” on 702 Talk Radio in South Africa

October 11, 2010: HUCinci has a blog about Rabbi Laura Baum as one of the Fifty Most Influential Female Rabbis in America

October 4, 2010: Rabbi Baum’s blog “My Faith: Why I Lead an Online Synagogue” is on CNN’s website

October 1, 2010: Rabbi Laura Baum is interviewed on ABC Radio news about “virtual religious communities” and she discusses the successes of OurJewishCommunity.org, the world’s first online synagogue with a contemporary Jewish voice

September 17, 2010: Live, Online High Holiday Services Streaming to a Living Room Near You in the Chicago Daily Herald

September 17, 2010: A New Way to go to Temple… Online in Jewish Cooking Boot Camp Blog

September 16, 2010: A Varied Approach to Yom Kippur is Gaining Grown in the Houston Chronicle

September 12, 2010: Jewish Services on the Internet During the High Holidays on Suite101.com

September 8, 2010: Rosh Hashanah service streamed live to mobile devices on WCPO news.

September 8, 2010: Virtual Synagogue Suits Some at Rosh Hashanah in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and also in TMC

September 8, 2010: High Holiday services: In the Palm of Your Hand in the Toronto Star

September 8, 2010: Have You Attended Religious Services on Your Phone? on the Likeable Media blog

September 8, 2010: Celebrate the 2010 Jewish Holidays Online on Xomba

September 8, 2010: Our streaming services are discussed in the postmodernbible blog

September 7, 2010: Rosh Hashanah Online, Yom Kippur services go Mobile in the Jerusalem Post

September 7, 2010: A lotta gelt! Jews skipping High Holiday Services over Steep Ticket Fees in the New York Daily News

September 7, 2010: Virtual Mincha: A Taste of the Future on About.com

September 2, 2010: Recession, Outreach Goals Prompt Jews to Tackle High Costs of High Holidays on BeliefNet

September 2, 2010: “Shul online” article about our streaming High Holiday services – in French!

September 1, 2010: Congregation Beth Adam and OurJewishCommunity.org are featured in Huffington Post’s article – High Holidays: Synagogues Reconsider High Prices

August 30, 2010: Rabbi Baum featured in the News, Noise and Know-How Newsletter from JZ McBride & Associates

August 26, 2010: We’re featured in the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Weekly Digest

August 23, 2010: Online-Only Shul? article on Virtual Jerusalem

August 20, 2010: Our online synagogue is featured in JTA: New sites make shul an online-only experience – article also appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, Jerusalem Post, Cleveland Jewish News, JWeekly.com, and several other newspapers

August 19, 2010: An article in David’s Voice: Cincinnati Rabbi Laura Baum Named to 50 Most Influential Female Rabbis List for Groundbreaking Use of Social Media

August 5, 2010: An article on the front page of the American Israelite features Rabbi Baum and our online synagogue: “Local Rabbi Named On 50 Most Influential Female Rabbis List”

August 1, 2010: Rabbi Baum and our online synagogue are featured in a story in the Cincinnati Enquirer called Ancient Religion Goes Hi-Tech

July 27, 2010: Rabbi Laura Baum was on Fox 19 News in Cincinnati for being one of the Most Influential Female Rabbis.  The story was also on Real Talk 1160 Tri-State News and in the Loveland-Symmes Township News.

July 21, 2010: Congratulations to Rabbi Laura Baum for being named one of the 50 Most Influential Female Rabbis by the Forward.

June 23, 2010: Ben Hammer’s streaming online Bar Mitzvah (hosted by OurJewishCommunity.org) was featured in The Jewish Week’s article, “Virtually There.”

May 18, 2010: The Punk Torah blog has a piece on humanistic Judaism and features our bricks-and-mortar and online synagogues.

March 29, 2010: The Around the Cyber World blog has a post on on the Cyber Seder and discusses ours.

March 29, 2010: Yahoo! News has an article on Twitter Passover seders and discusses ours.  (Same article is in Top Tech News)

March 29, 2010: Blog from Battery Park (Museum of Jewish Heritage in NY) discusses our online Passover seder.

March 27, 2010 : Online Passover seder is the topic of an article in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

March 25, 2010: Jweekly.com also features our online Passover events.

March 25, 2010: Our online Passover seder is featured in the Jewish Exponent’s article on Who Wants Seconds?

March 24, 2010: The New York Jewish Week features our online Passover seder and Twitter Passover seder in Let My People…Tweet

March 21, 2010: Our online Passover seder is featured in the Orlando Sentinel.

March 19, 2010: The Jewish Journal Boston-North has an article about our online Passover seder.

March 17, 2010: Rabbi Baum was interviewed by Dave Kerpen of Buzz Marketing Daily about how religious groups use social media.

March 10, 2010: Rabbi Baum is quoted in Tablet Magazine’s piece on “What You Said About Intermarriage.”

March 8, 2010: Rabbi Barr and Rabbi Baum have a letter to the editor in the Cincinnati Enquirer about the Digital World Transforming Congregations.

February 17, 2010: Rabbi Barr is quoted in the Hungry Hyaena’s Blog about Evolution Weekend.

February 16, 2010: Rabbi Baum’s article “Jewish Learning in the 21st Century” is featured in “Technology and Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making” (an initiative of JESNA)

February 2, 2010: OurJewishCommunity.org is featured in the 28days28ideas blog as idea #2.

January 11, 2010: We’re featured in an blog post entitled Virtually Jewish.

December 7, 2009: Our online synagogue is featured in a blog in the Lafayette, LA newspaper: The Daily Advertiser.

December 5, 2009: Rabbi Baum discusses the myth of Hanukkah in a piece called “Naughty and Nice” on the Public Radio Show BackStory with the American History Guys

November 30, 2009: Our online synagogue is highlighted in Jewish Woman magazine.

October 11, 2009: We’re featured in a blog called Peace Seeker in a Chaotic World.

September 30, 2009: We’re praised in a letter to the editor in the Jerusalem Post.

September 26, 2009: Rabbi Barr discusses our Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur webcasts on Air America radio (it starts a couple of minutes into the podcast)

September 19, 2009: Rabbi Barr is quoted in an article in the Indianapolis Star, “Rosh Hashanah Observances Adapt to 21st Century”

September 18, 2009: Our High Holiday webcasts were featured in the Decatur Daily.

September 18, 2009: The Columbus Dispatch features our online synagogue and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur service broadcasts.

September 18, 2009: High Holiday webcasts featured in the New Haven Register.

September 17, 2009: Rabbi Laura Baum is interviewed about our virtual synagogue in a podcast in the Columbus Dispatch.

September 17, 2009: We’re in the Jewish Herald Voice.

September 17, 2009: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review discusses our webcasts of High Holiday services.

September 16, 2009: Our Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur webcasts are in the Baltimore Sun.

September 16, 2009: The Miami Herald discussed our web broadcasts of the High Holidays.

September 15, 2009: The New York Jewish Week highlighted our streaming High Holiday services.

September 15, 2009: The New York Blueprint featured our online synagogue and Rabbi Baum’s Nomination as a Jewish Community Hero.

September 10, 2009: The Jerusalem Post featured our streaming Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services.

September 10, 2009: Video Streaming High Holidays featured in the Cincinnati Enquirer.

September 10, 2009: Rabbi Baum was quoted in an AP article “Israel: Anti-Assimilation Ads Yanked Over Uproar” that was included in several newspapers including the New York Times and LA Times.

August 28, 2009: A brief piece in the New Jersey Jewish Standard.

August 7: 2009 Migdalor Guy’s New Blog featured OurJewishCommunity.org.

August 5, 2009: Tablet Magazine covered our upcoming online High Holiday services.

July 26, 2009: “The Little Things” covered OurJewishCommunity.org in a blog on “The summer of synagogue-searching”

July 10, 2009: Our online synagogue is featured in a blog of the Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI).

July 3, 2009: Rabbi Baum is mentioned (with Mel Brooks) in a blog listing “Deconstructionist Jews”.

June 26, 2009: The Jewish Advocate (Boston) featured a front page article on our online synagogue.

May 26, 2009: The online congregation is featured in Te Waha Nui - publised by Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand.

April 8, 2009: OurJewishCommunity.org’s Passover offerings featured in Direct Magazine Online

Dec. 29: Rabbi Baum’s Hanukkah Video Podcasts were highlighted in the Bintel Blog.

December 19, 2008: OurJewishCommunity.org was featured twice in the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) Weekly News Digest.

December 12, 2008 : An article about us called “High-Tech Hanukkah” in The Forward.

December 9, 2008: Fabulous article on Soapboxmedia.com

December 3, 2008: Check out the article in David’s Voice.

September 25, 2008: An article about OurJewishCommunity.org and High Holiday services… it’s from the Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh.

September, 2008: We were featured in the September issue of PresenTense Magazine in an article on new religious initiatives.  To read the whole article from the print magazine version, click here (we’re program #3 on the 2nd page).  To read the extended article on their web magazine, click here.