Two items seen in rapid succession today:

• Here's why you're not hiring the best and brightest: (Jeff Atwood) talks about making telecommuting work so that you really can hire the best employees, as opposed to the best employees willing to live in a particular location. I once applied for a telecommuting position at a company that seems to get it ( Read more... )

Tonight I attended the first session of Curious Tales of the Talmud, a six-week class. I hope to write more about the class itself later (good stuff), but for now, something else ( Read more... )

We were in Toronto for a few days, so Shabbat morning I went to services at the Village Shul, which is run by Aish HaTorah. We don't have Aish in Pittsburgh, so I was curious. I understand them to be in methodologykind of similar to Chabad -- friendly outreach to people at various levels ( Read more... )

Judging by the traffic on relevant mailing lists, lots of Reform congregations have the problem of families expecting to "own" the service at which their kid is bar or bat mitzvah. ("Own" means the kid does most of the service, family members get all or nearly all of the honors, the parents stand up and kvell about the kid for several minutes, and ( Read more... )

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I'm on a mailing list for discussing worship issues in the Reform ( Read more... )

New word: bloggerrea. I'd been wondering why sometimes an update causes the RSS feed to spew old entries. Pretty annoying.
Clever, in that "uh-oh" sort of way: one piece of spam-sending malware installs its own anti-virus programbecause it doesn't want all your other viruses slowing it down ( Read more... )

Hebrew College describes itself as "trans-denominational"; they are ( Read more... )

A friend posted (in a locked entry, so no link) an exchange he had with another member of his congregation about attracting people to synagogues. (They've been having a rough time of it.) At about the same time, my rabbi and I were discussing why people (don't) come to minyan, and cahwyguy published a digest of mail.liberal-judaism that ( Read more... )

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