Since 2007 The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) has explored online options to provide our audience with dynamic new ways to interact with valuable Jewish content. This online space serves as a laboratory for new ideas integrating technology, education, and social design.
Please take a moment to check out our major project, the Tagged Tanakh, as well as some of our previous interactive experiments.
A stable and credible digital Torah that enables users to create connections between the foundational Jewish text and the wealth of content found online.
Connect the wisdom of the sages with the wisdom of crowds.
The Tagged Tanakh is now online.
Previous Interactive Experiments
Checkout YAVNET’s first Visual MIDRASH Topic!
Dive into Deuteronomy 29-30 with Debra Linesch as she guides you through a path of study and creative response to one of the most powerful passages in the last book of Torah.
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Jews and COMIX (a general term used to describe comic books, graphic novels, newspaper strips, etc.) go together like lox and bagels, right?
Delve into the history and NACHAS (Yiddish word for “pride”) of Jewish involvement with everyone’s favorite sequential art form with a little help from Mad Magazine scribe Arie Kaplan. Get a sneak peek at Arie’s forthcoming JPS book, From Krakow To Krypton: A History of Jews In Comic Books and cast your vote for the Ultimate Jewish Comix Champion!
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2,000 years ago a diverse group of survivors gathered together in the Galilee to reimagine Judaism for their time. The fruits of their labor, named MISHNAH by the later tradition, sustained Jewish life in Israel and the Diaspora for a remarkable length of time. For some contemporary Jews, their words continue to provide guidance on all aspects of life.
Today, recognizing the dramatic changes of the past 100 years, we are regathering to build on the past and start again. As the rabbis of ancient times used the tools of their moment to write a new kind of text, we are using the tools of the digital age in ours.
Watch as four people discuss the shape of the digital Mishnah to come. Explore how the Mishnah relates to our lives today.
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Welcome to the second installment of YAVNET’s visual midrash group with Debra Linesch. Our first exercise in creatively engaging Torah focused on Nitzavim and Standing at Sinai. Now we turn our attention to another part of our bodies…as we encounter Torah and each other Panim El Panim; Face to Face.
