This week from Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on March 4, 2013

With an eye on Twitter, StandWithUs releases app for pre-fab pro-Israel messages

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on May 1, 2012

To celebrate the 64th anniversary of Israel’s founding, StandWithUs released a new social media application that the pro-Israel educational nonprofit hopes will help expand its impact on Twitter and Facebook.

Coming to a seder near you: A haggadah on your iPad

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 4, 2012

This Passover, Jews can still reliably be called “the people of the book.” If sales of newly published versions of the haggadah are any indication, on the first night of Passover, when it comes time to tell the story of the Exodus, most people sitting at seder tables will be holding in their hands a text that consists of printed words and images on paper.

iPad app for Reform prayer book is launched

Published on March 20, 2012

The iPad app for the Mishkan T'filah, the Reform movement's daily prayer book, was launched.

The Jewish Journal announces iPhone/Android apps

By JewishJournal
Published on January 26, 2012

The world of Jewish news is now available for both the iPhone and Android.

Lawsuits dropped after Apple drops ‘Jew or Not Jew’ app

Published on November 25, 2011

French anti-racism groups dropped lawsuits against Apple, Inc. after it removed an iPhone app called "Jew or Not Jew?" from online stores around the world.

New app teaches about Zionism

Published on October 5, 2011

A new mobile app provides a database of information about Zionism and Israel.

The Jewish World: there’s an app for that

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on October 3, 2011

Tribe Media Corp., parent company of The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, has launched the first Jewish news app designed specifically for the iPad.

Apple removes free ‘Thirdintifada’ from App Store

Published on June 23, 2011

Apple Inc. removed the Arabic-language "Thirdintifada" application from its App Store following a request from the Israeli government.

Israel asks Apple Inc. to remove ‘third intifada’ app

Published on June 22, 2011

Israel's government has asked Apple Inc. to remove an application called "ThirdIntifada," which encourages uprising against Israel, from its App Store. Israel's Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein, made the request Tuesday in a letter sent to Apple founder and chief executive officer Steve Jobs.

iPhone app brings Western Wall closer

Published on December 30, 2010

Using a new iPhone application, the Western Wall is only a touch away.

iPhone app explores, reveals Israeli settlements

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 20, 2010

Want to know exactly where in the West Bank the city-sized settlement of oft-discussed Ariel is located? How about when it was established, or how many Israelis live there? There’s an app for that.