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Jewish History from a Unique Perspective

My children's Jewish history teacher, Rabbi Yonason Goldson has been teaching at Block Yeshiva High School for many years and presents Jewish history with a mix of traditional and scholarly sources, always from a Torah-true perspective and always looking at the broad sweep of history and the Jews' role in it. He has now published [...]
2010 02 19 Danny Comments (0)

New UI widgets: textpopup and hebrewKeyboard

Last modified 2009-04-02 The Hebrew pop-up keyboard on the YI site search box was always hard-coded and kind of obtrusive, so I wanted to make a jQuery plugin to add a keyboard to any input type="text" or textarea. To make it more flexible, I factored it into a general-purpose popup widget and the keyboard itself. [...]
2009 01 02 Danny jQuery Comments (0)

Google maps mapping tool

To make the eruv map, someone had to enter all the individual points of the eruv boundary. That someone was Mickey Ariel (thanks!). To make it possible, I wrote a simple web application that contains a Google map and placs a marker at every mouse click. Each marker has a number, and the list of [...]
2007 05 01 Danny Web Design Comments (0)

The Hebrew keyboard

For those who liked the YI Hebrew keyboard, I wrote a similar keyboard that I use to turn Hebrew into HTML entities (for the website), and, at my kids' request, uses Morfix dictionary and Google Israel to translate or search for Hebrew terms. Enjoy!
2007 05 01 Danny Web Design Comments (0)

What free time?

Well, I had every intention of documenting all the PHP and Javascript tricks I've learning to get the YI site running, but I'm leyning Acharei Mot-Kedoshim in 2 weeks, plus trying to keep up with shnayim mikra/echad targum plus Rashi and Emek Davar (i've given up on the Malbim,which I started but can't go through [...]
2007 04 17 Danny Web Design Comments (1)