Several weeks ago ArtScroll announced that they are going to digitize majority of their books.
Only prayer books for Shabbat and High Holidays will not get digital copy. The reason was said by Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, president of the Orthodox-run publishing house:
“The vision of people coming to shul on Shabbat with their e-siddur just doesn’t cut it. There are other reasons, too — notably a lag in technology. Amazon’s Kindle is not yet equipped to present Hebrew and English texts on facing pages, which the prayerbooks require, and the iPad’s capability to do so is “quite limited”

I had plenty of time to think over this and I have something to say now.
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Looking through KosherDev.com site analytics, I found an interesting visitor (Yeah, dude BigBrother is watching you )

Welcome, PunkTorah.org. I found a lot of similar in your concept with my own philosophy.
I will look through your site more thoroughly, because I do have to say something on topics, you are raising there.
But what I want to speak now is the project OneShul.org and especially about Online Minyan.
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Last week I received a letter from Tim Dalton. Tim informed me, that KosherDev.com was included in the list of “50 Best Blogs for Kosher Living“.

I thought for several days how to announce this event in KosherDev blog. Truly speaking, I am not ecumenical at all. But I see that this site is used not only by Jewish orthodox software developers and users, so I did consider announce such an interesting case. The only thing which stopped me from do it just at one is a little controversial neighborhood

Tim, thank you for respect and honor, you paid to KosherDev. I really appreciate this.

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Yesterday Haaretz published an article “Haredi programmers make a fraction of nonreligious peers’ salaries“.
I would like to understand and discuss the aspects, raised in the article.

Let’s imagine about possibilities why haredi are payed less:

• Employers consider haredim like cheap working power, due to the reason, that there are not so many possibilities inside of haredi community to earn much.
• Haredim have no much self-esteem to ask for better payment.
• Haredim don’t go to the companies with higher payment.
• Salary depends on the university degree, which haredi don’t have in most of cases.

I don’t want to speak here, why haredim are limited in choice of working possibilities. I do want to understand if there is discrimination on the base of religion or not.

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