I heard about that on NPR. You were in that? That's kinda cool. One of the points the NPR story made was that mobile computing has made it much easier to carry the Talmud around so that you have it for your reading group, but mobile wasn't so prevalent back when that started so I don't know how valid that is as a surmise.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Michael Dinowitz < [email protected]> wrote: > > I was thinking on how to write an article about an event I went to last > week. I thought: > "What do you call 95,000 Jews in a single football stadium? A good end and > a good start" > Unfortunately, the chances of it getting badly interpreted just stopped me > from using it. But I thought I'd share. > > The event was a celebration upon the completion of a 7.5 year learning > program where people learn a page of the Talmud a day. This was the 12th > cycle since the program was started and while there were a number of > celebrations around the world, the major one in the NY area was in the Met > Life stadium over in NJ. 93,000 tickets sold with about another 2,000 > invitees. It was sweet. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353496 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
