[ha-Safran] Updated: 42 Free and Useful Android Applications including Track Virus and IZEE TV

[Jacob Richman via Hasafran]

Hi Everyone!

I updated my list of free and useful Android applications.
The list has 42 free and useful applications that I recommend. 
Several of the programs are supported by ads and some have 
ad-free paid versions. 
After each application description is a link to its download page. 
Note to Apple users: Many of these applications are also 
available for Apple iOS devices.
I am not connected or know any of the developers / owners.
There are no affiliate links or advertising on my page.

https://jr.co.il/training/free-android-applications.htm

The 6 new additions are:

1. Track Virus - Israelis developed this new app, in partnership with United 
Hatzalah of Israel, that lets the user know if she or he has been exposed to 
someone diagnosed with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
The information is kept anonymously on each smartphone and 
is not uploaded to the cloud. Downloading does not require any form 
of identification or information gathering.

The app works by crosschecking a person's path with the paths of 
confirmed patients of the coronavirus as listed by the Health Ministry. 
Should a person have been in a location where a confirmed ill person 
was they will receive a notification on their app. It is important to note that 
the application only works from the time it is downloaded and not 
retroactively.

2. Zap Price Comparison - presenting more than a million products from 1,300 
e-commerce stores. Compare prices for each product, read users reviews on 
products and stores, get detailed products specs.

3. Weather Forecast - forecasts weather daily & hourly

4. IZEE TV - allows watching Israeli national free to air channels for free. 
No subscription required.

5. Silent Mode - Turn your phone on silent mode for a period of time. 
Useful when going to a movie, attending a meeting or when sleeping. 
Simply set the phone to automatically come out of the silent mode afterwards.

6. Tfilon - is a free siddur.
Shows Hebrew with perfect Nikud 
Shows Halachic Zmanim for 120 cities around the world. 
Switch dates on sunset 
All additions show when needed 
Random Dvar Torah before Birkat HaMazon 
Nusachs available: Ashkenaz, Sfard and Edot Hamizrach

Tfilot available in Tfilon: Shacharit - including Musaf when needed, 
Mincha, Arvit, Kriat Shma on the bed, Birkat Hamazon, Mein Shalosh, 
Sheva Brachot, Seder Brit Mila, Bore Nefashot, Asher Yatzar, 
Tfilat HaDerech, Kidush/Birkat Levana.

The list of 42 apps also includes:

- PriceZ 
Israeli food price comparison

- WhatsApp Messenger

- Moovit 
Public transit app and mapping service 

- Google Maps

- QR & Barcode Scanner

- Waze GPS Maps and Traffic
The world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. 

- My MDA  
App that significantly streamlines the process of locating 
and reaching Israelis in distress

- Police 100 
One button to contact Israeli police emergency 100.
Your location is also sent to them at the same time.

- Red Color Tzeva Adom 
Provides real-time alerts when missiles or rockets are fired into Israel.

- GraveZ:
Search for deceased in Israel - fill in the deceased's information 
and it will help you narrow the search results according to range of 
year of passing and cemetery region. The interface is in English

- VLC:
Media player that is free and can play any video and audio files, 
as well as network streams. VLC is intended for everyone, is totally free, 
has no ads, no in-app-purchases, no spying and is developed 
by passionate volunteers. 
It is one of the best music / video players. 

Rlive:
Quickly listen to Live Radio Stations from Israel and from around the world. 
The connections are done via the Internet so there is no need for earphone 
Antenea. Rlive is also available via your PC web browser without the app.

- Speedtest by Ookla
Internet speed and performance test

- Morfix
Comprehensive and accurate English Hebrew and 
Hebrew English dictionary and translation free app.

- Sefaria
Sefaria delivers 3,000 years of Jewish texts - Torah, Tanakh, 
Mishnah, Talmud, and more) to your smartphone. All texts in 
the library are available in Hebrew along with a growing body 
of English translations. Search by keyword or browse the 
table of contents to explore texts, translations, and commentaries.

The 42 free and useful applications, descriptions and links are posted at:
https://jr.co.il/training/free-android-applications.htm

Feedback is welcome.

If there is a free, useful app that you use, recommend, and
is not listed, please send me the app name and link and 
I will consider it for a future update.

Please share. Many of your friends and relatives will appreciate
learning about these useful apps.
Thank you!

Have a good night
Jacob 


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Re: [ha-Safran] 2020 Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Recipient

[Rachel Leket-Mor via Hasafran]

A distinctive award for a distinctive librarian! Congratulations, Zachary!
Rachel

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Date: Sunday, 15 March 2020 at 9:53
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Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] 2020 Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Recipient

Hear, hear!!!

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 9:36 AM Annette Goldsmith via Hasafran 
mailto:hasafran@lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
Oh, what an excellent choice! Kol ha-kavod, Zachary!!

Annette

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:19 PM Elliot H. Gertel via Hasafran 
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We have the distinct honor and pleasure of announcing that the 2020 recipient 
of the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award is Zachary M. Baker.

Zachary Baker provided over four decades of dedicated and scholarly service to 
the field of Judaica librarianship and the Association of Jewish Libraries 
beginning in 1976 at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City as 
a cataloger of Yiddish books until 1981 as well as a genealogical reference 
librarian beginning around 1978.  From 1981 to 1987, he worked at the Montreal 
Jewish Public Library and was appointed as its head of technical services circa 
1983.  From 1987-1999, Zachary returned to YIVO as Head Librarian.  Most 
recently, he served as Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica 
Collections in the Stanford University Libraries from 1999-2018, a position 
from which he retired in January 2018.  In addition, from 2010 until his 
retirement, he was the Stanford Libraries’ Assistant University Librarian for 
Collection Development for the Humanities and Social Sciences.  He has 
published numerous articles and bibliographies relating to Yiddish and other 
areas of Jewish studies.


Zachary has been a very active member of AJL for as long as any of us can 
remember--he attended his first AJL conference in 1976.  Among his many 
positions in AJL, he was president of the association from 1994-1996.  He was a 
leading member of the local AJL Annual Convention organizing committee before, 
during, and following this event in 2005 when it took place in Oakland, 
California.  He was also a longtime contributing editor and editor-in-chief of 
Judaica Librarianship.  Zachary received an AJL Judaica Reference honorable 
mention in 2018 for “Resources in Yiddish 
Studies”
 published in: In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies.

Zachary is not only the consummate Judaica librarian but a leading scholar of 
all things Judaic and is especially well-versed in Yiddish studies.  His 
contributions to AJL and the field are so abundant, it would be difficult to 
even begin to take stock of them.  He presented numerous papers at AJL 
Conferences over the years, virtually annually, before his retirement.

On October 9. 2018, “Zachary M. Baker Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis 
Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's 
Who.
  He has been endorsed by Marquis Who's Who as a leader in the field of library 
science.”  Mazel-tov, yasher-koyekh, kol ha-kavod, and congratulations to 
Zachary who is a most worthy recipient of the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award.

Jacqueline Ben-Efraim
Susan Dubin
Elana Gensler
Elliot H. Gertel, Chair
Daniel Scheide

2020 Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee

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The Fanny Goldstein Merit Award, named for the librarian, social activist, and 
founder of National Jewish Book Month, is bestowed in recognition of loyal and 
ongoing contributions to the Association of Jewish Libraries and to the 
profession of Jewish librarianship.

Born on May 15, 1895 [some sources say 1888], Fanny Goldstein devoted her life 
to books and community. She was the first female Judaica librarian and the 
first woman to direct a branch library in Massachusetts, where she was head of 
Boston's West End Branch for many years. A prominent figure in the Boston 
Jewish community, she is best known as the founder of Jewish Book Week, which 
began when Goldstein organized a display of Jewish books at the Boston Public 
Library in 1925.

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[ha-Safran] searching for a Hebrew Gesher book

[Wendie Sittenfield via Hasafran]

Hello amazing safranim,

I am searching for *תפוחים מן המדבר *in Gesher format.

Does anyone know where I could purchase it?

Or, does it exist in pdf format to use with students during our quarantine?

Many thanks in advance.




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[ha-Safran] Shlosha Sipurim by Savyon Liebrecht (Gesher)

[Wendie Sittenfield via Hasafran]

Hello safranim,

I was told by the lovely Chana from Israel Bookshop in Brookline, that *Shlosha
Sipurim *includes the short story, "Apples From the Desert."

Does anyone have a copy of the story that can be scanned and sent to me?

One of my Hebrew teachers would like to use it for online learning during
the quarantine.

Many thanks in advance.




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Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 426, Issue 1

[Natalie Gorvine via Hasafran]

Re: 2020 Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Recipient (Elizabeth Vernon)

*Kol hakavod* to Zachary M. Baker!

*B'shalom*,
Natalie L.Gorvine

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[ha-Safran] Libraries during the coronavirus

[rhaus_com--- via Hasafran]

Dear hasafranim,
I'm wondering what other libraries, esp. those that are part of a larger 
institution, are doing at this time. Obviously, our synagogue has closed down 
for services, but we're keeping a skeleton staff on during the week and are 
floating the idea of having books from the library (wiped down and handled with 
clean hands) hand delivered to those interested (leaving them in bags outside 
residences and picking up in the same way, then wiping down and putting items 
returned in "quarantine" for 2 weeks). We're a small community, so this is not 
impossible. 
Is anyone else considering such a thing? What do you think?
Thanks,
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[ha-Safran] March Jewish Book Carnival

[Heidi Rabinowitz via Hasafran]

The Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from
across the blogosphere, has been posted for March. Our host this month is
The Book of Life Podcast. You can see the Carnival at
https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2020/03/jewish-book-carnival-march-2020.html
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For more information about the Jewish Book Carnival, please see our HQ page
 at the Association of
Jewish Libraries website.



Enjoy! Heidi Rabinowitz

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[ha-Safran] FW: Talking to Kids About the Refugee Crisis, Again by MarjorieIngall

[Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran]

Thank you, Marjorie Ingall for your good article in Tablet.
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/300846/talking-to-kids-about-the-refugee-crisis-again
 
It can be forwarded to our students of all ages.
Amalia W.

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[ha-Safran] Ferrero Pizzinelli from Pitigliano

[Ann Abrams via Hasafran]

Dear safranim,

I'm trying to help one of our rabbis with research.   He's interested in
any biographical info about

Fererro  Pizzinelli

Born 1921 in Pitigliano, Italy

Died in 2015

He wrote a poem that the rabbi is interested in.

Thank you, and stay healthy, everyone!

Ann

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[ha-Safran] Educational and Fun Hotsites

[Jacob Richman via Hasafran]

Hi Everyone!

Here is a list of hotsites that will entertain you and your family
during these trying days:

Free Coloring Pages for Kids
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/kids-coloring-pages.htm

Advanced / Adult Coloring Pages - coloring can be very therapeutic
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/kids-coloring-pages.htm#adult-coloring-pages

Online English Reading Resources for Kids 
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/kids-reading.htm

Jewish Stories
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/jewish-stories.htm

Shabbat Weekly Torah Portion
https://jr.co.il/shabbat.htm#weekly

Torah Online
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/torah.htm

Selected Hebrew Stories with Nikud on Youtube
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/hebrew.htm#hebrew-stories-youtube

Online Hebrew Stories with Nikud  - vowels
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/hebrew.htm#hebrew-stories

Online Fun
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/online-fun.htm
- Printable Crossword Puzzles
- Crossword Puzzles
- Online Word Games
- Online Games
- Optical Illusions
- Real Time Airplane Tracking

Live Feeds, Cameras, Audio, Interactive Maps
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/cameras.htm
- Israel Live Cameras
- New York Live Cameras
- Animal Cameras - note some zoos currently closed
- Real Time Maps
- Audio Feeds - Air Traffic Control, New York Police, Fire, and 
EMS Scanners, etc...

Popular Magazines
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/magazines.htm

and last but not least.
Passover Hotsites 
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/passover.htm

Enjoy!
Please share. Thank you!

Have a good night,
Jacob


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