“…no surprise that the remarkable burst of Jewish innovation in the past fifteen years coincided with the emergence of a digitized generation…”

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It is no surprise that the remarkable burst of Jewish innovation in the past fifteen years coincided with the emergence of a digitized generation or that the innovation took a quantum leap forward when social media became the norm. This decade’s big story will be the attempt of that generation to put down roots and establish a stable infrastructure without losing the creative soul of their flexible and mobile origins.

Aryeh Bernstein, “Virtual Strength: How the Internet Fosters Community”, Sh’ma (June 2014), 6.

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