Cyber Seder: Passover Service Via the Internet for Jewish Holiday - sundown this Saturday, produced by WebSine, Inc.Business & High Tech Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2001 As Jews around the world celebrate their exodus from slavery from Pharaoh's Egypt this Saturday night, most will turn to a ceremonial family meal known as the seder, but some will turn on their computers for a "Cyber Seder". Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of will broadcast worldwide the sixth annual Cyber Seder, Passover Service over the Internet at http://www.emanuelnyc.org/seder.html on April 7, 2001. The audio broadcast will begin at 12:00 PM (ET) to coincide with sundown in Israel and continue for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock . The Service will repeat every hour for listeners in every time zone. People from all over the world who otherwise do not have access to a traditional Passover Seder The Passover Seder (Hebrew: סֵדֶר, seðɛɾ, "order", "arrangement") is a Jewish ritual feast held on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover (the 15th day of Hebrew month of Nisan). can listen through their computers to the rabbis, cantor cantor [Lat.,=singer], a singer or chanter, especially one who performs the solo chants of a church service. The office of cantor, at first an honorary one, originated in the Jewish synagogues, in which from early times it was the custom to appoint a lay member to and students of Emanu-El as they celebrate Passover, the holiday that retells the ancient story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. In the past four years over 1,000,000 visitors, from 71 countries have been part of the Cyber Seder ritual meal. Emanu-El's inaugural Cyber Seder was the first Internet broadcast to be included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Television & Radio (NYCity & Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. ). Content of Service: Cyber Seder is in English and includes traditional prayers and music accompanied visually by pages from historic Haggadot from the Klau Library of Hebrew Union College The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (also known as HUC, HUC-JIR, and The College-Institute) is the oldest Jewish seminary in the New World and the main seminary for training rabbis, cantors, educators and communal workers in Reform Judaism. . Receiving Broadcast: Anyone with an Internet connection, sound capabilities and the RealPlayer, which is available for free at www.real.com from Real Networks, Inc. can tune into the audio broadcast at Temple Emanu-El's web site, http://www.emanuelnyc.org. The site also includes a virtual tour of the Sanctuary, a visit to the Temple's Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum, a listing of upcoming events, membership information, weekly bulletin and links to other Judaic resources. Benefactor: The audio broadcast is part of the communications program Software that manages the transmission of data between computers, typically via modem and the serial port. Such programs were very popular for connecting to BBSs before the Internet took off. of the Jeffrey S. Gould Multimedia Center. Mr. Gould, a long-time member and benefactor of the Congregation, also supports the Temple's Passover Seder radio broadcast on WQXR-FM, which reaches thousands of homebound home·bound adj. Restricted or confined to home, as of an invalid. listeners in the New York area. Temple Emanu-El: Founded in 1845, is the largest house of Jewish worship in the world. WebSine(R), Inc.: Produced the "webcast"; a New York based firm specializing in broadcasting over the web. (Websine is a Quinzer Company Affiliate) |
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