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Mitzvah mobile: The iPhone app that checks your Jewishness

Don’t even think of breaking Shabbat — or this iPhone ‘app’ will tell the rabbi

February 25, 2010 15:17
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Simon Round,

Simon Round

1 min read

It is said that there is an application for everything on the Apple iPhone. So what about an app to make you a holier Jew?

Well, now there is.

From America comes the mitzvah app - which is set to take the community by storm. The Orthodox world, which has traditionally been suspicious of digital technology, is embracing this development, although there is a minority that feels that the new app will herald a Big Brother culture in Judaism.

When the system is fully up and running, strategically placed sensors will enable the mitzvah app automatically to recognise when you have entered a synagogue, a Jewish community centre, nursing home or Jewish communal building, and will award points accordingly.

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