Today, congregations all over the world celebrated the completion of one cycle of the Torah and the beginning of the new cycle of reading the text for the new year...
On that theme, ROI is thrilled to share with you a project -- created by an ROIer, and which came to fruition due in part to an ROI Grant -- which is designed to bring the weekly Torah portion into the lives of anyone with a computer...delivering each portion in about four minutes.
Called G-dcast, the project uses hip animation to accompany vocals by Jewish writers, thinkers, rabbis, activists and others. The project is a brainchild of Sarah Lefton, a three-time ROIer (most recently as Arts and Culture track moderator) and an amazing package of techno-savvy energy who serves as its producer, and is animated by Nick Fox-Gieg (who was supposed to be at ROI 2006, but that's another story...). Matthue Roth, another ROIer (2007) and writer/poet in his own right, also serves as Torah supervisor and rounds out the team of three, who all hail from vastly different Jewish backgrounds. Read more about them here.
The first episode went live today, in celebration of Simchat Torah and the reboot of Torah reading for the coming year.
How many other ROIers are featured in upcoming G-dcasts? Stay tuned for the answer...
