{"id":35490,"date":"2014-03-21T18:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=35490"},"modified":"2014-03-21T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:25:51","slug":"need-purim-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/need-purim-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Need Purim? Google it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Logo_Google_2013_Official.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-post-35490 wp-image-35491 alignleft\" alt=\"Logo_Google_2013_Official\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Logo_Google_2013_Official-300x103.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Logo_Google_2013_Official-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Logo_Google_2013_Official.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/google-brings-purim-alive\/\">Times of Israel blog<\/a> has a heartwarming post about how Google helped a dedicated community bring Purim to an ill child.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/author\/alon-meltzer\/\"> Alon Meltzer <\/a>writes that his shul, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiwp.org\/\">The Hebrew Institute of White Plains<\/a>, an OU shul in Westchester, had wanted to do something special for Amy, a child battling cancer. While Amy couldn\u2019t attend the Megillah reading, Meltzer, with the help of Google Glass, a community member who worked in Google and a robot, found a way to bring the Megillah and Purim carnival to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we did, and hopefully what can be repeated in other communities, was to engage technology in a way that helped unite the community, bring everyone together, and ensure that no one missed out,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe have the opportunity to create a synthesis between technology and our heritage that could draw people together for social, educational, and communal events \u2013 all we need now is the drive to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/google-brings-purim-alive\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times of Israel blog has a heartwarming post about how Google helped a dedicated community bring Purim to an ill child. 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