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 The Tanach for All app: The whole Bible on your iPhone. From tehillim to kosher restaurants, from kaparot to recipes, our tech guru picks the top 33 applications.  Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Rabbi Jason Miller Special To The Jewish Week //As more Jewish people acquire the latest in handheld technology – think iPhones, iPads, Android-powered smartphones, BlackBerrys and tablet PCs — there will be more Jewish-themed applications available for download.// //Some of these apps will be utilities for checking the Hebrew date or learning about the weekly Torah portion. Other apps will be novelties like making shofar sounds for Rosh HaShanah and grogger sounds on Purim. With many Jewish developers around the world, you can be certain there will be no dearth of Jewish apps in the coming year.// //What follows is a roundup (in no particular order) of the top Jewish-themed apps from the past year. This is far from an exhaustive list as there are hundreds of other Jewish apps available, including Jewish and Israeli newspaper versions, apps that let you donate to particular charities, a Gematria (Jewish numerology) calculator, and a guide for keeping kosher at Disney World. Check out [|www.jewishiphonecommunity.org] for a comprehensive listing of Jewish apps as they are released.// **UTILITIES:**



POCKET iSIDDUR – Free: This free iPod and iPhone version of the prayerbook comes with every version imaginable, from Sephardic to Ashkenazic. The new version has adjustable font size. iPad version also available. Available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. SIDDUR - $9.99: RustyBrick’s version of the siddur for Apple’s mobile devices is expensive, but impressive. Comes with real-time zmanim (prayer times) for each day based on your location. Available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. iPARASHAH - $4.99: Created by JACA Software Solutions, this app gives you the weekly Torah portions in the palm of your hand. Search for any parsha by name or date with this app. Available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">TANACH FOR ALL - $3.99: Get the whole Jewish Bible on your iPhone, iPod or iPad. Developed by Yaniv Kalsky, the latest version includes Parshat Hashavuah and an onscreen Hebrew keyboard. Available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">MILA-4-PHONE - Free: Learn basic Hebrew on your iPod thanks to Birthright Israel NEXT, which just released this free Hebrew word flashcard app. Developed by Rusty Brick, this free app makes building up a Hebrew vocabulary quick and easy. Available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">TEFILAT HADERECH FOR ALL - $0.99: Another app by Yaniv Kalsky. This provides the English and Hebrew version of the traveler’s prayer for travel by air, sea, and long car trips. Available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">iBLESSING - $0.99: Not sure which blessing goes with which food? This app will remind you which blessing to say. If you’re Hebrew reading isn’t very good, just listen to the app say the blessing in Hebrew or English. Available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">iZKOR – $0.99: This app provides the text for the mourning rituals in Judaism that are said in all prayer services as well as at funerals and memorial services. Just input the name of the deceased and it will generate the memorial prayer for the individual.All of the following are available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">KOSHER - $4.99: Find the nearest kosher restaurant from the exhaustive Shamash.org database with over 2,000 trusted restaurants to choose from. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">TEHILLIM - $1.99: The entire book of Psalms with linear translation. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">iTALMUD - $24.99: CrownRoad developed this expensive English translation of the Talmud complete with thousands of footnotes, references and insights. You certainly get what you pay for. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">PIRKEI AVOT - Free: The teachings of Pirkei Avot, the ethics of the sages, available in Hebrew and translated into English, Spanish and Portuguese. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">KITZUR SHULCHAN ARUKH - $14.99: The entire Jewish legal code laid out in a beautiful format. Developed by RustyBrick, this app allows for quick keyword searches for specific laws and bookmarks to save texts for later. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">HEBREW/ENGLISH TRANSLATOR - Free: RustyBrick’s dictionary is easy to use and accurate. For a free Hebrew-English dictionary, you can’t do better. Great onscreen keyboard and copy/paste functionality. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">HEBREW CALENDAR - $4.99: Functions just like iCal, but with the luach (Jewish calendar) including all Jewish holidays, z’manim (special times for prayer including sunrise and sunset), event-setting feature, and easy switching between Hebrew and Gregorian calendars. Easy to read fonts on all screens. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">KOSHER COOKBOOK - $2.99: Choose meat, dairy, or parve meals and this app guides you to the perfect recipe. Also develops the shopping list for each recipe and allows you to email the shopping list to others. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Available from<span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">[| jewishsoftware.com] **:** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">JASTROW DICTIONARY - $14.99: The complete Talmud dictionary with over 120,000 entries and bi-directional Hebrew-English and Aramaic-English references.Available from jewishsoftware.com <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**NOVELTIES:** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Available from Apple’s iTunes App Store: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> iMENORAH - $2.99: Developed by Matthew Parrot, this virtual menorah lets you light candles with the touch of the screen and then watch them burn down on each night of the holiday. Perfect for small children and dorm rooms where lighting candles is not allowed. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">@THE KOTEL - $1.99: This app lets you put a kvittel (note) in the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem. Developed by Yoram Berkowicz, this app allows for note writing in several languages. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">SHABBAT CANDLES - $0.99: Light Shabbat candles virtually every Friday night from anywhere. Great app for the business traveler who might not be able to actually light the Sabbath candles. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">LULAV WIZARD - $0.99: Download this app to virtually shake the lulav and etrog in a realistic 3D motion with the blessings appearing on the screen. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">PARVEOMETER - Free: Press the meat or dairy button after your meal and this app will count down for you. You can set it to your own custom for the dairy countdown after a meat meal so you won’t miss a minute of being able to eat your ice-cream. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">KAPAROT - Free: The folks at PETA would be thrilled to see the custom of waving a chicken above ones head solely done virtually before Yom Kippur, but this app only provides the blessings for the ritual. It should be noted that a sack of money can be used in lieu of the animal. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">GROGGER - $0.99: If you forget to bring your noisemaker to synagogue on Purim, don’t worry and just download this app. Developed by Stuart Rubin, this app makes enough grogger sound effects to impress the whole congregation and drown out the name of the wicked Haman.