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Monthly Newsletters

November 2011

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Confirmation is a somewhat less widespread coming of age ritual that occurs when a child is 16 or 18. Confirmation was originally developed by the Reform movement, which scorned the idea that a 13 year old child was an adult (but see explanation below). They replaced bar and bat mitzvah with a confirmation ceremony at the age of 16 or 18. However, due to the overwhelming popularity of the bar or bat mitzvah, the Reform movement has revived the practice. I don’t know of any Reform synagogues that do not encourage the practice of bar and bat mitzvahs at age 13 today.

In some Conservative synagogues, however, the confirmation concept has been adopted as a way to continue a child’s Jewish education and involvement for a few more years.

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You are invited and encouraged to let us know the name and yahrzeit of your beloved ones who have departed from us. We will honor their memory by announcing their name at our synagogue during services. May you be comforted among all the mourners of Israel.

In Jewish tradition, when the year of mourning is over, mourners are expected to return to a fully normal life. There are several occasions each year when our loved ones who have passed on are memorialized. The most significant of these is yahrzeit, the anniversary of the death, which is observed according to the Hebrew calendar. As is the case in all Jewish holy days, yahrzeit observance begins at night. A 24-hour candle is lit and one may attend synagogue to recite the Kaddish [the memorial prayer]. It is traditional to avoid attending any celebrations or parties on the day of yahrzeit, and some people fast on that day.

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We invite you to send us the name(s) of loved ones who are facing the challenge of illness, that we may support them, and you, by inclusion in our communal Mi Sheberakh prayers.

The Mi Sheberakh prayer is one of the central Jewish prayers for those who are facing the challenge of illness. The pray includes pleas for both physical and spiritual healing within the community of others facing illness. Traditionally, the Mi Sheberakh is said in synagogue when the Torah is read. In modern times, the Mi Sheberakh is often said by professional health caregivers, patients, and loved ones at various times during treatment and recovery from illness of all sorts.

The Widgetkit Media Player is a HTML5 audio and video player completely built HTML and CSS. You can easily embed video files into your website by using the HTML5 video element. A Flash player fallback is included for all unsupported browsers.

Features

• Native playback for modern HTML5 browsers
• Completely built with HTML and CSS
• Same UI in all browsers
• Create our own skins
• Flash player fallback for unsupported browsers
• Works with Joomla 1.5, 1.6, WordPress and Stand-alone

Examples

This is a MP3 Audio Sample:

How To Use

Use the HTML5 video element to embed video in your website. For example:

<video src="/video.mp4" width="320" height="240"></video>

You can also provide multiple sources, to add support for the different video formats like h.264, WebM or Ogg:

<video width="320" height="240"> 	<source type="video/mp4"  src="/video.mp4" /> 	<source type="video/webm" src="/video.webm" /> 	<source type="video/ogg"  src="/video.ogv" /> </video> 

Use the HTML5 audio element to embed MP3 files in your website. For example:

<audio src="/audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3"></audio>

The Widgetkit Twitter module is the neatest way to display tweets directly on your website. All displayed tweets get cached so they show up super fast, even if Twitter is not available.

Features

• Filter tweets by hashtags, words, from users, to users, referencing users
• Block tweets using a blacklist
• Tweets are cached for high performance
• Tweets show up even if Twitter is not available
• 3 different styles to show your tweets
• Build with HTML5 using article and time elements
• Works with Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and WordPress

How To Use

Create a Twitter module in Joomla or a Twitter widget in WordPress and publish it in a module position. A lot of options are available to choose which tweets you want to show.

For example you can show only tweets from a specific user or tweets that contain a certain hash-tag or a specific word. All options can be combined. To filter by more than one word or user use a space between them. For example: yootheme joomla.

The Widgetkit Spotlight allows you to add an overlay to your images which fades or moves in on mouse hover. The overlay can be an image or HTML content. The default magnifier spotlight is a perfect match to be used with a lightbox.

Features

• Create nicely animated image overlays
• Supports custom image or HTML content overlays
• 5 different animation modes
• Build on the latest jQuery version
• Works with Joomla 1.5, 1.6, WordPress and Stand-alone

Examples

If no custom overlay is set the default spotlight fades in an overlay with an magnifier image. If you define a custom overlay you can choose between different animations – fade, bottom, top, right and left.

Custom Overlay (Bottom)

Custom Overlay (Right)

Custom Overlay (Top)

Custom Overlay (Left)

How To Use

Use the HTML5 custom data attribute data-spotlight to activate the spotlight.

<a data-spotlight="on" href="/mypage.html"> 	<img src="/image.jpg" width="180" height="120" alt="" /> </a>

To create a custom overlay use a div element with the CSS class overlay. You can set the effect parameter to the data attribute. For example:

<a data-spotlight="effect:bottom;" href="/mypage.html"> 	<img src="/image.jpg" width="180" height="120" alt="" /> 	<div class="overlay">Custom Overlay</div> </a>

You can set the effect parameter to fade, bottom, top, right and left.

The Widgetkit Lightbox allows you to view images, HTML and multi-media content on a dark dimmed overlay without having to leave the current page.

Features

• Display images, HTML, Iframes, Ajax requests, YouTube, Vimeo and SWF movies
• Group lightboxes and mix different content types
• 3 different opening and closing transitions
• 4 different caption styles
• Keyboard and mouse scroll wheel navigation
• Build on the latest jQuery version
• Works with Joomla 1.5, 1.6, WordPress and Stand-alone

Examples

Different animations – fade, elastic and none

Different title positions – float, inside and over

Various examples in one gallery (try also using the keyboard and mouse scroll wheel)

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Swf
• Inline
• Iframe

How To Use

Use the HTML5 custom data attribute data-lightbox to activate the lightbox. You can set various lightbox parameters to the data attribute. For example:

<a data-lightbox="width:1000;height:700;" href="https://www.google.com">Lightbox</a>

Here is a list of the most common parameters:

• titlePosition – How should the title show up? (float, outside, inside or over)
• transitionIn – Set a opening transition. (fade, elastic, or none)
• transitionOut – Set a closing transition (fade, elastic, or none)
• overlayShow – Set to true or false
• width – Set a width in pixel
• height – Set a height in pixel
• padding – Set a padding in pixel