Article: Orthodox Minyan Gets Wired

Eve Jacobson Kessler
Forward
12-09-1994
Orthodox Minyan Gets Wired.

One of the downsides of volunteering for a synagogue board or committee, members report, is the enormous amount of time spent talking in boring meetings. One enterprising congregation, however, has devised a way around the meeting blahs. It conducts much of its business through computers, using electronic mail traveling over the Internet. That may sound a bit hi-tech for synagogues that still pound out correspondence on typewriters in offices equipped with Gestetner machines and rotary phones, but the Palo Alto Orthodox Minyan, in California's Silicon Valley, is, as they say, "wired."

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