> In other words, "look, their scrambling for your attention in this way and that - it's not all necessarily a conspiracy - but you > should understand it, respect it, and know how to read between the lines.."
I always quote J.K.Rowling in the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when talking about web pages in the "Introduccion al Judaismo" class that Sinagoga conservador/masorti offers on Sunday morning, to wit: "Ginny!" said Mr Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. Why didn't you show the diary to me, or your mother? A suspicious object like that, it was clearly full of Dark magic!" One of the exercises is to find some web pages on judaism (not hard there's only about 2,349,103 of them) and then do 3 basic chores: 1) Who wrote this thing 2) Who are their friends and affiliations 3) Does the "contact us" answer a garden-variety question with decent grammar in a timely fashion and sign with a real name. A good page starts with, for example: "You have just landed in a web page that represents Synagogue Such and So, designed to promote a specific branch of judaism. This is our address. This is our telephone number and these are our office hours. Pop on by." Anything less is suspect. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti "La Javura" Valencia (Spain, pop on by any time for the penny tour) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia +34 96 380 2129 =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
