Archive for October 2010
Recovery, a Rabbi and Twitter: A Match Made in Heaven
Another of my videos from #140conf, the Real-Time Web and “Now.” Enjoy!
From his website, http://recoveryrabbi.tumblr.com here’s the Recovery Rabbi’s “about me:”
Rabbi Yisrael Pinson, is the Director of the Daniel B. Sobel Friendship House – a rabbi and spiritual mentor to the Jewish recovery community of Metropolitan Detroit. Since joining the Friendship Circle in May 2002 he has galvanized the outreach efforts of the Friendship House by becoming the spiritual mentor of the more than 500 addicts and their families who seek spirituality and support from the organization.
Rabbi Pinson received his high school and college-level education at several intensive private schools the world over, including the distinguished Machon LeSmicha Center for Ordination in Melbourne, Australia. Rabbi Pinson has served communities and individuals from the Caribbean to Canada and is fluent in four languages.
Rabbi Yisrael Pinson has helped create a Jewish Recovery Community in Metro-Detroit where recovering addicts and their families are helped through support, guidance, friendship & community. Rabbi Yisrael facilitates Jewish Recovery meetings, where recovering addicts from all 12-step programs meet and share regularly. He also teaches classes on Judaism & Recovery.
They’re Not Internet Friends, They’re Just Friends
So, I’ve threatened to restart my blogging several times in the last couple of years. My wonderful mother-in-law Mary keeps sending messages through my wife Sheila to blog more. The muse-thief responds by stalking me with work and other joy-shitting techniques over which we all have power but too-often shelf.
Anissa Mahew is the most recent example of someone over whom the muse-thief has zero power. He doesn’t even spend a lot of time chasing her because she’s proves so much stronger. So I’d like to share her with you.
It was my honor to attend an event put on by Jeff Pulver with the help of many wonderful people spreading the “now” of the real-time internet composed of tools like the internet, Twitter, Facebook and many others. It what we do with them that count or as someone there said, “Twitter isn’t cool. Doing interesting things using Twitter is.”
Check out her blog at: http://www.freeanissa.com
and on Twitter @anissamahew
Please spend 10 minutes with Anissa. You won’t regret it. — The Vinman
