Busy Jews praying on BlackBerrys
Updated on 03 November 2008
Thousands of observant Jews around the world are praying three times a day - using their BlackBerry handheld devices.
A software programme for BlackBerries combines Hebrew prayers and technology, the brainchild of two entrepreneurs who attended New York's Yeshiva University.
The programme, which provides texts of daily prayers instead of the traditional, printed book, has been dubbed "the JewBerry".
The programme is not linked to Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry.
"Throughout the day, Jews gather in office-building stairwells and conference rooms to pray, and while sometimes you might not remember your prayer book, no one goes anywhere without their BlackBerry," says co-creator Jonathan Bennett, of Cedarhurst, Long Island.
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