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Discover Jerusalem

  • Discover Jerusalem
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$29.95
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11261


Product Description

Discover Jerusalem is a multimedia experience...
Join us as we uncover the rich history and secrets behind this most sought after city
for the past 3000 years. Come discover your heritage in Jerusalem...

Discover Jerusalem is simple to use... just drop in the CD and it plays.

It is approximately one hour long.
During that hour you will be whisked through 3000 years of history, archaeology and mystery.

The CD walks you through the old city.
Everything is narrated and explained.
Aerial views and special effects all add to your tour.

You will visit famous sites as well as those that are off the beaten path.
Even if you are regular visitor to the Old City you will benefit from this amazing CD.

It is complete....

It covers the history of the Old City from First Temple times up until today.
It includes information on personalities that lived in Jerusalem and helped form its distinctive character.

Discover Jerusalem on CD-ROM is an ideal tool for home and school use.

It makes a terrific gift for just about any occasion!

Reviews - Discover Jerusalem

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Jerusalem Post (11/1/2000) wrote:
Discover Jerusalem, Its History & People, a CD-ROM in English, by Torah
Educational Software (www.jewishsoftware.com) and Donchin Studios, requires
Windows 95 or higher and Pentium 133 or better phone orders in Israel 1-800-212626 and in the US 1-800-925-6853, for all
ages.
Rating: **** 1/2 Four and one half stars

Israel needs all the help it can get when it comes to explaining its cause
to the world. The Foreign Ministry seemed to wake up a bit late when the
Aksa uprising broke out on Rosh Hashana and Israel needed to counter
pro-Palestinian propaganda; in addition, there were ­ and still are ­ too
few government spokesmen blessed with fluent English, a persuasive manner
and a keen understanding of the foreign media.

Torah Educational Software, a Jerusalem-based developer and distributor of
high-quality Jewish software for children and adults, saw the crying need
some time ago for better information about the Israeli case for a united
Jerusalem.

TES president Emanuel Fishman approached Nachum Duchin,
a former US video filmmaker now living in Beit Shemesh who has
worked for ABC TV¹s Good Morning America and other US programs.

When I saw that every CD-ROM or video on Jerusalem was apologetic for our
Jewish
presence in Jerusalem, I decided to make a disk about the Old City that
speaks for us, without insulting anybody else,² says Fishman.

They then converted the video of several hour¹s length into an hour-long
CD-ROM,
losing a bit of resolution on the screen for the sake of the material and
without cutting any of the narration.

Why make a disk for a personal computer when you have a video cassette?
Fishman explains that many in the haredi audience are forbidden by their
rabbis
to have a TV screen and video cassette recorder at home, but a computer and
CD-ROM
disk drive are regarded as kosher.

Just insert the disk into your drive, and the film immediately comes up
without installation. Highly professional, the film offers magnificent
bird¹s-eye-view scenes and modern editing techniques.

Although the name of the disk refers to Jerusalem, the disk f

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