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