LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — AskMoses.com, the world's leading website for Jewish information and the only one offering live chat services with scholars 24 hours-a-day, 6 days a week, has now launched a new website to better serve its visitors.
AskMoses Launches New Website
LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — AskMoses.com, the world’s leading website for Jewish information and the only one offering live chat services with scholars 24 hours-a-day, 6 days a week, has now launched a new website to better serve its visitors.
AskMoses.com has consistently been at the forefront of Jewish Internet innovation, providing live communication via chat-messaging to millions of visitors each year. Now, with its new website, live chat interface and vast online information knowledgebase, the site can reach more people with its new and improved innovative design.
“We’re the first and only Jewish website to offer these services to the public,” said Rabbi Simcha Backman, Director of AskMoses.com. “We decided to take the AskMoses.com experience to a new level to make it more accessible anywhere, anytime.”
The explosive popularity of the website presented a new avenue for AskMoses to disseminate Jewish information. With young people increasingly visiting the website, its creators felt it imperative to offer services geared toward that segment of the population to complement their already popular live chat experience.
“Keeping a website at the cutting edge of technology requires ingenuity,” said Rabbi Backman, adding that AskMoses.com is planning to offer a live chat module for handheld devices within six months.
Founded in 1998 under the auspices of Chabad of California, AskMoses.com offers detailed information about Judaism and lets visitors receive anonymous, live assistance from Jewish scholars who are available 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. Since the site’s founding, its scholars have held millions of live chat sessions, answered several million e-mails, and written thousands of essays. Along the way, they have helped people with everything from simple questions on Jewish holiday customs and researching school reports to complex life challenges like troubled marriages and suicide attempts.
Susan B.
Instead of a new site, why not have more scholars on at the same time since everytime I’ve gone online, I have wait and wait for responses and the scholar is not very attentive to my quesitons and concerns and usually just tell me to speak to my rabbi.
anon
nice new website! And a major Yashar Koach to your dedicated head scholar Rabbi Loschak!
D. Chossid
I have to agree with Susan B. Although askmoses is a great site and I often refer people to it, too often I hear complaints that no one was available, or that the woman “scholar” had no idea of the answer to the question.
With thousands of Chabad shluchim, why can’t they find more people to answer questions?
On a side note, on the Jay Leno show clip, I heard Mendy Pellin say he’s a Rabbi for askmoses. Was that also a joke? I hope so!
All in all though, askmoses is a great resource, and kol hakavod to those who run it.
crownheightser
hei – D. Chossid
he’s actualy on their list o Rabbi’s – not sure if i should laugh or cry.