Rabbi for the Extremely Online. Founder @myTechTribe. TED Res. Social @Chabad. Views mine, not employer's. Rabbi as a Service (RaaS)
Brooklyn, Before It Was Cool
Joined June 2008
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Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
who are the smartest / most talented college students you know?
i'd like to fast-track them into an @a16z-backed startup for their next internship or full-time role
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
Last night 100 Jews gathered for our @mytechtribe Tech Shabbat at Novig HQ: some of NYC’s greatest founders, investors, engineers and operators.
In the room: people from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Palantir, Airbnb, Figma, Pinterest, Lyft, monday. com, Asana, Payoneer, Upstart, Stripe and Databricks.
From Novig, Peregrine, Slash, StackAI and Kalshi, plus people from 25+ other startups, from stealth to Series B.
Investors from a16z, Left Lane, Primary, Upfront and Portal.
The room was packed with immaculate vibes and high-energy Jewish pride.
The message was loud and clear: Jews in tech want to find each other, and celebrate together.
Thank you to @j__fort and the Novig team for hosting us. and mazal tov again on the birth of a beautiful baby boy!
Wonderful vibes by @EinhornGabe, @DavidPawlan and all our other incredible cohosts.
Next one soon.
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
📢This kid brings the high energy Chabad Rabbi vibes💥
What's it like growing up on a @ChabadOnCampus Chabad House?
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
The other day at the thrift shop a stranger told me "nice yarmulke".
The yarmulke:
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
When they ask us what the Jewish future looks like, but this is our POV 🤩 #PegishaNYC
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
Glad we could sponsor such an amazing event filled with so many amazing Jewish operators!
Here’s to the next one!🍷
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
no security category but im nominated for ops :D
you can vote below ⬇️
Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including industry leaders like @lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
The opportunity to join with friends and learn Torah together - thank you @Mottel and @MyTechTribe for always having such a welcoming table.
Until next time 🙏🏾✡️♥️
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
Use these Yiddish phrases to impress your Chabad rabbi!
More phrases here: Chabad.org/7540746
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
To all my friends who worked at Foursquare over the years (@MegletNY, @maxsklar, @david_rosenberg ... Crazy how many Tech Tribes OGs came from there!)
Thank you for what you built.
Social that makes real life more engaged, not less, and blessings for success in everything to come.
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
Rabbi Yisroel Rubin, 78, Innovative Scholar Who Led Chabad in New York’s Capital Region.
When Rabbi Y Rubin got to Albany in 1974, he didn’t even begin with a synagogue or a community center. He went with matchbooks and a hot dog cart.
In time, he spearheaded the establishment of more than a dozen Chabad centers:
Chabad.org/7549679
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
My friend @JulienReiman and I were texting about some upcoming excitement at @OpenAI , and he mentioned that he'd recently commited to putting on tefillin every day.
But today, of all days, he left home before wrapping.
As Providence would have it, I had reason to be nearby, and we wrapped.
He was kind enough to share this awesome OpenAI kippa for others to use in the future when they wrap!
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
Bullish on NYC
Bullish on @MyTechTribe
New York is becoming one of Databricks’ biggest AI hubs. 🗽
We’re expanding at 5 Bryant Park to ~120,000 square feet across five floors, including a dedicated Engineering and Research floor.
With teams building technologies behind Genie, Unity Gateway and CustomerLake, our momentum in NYC is only growing.
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
Whats going on in SF tonight?
Any good tech events or people to meet?
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
Sure. The students.
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Student movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic.
britannica.com/topic/Red-Guar…
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
aei.org/education/actu…
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone retweeted
Did The Zohar Predict The Age Of AI?
Parshat Noach and the divine mission of tech.
