What if the Nazis had tweeted?

Published on May 23, 2013

What could Goebbels have done with 140 characters? The question, disturbing as it might sound, can no longer be approached only as theoretical.

Propaganda lies in a disguise

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on May 21, 2013

Netanyahu takes flak over bed on a plane

Published on May 13, 2013

Benjamin Netanyahu is changing his mid-air sleeping arrangements after a public flap over a $127,000 custom-built bedroom for the Israeli prime minister and his wife on a flight to London last month.

Hawking and Mohammed

By David Suissa
Published on May 13, 2013

There was so much Jewish outrage last week in the wake of Professor Steven Hawking’s decision to join the academic boycott against Israel, it’s hard to know where to start.

This week from Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on May 13, 2013

The Social Media Rabbi

By Jeremy Fine
Published on April 23, 2013

Facebook Family Photo Album Time (or A Rant On Why I Now Hate Facebook)

By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on April 15, 2013

Responding to Allegations of ‘Totalitarianism’ and to Other Saner Remarks About my Kotel Story

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 9, 2013

Palestinian journalist gets jail term for Abbas insult

Published on March 28, 2013

A Palestinian Authority court sentenced a local journalist to a year in jail on Thursday over a picture posted on Facebook that was deemed insulting to Mahmoud Abbas.

Twitter rife with hate speech, terror activity

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 20, 2013

When it comes to stemming the proliferation of hate speech on social media, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, likes Facebook’s attitude.

Feeding Our Workers

By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Published on March 19, 2013

This week from Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on March 18, 2013

1,600 participate in Facebook contest for Obama speech

Published on March 15, 2013

More than 1,600 Israelis submitted slogans to a U.S. embassy contest for tickets to President Obama's speech in Jerusalem.

Outcry over Israeli soldier’s photo of boy in crosshairs

Published on February 19, 2013

An Israeli soldier has provoked an outcry by publishing a photograph that appeared to show the back of a Palestinian boy's head seen through the crosshairs of a rifle.

Media Framing- how to notice and handle it correctly?

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on February 13, 2013

L.A. Rising For Women - February 14, 2013!

By Tera Greene
Published on February 6, 2013

Petition aims to have Facebook pull anti-Israel page

Published on February 4, 2013

A Facebook petition to remove an anti-Israel page that uses an expletive in its name has 75,000 likes, the removal campaign's creator says.

Petition to delete Israel-haters Facebook page draws immediate support

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 31, 2013

The long-standing Facebook war of words between pro- and anti-Israel partisans has heated up a few degrees with a petition to remove a particularly offensive “F… Israel” page.

Peres using Facebook to urge young people to vote

Published on January 7, 2013

Israeli President Shimon Peres released a Facebook application to encourage young Israelis to vote.

Israeli missing in Los Angeles

By Ryan Torok
Published on January 2, 2013

The son of an Israeli businessman and philanthropist is believed by his father to be missing in Los Angeles.

Hamas forbids local journalists from working with Israeli media

Published on December 26, 2012

The Hamas government in Gaza has forbidden local journalists from working with Israeli media outlets.

Bar-Ilan student kicked out of class for not wearing yarmulke

Published on December 12, 2012

A Bar-Ilan University Talmud professor kicked a male student out of his class for not wearing a yarmulke.

Obama first, Netanyahu 23rd on Forbes most powerful list

Published on December 6, 2012

President Obama for the second straight year was named the world's most powerful person by Forbes magazine, which placed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 23rd on the list.

Israeli faces ‘Obama’ blackface backlash

Published on November 27, 2012

One of the Israeli military's most visible spokesmen is under fire for a photo he posted on his Facebook page captioned "Obama style" in which his face is smeared with mud.

Israel finally joins the online arms race

Published on November 26, 2012

Mere hours after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took down their first Hamas official at the start of Operation Pillar of Defense, an army of young Israelis took to the Internet.

Norwegian youth leader seen encouraging anti-Semitic speech

Published on November 26, 2012

Aspiring Norwegian politician Khalid Haji Ahmed said he was only joking when he wished “best of luck eight times over” to activists who wrote on Facebook that they wished Adolf Hitler could kill more Jews.

Hamas’ lies exposed

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on November 17, 2012

FYI: first person, live reports from Israelis

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on November 16, 2012

Words can kill

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on November 8, 2012

Do You See Beyond Your Own Life?

By Ilana Angel
Published on November 5, 2012

As storm descended on Northeast, Jews took to Internet to share stories and appeal for help

Published on October 30, 2012

At 10 p.m. Oct. 29, as the full brunt of Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the northeastern United States, filmmaker Sandi DuBowski posted an urgent online message.

Facebook removes Hezbollah page

Published on October 18, 2012

Facebook removed pages for Hezbollah, its affiliated Al-Manar television station and its leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.

Anti-Semitic messages left on Jewish Agency Facebook page

Published on October 11, 2012

The Jewish Agency for Israel's Facebook page was inundated with hundreds of explicitly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages.

Facebook blasted for Jewish memes page

Published on September 27, 2012

A Jewish leader in Australia blasted Facebook for continuing to allow access to a page that “constitutes hate speech against Jews.”

Austrian politician probed for publishing hook-nosed banker caricature

Published on August 21, 2012

Prosecutors in Vienna are examining the recent posting of an allegedly anti-Semitic caricature on Austrian politician Heinz-Christian Strache's Facebook page.

Conversations From Twitter – Part 6

By Ilana Angel
Published on June 24, 2012

Facebook acquires Israeli Face.com

Published on June 18, 2012

Facebook acquired an Israeli company that specializes in facial recognition software.

IDF Pride photo was staged, Israeli news site reports

Published on June 14, 2012

A photo posted on the Israel Defense Forces website in honor of Pride Month showing two male soldiers in uniform holding hands was staged, according to an Israeli news website.

Conversations From Twitter – Part 4

By Ilana Angel
Published on June 7, 2012

Conversations From Twitter – Part 3

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 31, 2012

Rabbinical court fines man for being unfaithful on Facebook

Published on May 29, 2012

A woman reportedly proved to an Israeli rabbinical court that her husband was unfaithful by showing it correspondence between him and other women on Facebook.

April fools Facebook

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on May 25, 2012

Conversations From Twitter – Part 2

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 24, 2012

Maarat Ayin: Eduardo Saverin’s decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship

Published on May 23, 2012

By now everyone has heard that Eduardo Saverin, one of the co-founders of Facebook, filed legal papers in September 2011 to formally renounce his American citizenship. Brazilian by birth, Saverin became an American citizen in 1998. Born in Sao Paulo, Saverin’s father was, according to press accounts, a wealthy Jewish industrialist with varied interests in clothing, shipping, real estate and commercial exports.

Senate candidate posts anti-Semitic views, videos on Facebook

Published on May 23, 2012

Thomas Bleming, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wyoming, has posted anti-Semitic videos on his Facebook page.

Zuckerberg Ties the Knot but Money Trumps Marriage

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 22, 2012

Conversations From Twitter – Part 1

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 18, 2012

Scottish police arrest 6 over anti-Semitic Facebook page

Published on May 17, 2012

Six people have been arrested in Scotland for creating an anti-Semitic Facebook page.

Pinterest and the battle for social media dominance

By Lisa Niver Rajna
Published on May 16, 2012

Facebook IPO: Good for the Jews?

Published on May 15, 2012

If the Talmud were written today, would it look like Facebook? First, the rabbis of the Mishnaic period post a Jewish legal rule.

Orthodox rally for a more kosher Internet

Published on May 14, 2012

An upcoming haredi Orthodox mega-rally in New York about the dangers posed by the Internet has a promotional Twitter account.

Wasserman Schultz stands by aide over Facebook flap

Published on April 10, 2012

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the Democratic National Committee's new Jewish outreach liaison should be forgiven for her 6-year-old Facebook post that used the term “Jewbags.”

Singles at Passover saying so long to cell phone, Facebook contacts

Published on April 3, 2012

While Passover is the time to clean out chametz, single Jews apparently will be cleaning out their social lives.

Quit Facebook or risk expulsion, N.Y. Orthodox school orders students

Published on March 28, 2012

An Orthodox Jewish girls' high school in Brooklyn has ordered its 11th-grade students to close their Facebook accounts and pay a fine.

Frenemies?

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on March 22, 2012

The battle to get ‘Bully’ seen by those who need it most

By Danielle Berrin
Published on March 21, 2012

At Sioux City Middle School in Iowa, 12-year-old Alex Libby is the odd-man-out. Seen by his peers as different, he has golden hair, gentle eyes, a wide, flat nose and permanently puckered lips. Together, they might seem to express something both pouty and vulnerable, sweet and sad. Kids are not so kind. “People call me fish face,” he blankly tells the camera in the new documentary “Bully” by filmmaker Lee Hirsch. “I don’t mind.”

Q&A with an expert on bullying

By Danielle Berrin
Published on March 21, 2012

Ron Avi Astor, the Richard M. and Ann L. Thor Professor in Urban Social Development at USC, has been studying the epidemiology of school violence for nearly 30 years. In 1997, he moved his family to Jerusalem for one year to run the first-ever large-scale comprehensive school violence survey in Israel, with his partner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Rami Benbenishty.

The Revolutionary Impact of the Technology Explosion Explained!!!!!

By Rabbi John Rosove
Published on March 20, 2012

Proper etiquette for social media!

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 29, 2012

Don’t strike Iran before Madonna concert, Facebook page begs Bibi

Published on February 13, 2012

A new Facebook page is calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from striking Iran's nuclear sites until after Madonna performs in Israel.