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Jewish organizations to deliver 20,000 pounds of food to Oklahoma
In the wake of the disastrous tornado in Oklahoma, The National Council of Young Israel has joined with the Masbia organizations, as well as with Agri Star Meat & Poultry…
Industry is best bet for peace, Israeli billionaire says
On a new industrial park in Israel's largest Arab town, a software plant belonging to a multibillion-dollar U.S.-listed firm sits cheek-by-jowl with two small Arab-owned businesses: a metal factory and one producing tools for brain surgery.
Adelsons donate $40 million to Birthright
Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, donated $40 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation.
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Billy Crystal to star in Larry Charles’ FX series
Looks like FX is going to be injecting some humor into their lineup. Not a bad idea, we think, after many seasons of the awesome yet dark series “Justified” or…
Civility replaces violence in ‘Last White Night’
In June 1965, during the most violent days of the civil rights movement, 21-year-old Paul Saltzman drove from Toronto to Mississippi to become a freedom fighter with the Student Nonviolent…
Spielberg to produce ‘Halo’ television series, plus other news from the Xbox One announcement
Microsoft Corp gave the world a first look at its new Xbox One on Tuesday, announcing that its first gaming console in eight years will come with exclusive video and…
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A talent agent turns yogurt maven
Amy Salko Robertson — producer of such films as “The Oh in Ohio,” “Lab Rats” and “When Do We Eat?” a comedy set at a Passover seder —realized that she…
Maccabi Tel Aviv back on top but coach future uncertain
Champions Maccabi Tel Aviv have reasserted their dominance of Israeli soccer but media reports on Tuesday suggested they might have to continue their revival without coach Oscar Garcia.
Angelina’s breast cancer victory isn’t for celebrities only
Actress Angelina Jolie just announced that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning that she was genetically predisposed to cancer. Her disclosure was a powerful show of solidarity with…
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Propaganda lies in a disguise
Muhammad al-Durrah, the little boy who became the symbol of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, is returning to the headlines after a decade. A photo of him, crying, leaning against a wall…
Male Eating Disorders: A Real Thing
Recently, People Magazine came out with an article about Ashley Hamilton talking openly about his struggles with an eating disorder. I applaud Ashley for coming out about having an eating…
Religion at the End of The Big C
Last night, Showtime’s The Big C aired its final episode. After three seasons of half-hour installments, this comedy returned for a shortened final season consisting of four hour-long episodes. Subtitled…
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Anti-Semitism 2.0: Who are the modern anti-Semites?
Rebooting Bubbie
Who’s your bubbie? When it comes to food, she might not be the short, Yiddish-speaking grandmother that comes to mind.
New cybercrime law in the United Arab Emirates is rights issue
Trying to stop the Internet these days may feel like Sisyphus pushing a rock to the top of the mountain. But officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are certainly giving it a try.
Words can kill
Criminalize anti-Semitic websites, Rome provincial council says in motion
Rome’s provincial council is calling for websites that promote racism and anti-Semitism to be blocked and such online hatred criminalized.
Riots, filmmaking and the wrong thing to say
New internet censorship in Gaza
Many Gazans have long lamented that there’s not much to do in the Gaza Strip. There are no movie theaters, pool halls or bowling alleys -- all of which are seen as “un-Islamic.” And it’s not getting any better. In fact, now, curbs are being extended further – to the Internet.
Online anti-Semitism in Spain doubled in 2011, report says
Online anti-Semitism in Spain doubled in volume last year, according to a Spanish Jewish community monitor.
Rabbinical court fines man for being unfaithful on Facebook
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.
For haredi Orthodox, Internet threat harkens back to the Enlightenment
To the outside observer, the Charedi Orthodox anti-Internet rally at New York’s Citi Field may have looked uniform: a single mass of black hats, white shirts and brown beards.
Teach children to be their own Internet filters
Tens of thousands of Jews filled Citi Field in Queens on Sunday and heard from haredi Orthodox leaders that the Internet should be avoided in the home at all costs and used sparingly at work, and then only with a filter blocking content that could be damaging spiritually.
Haredim fill N.Y. stadium to decry Internet’s dangers
The sellout crowd that filled the New York Mets’ Citi Field on Sunday night wore black and white, not the Mets’ blue and orange.
Haredim fill N.Y. baseball stadium to decry error of Internet’s ways
The sellout crowd that filled Citi Field on Sunday night wore black and white, not the New York Mets' blue and orange.
Orthodox rally for a more kosher Internet
An upcoming haredi Orthodox mega-rally in New York about the dangers posed by the Internet has a promotional Twitter account.
Survey discovers Israel’s digital divide
The higher one's income the more likely he will be connected to the Internet, a new survey of Israelis' Internet use has found.
Quit Facebook or risk expulsion, N.Y. Orthodox school orders students
An Orthodox Jewish girls' high school in Brooklyn has ordered its 11th-grade students to close their Facebook accounts and pay a fine.
The battle to get ‘Bully’ seen by those who need it most
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
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!!!!!
An internet guide to finding Israeli products
You could say it all started in 1967, when one of Howard Bernstein's daughters got married.
Palestinians say hackers hit Internet services
Hackers disrupted Palestinian Internet services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Palestinian telecoms minister said, alleging that a foreign government was behind the interference.
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain is feeling ‘Connected’
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain is certainly no Luddite. She co-founded the Webby Awards in 1996 to showcase excellence on the then-fledgling Internet. Yet 15 years later she, like many of us, is ambivalent about the technology that allows people to connect to the web 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Can Match.com save you from dating a sex offender?
Single Mother or Single Woman?
Voicemail and My Father’s Outgoing Message…
More Facts, Questions and Things I Will Never Understand or Have Answers To.
The blogger is a dog
Or a lunatic, extremist or just someone whose opinion you would dismiss were you really to know him. Like the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon, where one dog explains to the other that "On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog," we are inundated today with information from sources we know nothing about. So though it is unlikely that the blog or column that you are reading actually was written by a dog, it is more than possible that it was written by someone with a personal or political agenda.
Orthodox grapple with ubiquity of Internet
For Josh, a Brooklyn computer technician who deals almost exclusively with a haredi Orthodox clientele, it was quite the conundrum: A man brings his computer to be cleaned of a virus that Josh believes was acquired while visiting a pornographic website. A few weeks later the man returns with the same problem. Should Josh (not his real name) advise his client about which sites will give him the rush he's after without harming his computer?
Yad Vashem launches Farsi YouTube chanel
Yad Vashem has launched a YouTube channel in Farsi and an expanded version of its Farsi website. The Farsi YouTube channel launched Sunday contains survivor testimonies, archival footage and mini-lectures by Holocaust historians on topics such as contemporary anti-Semitism, and what makes the Holocaust a unique historical event. The comprehensive new website includes a chronological and thematic narrative about the Holocaust with related video, photos, documents and artifacts; frequently asked questions about the Holocaust; a lexicon of terms; online exhibitions including a multimedia presentation of the Auschwitz Album in Farsi; and stories of Righteous Among the Nations.
Just Like the Internet You See in the Movies
No Web sites that choke your browser. No waiting for YouTube clips to buffer. No email attachments too big to send. No files that take forever to download. No “Loading – please wait” messages, or spinning beach balls, or slowwwwly lengthening bars meant to tame your mounting impatience.
Broadband: Not for kids only
The average broadband offering in Japan is 10 times faster than the average service available to U.S. consumers -- at half the cost. People in countries like Finland, France, Korea, Sweden and Italy also pay less to get more.
True confessions of an online dating addict #20: Don't believe everything you read
True confessions of an online dating addict #19: I feel badly about the way it ended
Welcome to the Muslim virtual world
First Person: Rivky and Gabi were truly special people
Before I entered the Chabad house in Mumbai, I thought, "What kind of people would leave a comfortable and secure life in a religious community to live in the middle of Mumbai; a dirty, difficult, crowded city?" As I got to know Rivky and Gabi over the course of this past summer, I understood that G-d creates some truly special people willing to devote their lives to bettering the world.
True confessions of an online dating addict #18: Keep mouth shut
True confessions of an online dating addict #17: Things are not going well
True confessions of an online dating addict #16: Marathon date with Jeremy
True confessions of an online dating addict #15: All that’s left is me
True confessions of an online dating addict #14: The next morning I evaluate the date
True confessions of an online dating addict #13: Jeremy looks like someone I met offline—normal
True confessions of an online dating addict #12: How you kiss is who you are
True confessions of an online dating addict #11: I’m not that kind of girl
True confessions of an online dating addict #10: Dating more than one person at a time
True confessions of an online dating addict #9: Out of 80 emails, it’s down to two guys
True confessions of an online dating addict #8: Snappy answers to stupid questions
With apologies to MAD Magazine
True confessions of an online dating addict #7: Not your typical Jewish parents
They only want the best for me.
Gawker’s got Sarah Palin’s personal e-mails
True confessions of an online dating addict #6: Nice guys finish last
True confessions of an online dating addict #5: Shopping for a new date
There's nothing better than coming home from a bad date and shopping for someone else.
True confessions of an online dating addict #4: Ben sounds cool and he lives nearby
In the J-blogosphere, everybody knows your screen name
"I didn't know there were non-Jewish bloggers," joked Likud leader and blogger Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, who made a last-minute appearance to speak to the bloggers.
True confessions of an online dating addict #3: ‘I will not flake this time around’
1. Return all emails. 2. Return phone calls 3. Follow up on all the guys I contacted . . .
True confessions of an online dating addict #1
Amy Klein's 'confessions,' in graphic novel format. Illustrated by Amber Shields
Go ahead, gogle me
If someone's life is not worth at least one page of Google search results, does that mean he hasn't accomplished or written anything of enough import to be broadcast online?
Dating today is a menage a tech
No more. The world has changed and so has dating. Today, when we date someone, it's no longer just the two of us. No. Now, it's always a threesome: you, him and that all-intrusive technology. It's what I call a "Menage a Tech."
Jewish identity defined—a la Facebook
Facebook has become far more than a social network; it is a virtual social necessity. The Jewish community has created a haven for there, claiming hundreds of groups, applications and pieces of Jewish flair.
Pitfalls of the Wiki Bible Project
Halacha is just a click away at online yeshiva
Like other virtual learning and videoconferencing, Web Yeshiva students see and hear each other and the instructor in the virtual classroom.
Ring ring! Cluephone for Olmert’s diaspora task force
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