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Kerry says Israelis, Palestinians must make tough decisions
Israeli and Palestinian leaders must decide soon on whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday.
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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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.
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.
Oh, What a Tangled ‘Web’ She Weaves
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.
Google Street View in Israel to go online
Google's Street View in Israel will go online next week.
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!!!!!
Web list accuses Israelis of ‘war crimes’
A list of more than 200 Israelis is circulating on the Internet accusing them of war crimes and listing many of their purported home addresses.
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
The Los Angeles Bagels
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.
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
The Los Angeles Bagels
To Sam Zell, however, running the Times, as well the other papers he bought when he acquired the Tribune Co., isn't a public trust, and its stewardship doesn't include serving the public interest, no more than would running a bagel joint.
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
Online Antisemitism 2.0. “Social Antisemitism” on the “Social Web”
Jewish leaders defend Baruch Obama
Serenity now
Top Five reasons people came to JewishJournal.com this month
New congregations net results online
For dozens of new congregations and minyans, or prayer communities, like Ikar, the Internet is not just a faster, more convenient communication tool. It's a central organizing mechanism and community-building tool, filling the roles performed in more traditional synagogues by administrative staff, newsletters, membership committees, religious school, even rabbis.
Online social scene clicks with younger set
Save the few Web sites with supertight security (most of which are considered too babyish by tweens and up), worry resounds throughout kiddie cybersocial world. While parental e-mail consent may be required before activating a child's registration, there's no way for a Web site to determine whether the e-mailed permission is indeed linked to a parent.
There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on over Power Plate
The Power Plate features a vibrating platform that oscillates 30 to 50 times per second. Each time, it stimulates the nervous system and creates a reflex in the body that causes the muscles to contract. The Power Plate Web site lists dozens of college and professional sports teams as using vibration training in their regimens.
Sheinkin Street meets superhighway
Michael Simkin, CEO of C-Do Networks, believes that Sheinkin still retains enough of its eccentricity and bustle to perpetuate its mythic status.
Producer Turns to Web For Faith-Based Edutainment
A young man drives up to his garage and tries to open the door via remote, but it won't open. In the driveway next door, a Chasidic man blows a shofar, the long curly ram's horn, and -- presto! -- his garage door opens. "These High Holy Days, stick with what works," scrolls on the computer screen of the Internet film "Shofar, So Good." The short film closes with the young man blowing his own shofar to open his car's trunk.
7 Days in the Arts
7 Days in the Arts
Avoid an Oops in Shooting Your Video
Whether you're trying to capture a wedding, b'nai mitzvah or 50th anniversary celebration, the day will come and go whether you're ready for it or not. Unless you're prepared, the opportunity to capture family history can easily slip through your fingers.
Stumped by Pesach Meals? Hit the ‘List’
While the focus of the list is Jewish food, perusing its offerings is like enjoying the old commercial for Levy's Rye Bread: You don't have to be Jewish to love it. Nor do you have to be Jewish to join in.
A Tenuous Claim as a Jew for Jesus
You know Jews for Jesus, the lovable San Francisco-based organization that uses the appeal of Jewish kinship to introduce Jews to "Y'shua ha Mashiach" (Jesus Christ). Its executive director is a pleasant fellow named David Brickner. After he critiqued my book, "Why the Jews Rejected Jesus," in a Jews for Jesus publication and later graciously retracted a prominent factual error he made, we started e-mailing.
Europe’s Jews Caught in Cartoon Furor
As frequent targets of anti-Semitic cartoons -- many of them in the Arab press -- Jews on one hand sympathized with the Muslim outrage over depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, which is considered by Muslims to be blasphemous.
But Jews joined many others in expressing shock at the level of violence the controversy sparked.
Valentine’s Day.com
"J-ated," as in "jaded," might be the best way to describe the ennui that has set in among many JDaters these days, singles tired of the merry-go-round of endless possibility and disappointment.
In spite of that, or because of it, new dating Web sites seem to pop up every day.
Nation & World Briefs
Briefs
A Blog World After All
Last year, the Pew Internet and American Life Project estimated that 8 million American adults had created blogs. Although the number of specifically Jewish blogs is unconfirmed, those with knowledge of the blogosphere say the pool is substantial. Jewish blogs, or Web diaries, run the gamut from kosher cooking to Israeli advocacy. They include leftist rants, dating melodramas, rabbinic ruminations and secular musings from all corners of the globe.
The Tangled Web
It's probably old news to report that there are specialized Jewish search engines -- there have been since the earliest days of the Web -- but there are still new ones emerging.
Unhappy New Year!
OK, I'll be absolutely honest -- I spent this past New Year's Eve alone. Sure, I could have salvaged the situation with a round of frantic last-minute calling, but I never got around to it because I had to go and get into a fight. Fortunately, I was the only one who got hurt. You see, I picked a fight with myself. And on New Year's Eve day, no less. Almost out of nowhere and with virtually no warning, I started in on myself.
Hava Flashback
Authors Roger Bennett, Jules Shell and Nick Kroll discovered in one long B.S. session that nothing quite engaged their friends, Jew and non-Jew alike, as a trip back down memory lane to the day of their or their friends' bar or bat mitzvah.
Class Notes: Young Mr. Wizards
Class Notes
Web Links Your Wallet to Gifts From Israel
Presents from the Holy Land have resonance for both the recipient and for Israel, whose economy could use a little boost from American consumers.
‘Lucky’ Friends
Some high-powered connections forged through the boys' parents landed them an appearance on Fox's "Good Day L.A." and placed some of their Lucky Pix around the necks of celebrities. Intuition, a trend-setting Web boutique known to cater to celebrities, is the sole outlet for Lucky Pix, giving the boys the kind of publicity and panache other retailers covet.
Googling Anti-Semitism
Online searchers punching the word "Jew" into the Google search engine may be surprised at the results they get.
Get Untangled From Web of Bad Dates
Evan Marc Katz has never had a bad Internet date.
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