Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, for the first time publicly the depth of her grief following the death of her husband — at a commencement speech at the University of California, Berkeley. Dave Goldberg, the 47-year-old CEO of Survey Monkey, died suddenly in May 2015 after sustaining a head trauma when he fell off…
On Mother’s Day, Sheryl Sandberg used her Facebook page to apologize to single mothers. By her own second Mother’s Day as a single parent, Sandberg realized she’d shortchanged other single mothers in “Lean In,” her her manifesto urging women to embrace opportunity at work, by not recognizing how hard it can be to do that…
Facebook Inc’s No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, paid a Mother’s Day tribute to single moms, acknowledging she never fully understood the difficulty of raising children without a spouse or partner until her husband died last year. “I did not really get how hard it is to succeed at work when you are overwhelmed at home,”…
BERLIN – Facebook began a Europe-wide campaign on Monday to thwart extremist posts on social media, after German politicians in particular raised concerns about a rise in xenophobic comments linked to an influx of refugees. The “Initiative for Civil Courage Online” was announced in Berlin and the company is pledging over a million dollars to…
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has donated 290,000 shares of company stock, worth about $31 million, to several different charities. The majority of the money will go to women’s empowerment groups and Lean In, Sandberg’s nonprofit supporting women in the workplace, according to CNBC, citing an unnamed source familiar with Sandberg’s plans. The donations…
Sheryl Sandberg ended the with another prolific post on Facebook — this time, about her New Year’s resolution. With over 29,000 likes since it was published on January 4, the post clearly struck a chord with her followers. And if you dissect the post’s message, it’s easy to see why. While Sandberg focused on a specific…
It’s been a big year for Jewish women. Comic Amy Schumer catapulted to super stardom with “Trainwreck,” and drew our attention to the way women are treated in Hollywood; Tamar Epstein, whose fight to receive a religious divorce from her husband Aharon Friedman made national headlines, remarried despite never receiving a get; and Emma Sulkowicz…
When the rabbis, priests, imams and mystics created religious rules and customs surrounding loss and mourning, they did so with varying approaches to respecting the dead and creating the structures for mourners to reconnect to local community. But they never saw the Internet coming. Beyond the religious texts and self-help books, the Internet has vastly…
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