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Culture Why Social Media Can Be Good
As the mother of three boys, I appreciate the irony in suggesting that my kids could possibly benefit from having their eyes permanently locked onto screens and their thumbs flashing furiously across tiny keyboards. “Screens off” is a shout heard often in our house (shouted by me, of course). But social media aren’t all bad….
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News Facebook Takes Down Some Hezbollah Content
Facebook, citing a policy against hosting content that “incites hate,” has removed some Hezbollah-related content. Although some Facebook pages in praise of Hezbollah could be accessed on Friday, a page on its radio statio, Al-Manar, displayed only text about the station and no commentary or reports. “To help keep our site safe, we use the…
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News Driving Hezbollah Off Social Media
A campaign to drive designated terror organizations off social media platforms is proving effective on some fronts in preventing Hezbollah from reaching out to members and supporters through the Web. Several key social media sites, including Facebook, agreed recently to delete accounts and applications belonging to the Lebanon-based group and its TV station, Al-Manar, which…
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News Collapsed Ceilings Lead to Big Mitzvah
Two collapsed ceilings led to one big mitzvah for a Brooklyn synagogue and a neighboring church. After its roof collapsed in 2009, Congregation Beth Elohim, located in Park Slope, temporarily moved its services to the Old First Reformed Church, down the block. Two years later, Rabbi Andy Bachman was nearly struck by chunks of plaster…
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News When Hate Speech Hits Social Media
Ask Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center how he grades Twitter’s efforts to combat anti-Semitic hate speech, and Cooper, the group’s associate dean, won’t even give Twitter an F. “They haven’t even shown up to the dance yet,” said Cooper, who directs the center’s anti-hate speech efforts. Facebook, on the other hand, has recently…
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Opinion What Says the Cynical Palestinian?
A new Israeli social media meme caught my eye yesterday. Although it was in Hebrew, I felt as though I had seen a version of it in English at some point. It reminded me of the “Unimpressed Native American” meme. You, too, may have come across this meme in your Facebook feed recently. It’s the…
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Opinion Israelis Heart Iranians, and Vice Versa
If you weren’t on Facebook this weekend, then you probably missed a huge love fest going on between Israelis and Iranians. As would be expected, the governments of the two countries were not proclaiming their undying devotion to one another. Rather, it was ordinary Israeli and Iranian citizens who were expressing mutual admiration and a…
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Life Weiner’s Jewish Problem
Rep. Anthony Weiner reportedly used a sexual stereotype about Jewish women in Facebook sexting with a young Jewish woman, according to this account on Radar Online. This pathetic story just keeps getting more appalling. Weiner, a 46-year-old Jewish congressman who represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens and was considered the leading candidate in New York’s…
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