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The Schmooze EarthDay Wisdom From The Stars
Celebrities being the arbiters of good taste when it comes to good deeds and causes, they were out in hordes on the Twitter-sphere to remind us to reduce, recycle, and be better people on this 43rd annual Earth Day. #Earthday! Go plant a tree! clean up after yourself! Love the place u live in and…
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Breaking News Fresh Twitter Suit Filed Over Anti-Semitic #GoodJew Hashtag
A French Jewish group which last month sued Twitter for hosting anti-Semitic content has lodged a fresh complaint against the company and accused it of lying. The latest complaint by the Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF, was filed on April 12 with the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office against Twitter President and Director…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism and Anonymity on Twitter
“Anonymous” is a pretty apt name for the motley crew of anarchist hackers who like to disable and deface the websites of groups or people “they” don’t like. We can’t interrogate their motives. Only their work offers clues, sometimes quite unambiguous ones. When Anonymous recently tried to take down the website for Yad Vashem —…
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Breaking News Lawmaker Steve Cohen Claims He ‘Punked’ Media on Flirty Tweets to Cyndi Lauper
Jewish Rep. Steve Cohen says he was playing a joke on reporters by Tweeting — then quickly deleting — a flirty message to singer Cyndi Lauper. Cohen, a Memphis Democrat, said he knew the Tweet, in which he thanked the ’90s star for “what a night,” would get attention because of a similar incident during…
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The Schmooze Don’t Diss Amanda Bynes, She Might Sue You
Fast on her way to becoming a kind of Jewish Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes has attracted her fair share of attention lately with some pretty odd tweets. Her latest one threatens to sue all the tabloids, blogs, magazines and news sources that have criticized her: I’m suing every blog, every magazine, every news source that’s…
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The Schmooze Twitter Mourns Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert, America’s most famous film critic, died yesterday at the age of 70. Every celebrity he had ever lauded with praise or declared inapt — cough Rob Schneider —rushed to give his life a thumbs up. Ebert, an avid tweeter himself, would have been proud. Saddened to hear of the passing of Roger Ebert….
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The Schmooze Pesach in 140 Characters
Now that you’ve somehow managed to digest all that Seder matzo, it’s time to re-live it all through the eyes of the rich and famous. Some were early: With Passover about to start abroad I want to wish all of you celebrating a happy and healthy Pesach! ampmdash; William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) March 24, 2013 Signing…
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Life 7 Jewish Women To Follow on Twitter
Happy 7th birthday, Twitter! If the social media network were a student in a Yeshiva day school, right about now would be the moment its mother brought in a tray of donuts for the rest of its social media classmates to share. And so, in honor of Twitter’s 7th birthday (only 5 years till its…
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