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The title of Jon Stewart’s new show might have had a double-meaning for almost anyone else. “The Problem with Jon Stewart” sounds like the beginning of a rant by your conservative uncle, or maybe a gripe from a pedantic comedy critic. In its current usage, there is little publicly problematic about the diminutive host, beloved…
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Recipes Sweet Challah Rolls with Apple Currant Filling
Dairy-free, Nut-free, Pareve Prep Time: 40 minutes/ Inactive Time: 30 minutes/ Cook Time: 27 minutes Challah rolls filled with apples and currants are the ideal sweet baked good for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. I originally developed this recipe for a High Holidays cooking class, but these little gems are perfect all year round….
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Food Jewish cooking with kids: Apple Honey Muffins
When I think about cooking and baking, I think about the garden, the orchard and the fields, as much as I think about any particular holiday. We celebrate and eat with the seasons. No matter what, the world keeps spinning, the sun keeps rising and summer turns to fall. As the cooking teacher at Congregation…
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Fast Forward Did Apple Use Her Voice For Hebrew Siri?
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The woman behind the female Hebrew voice of the Waze navigation app is suing Apple for using her voice as the Hebrew Siri. Israeli radio broadcaster Galit Gura-Eini filed a lawsuit last week for about $66,000 in Tel Aviv District Court, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported. The lawsuit alleges that Apple…
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The Schmooze The Bagel Emoji Was Bad. Apple Heard Your Complaints Loud And Schmear.
Power to the people. Sing it across the nation: faced with public hysteria, Apple has fixed the bagel emoji. Baruch Hashem. When the Unicode Consortium, the enigmatic organization of engineers that universalizes emojis, first debuted plans for the bagel emoji in February, the American public burst spontaneously into uproar — not least of all those…
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Fast Forward Apple and Facebook Pull Alex Jones’ Conspiracy-Laded Content
Two major media brands removed content by radio and internet host Alex Jones, a notorious conspiracy theorist. Apple pulled the majority of Jones’ Infowars work from iTunes and its podcast apps, and Facebook deleted four of his pages, the Daily Beast reported Monday. Apple said it took down the entire library for five of his…
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The Schmooze Meet HQ Trivia’s Fiercest Competitor: MajorityRules
Imagine if there was a free program that predicted correct answers on the popular gameshow app HQ Trivia with near-perfect accuracy, helping countless people cheat the system and win cash? For a while, there was. When Jonathan Nassimi and Jake Mor created HQuack, they created a phenomenon within a phenomenon. Nassimi and Mor’s site “predicted…
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