Facebook removed pages for Hezbollah, its affiliated Al-Manar television station and its leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. It is the second time that the social networking site has removed pages for the Lebanon-based Hezbollah; the first time was in August, but the group created new pages. The Middle East Media Research Institute had reported on the…
This post is the eighth in “Feminist, Orthodox and Engaged,” a series by Simi Lampert on love, sex and betrothal in the life of a Modern Orthodox woman. I got a text the other day from a friend: “Try not to become one of those mundane married people like everyone else.” He and I had…
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is proud to be a 1 billion user man. After the social network hit the 10-digit mark for users, Zuckerberg said he was “humbled” by the power of connecting poeople. “Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life,”…
The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Facebook page was inundated with hundreds of explicitly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages. The attacks earlier this month were confirmed by the Jewish Agency on Thursday. The messages were deleted soon after they were discovered, according to the Jewish Agency. The attack of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages coincided with the anniversary…
Photographs uploaded by an Israeli Facebook user on Friday caused a furor, as users responded to the photo album, which included a caption connoting African migrants as “animals.” The photographs, which featured African migrants in south Tel Aviv’s Levinsky Park, were uploaded by the woman to an album entitled, “Night tour in the south Tel…
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg admits to being disappointed about his company’s crumbling share price, but argued that Wall Street did not yet grasp the full long-term potential of its slow-growing mobile business. The 28-year-old co-founder looked confident in his first public appearance since the company’s rocky initial public offering in May, followed by…
The tragic ordeal of Ayala Pamela Weisfeld – the 40-year-old immigrant mother of two from New Jersey who died this week in Jerusalem following a public five-week bout with cancer – unfolded on a Facebook page in real time and in riveting detail, with twists and turns that veered from hope to nail-biting angst to…
Israelis are nothing if not practical. So maybe it’s no surprise that an Israeli startup’s behind a new app that sends private messages to one’s dearly beloved after death — or that the Facebook app’s creators are offering a chance at worldwide fame to the (un)lucky participant who dies first. According to social media digest…
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