If you did an online search yesterday, chances are you saw Google’s homepage decorated with an animated cake, candles and other images celebrating the company’s 13th birthday. Given the search engine’s Jewish parentage, it makes sense that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg used the occasion to congratulate the site on a major religious milestone,…
Extra! Extra! Houdini has done it again: he’s managed yet another fabulous trick. But this is the Big One, the one in which he comes back from the dead. Just look around: Google has adopted him for its logo; he’s on novels, Broadway shows, museums exhibits, movies, biographies, playing cards, computer games… Not bad for…
Accessing Yad Vashem’s massive store of photos and documents is about to get as easy as typing into a search bar. According to a report in The New York Times this week, the Jerusalem-based “keeper of the world’s largest Holocaust archive” is expanding a partnership with Google to digitize about 130,000 photographs — and give…
J.D. Salinger was a fan of Burger King, according to letters by the deceased author released today. Forward contributor Sarah Wildman writes in Slate about the “Hitler and the Germans” exhibit at the German Historical Museum in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Google has partnered with Yad Vashem to provide access to the museum’s…
People ask for Divine guidance on life decisions and matters of the heart, so why not on more mundane questions like: What is the capital of Azerbaijan? With its new search engine, dubbed “Ya Haq” (that’s “Oh Lord” in Persian), Iran is seeking to take on Google and allow its people a non-Western (read: non-evil)…
An independent Israeli documentary that takes a close look at an Israeli firm outsourcing on a global scale every aspect of baby-making has been picked up by HBO and will air in prime time on June 16, according to this article in Haaretz. From Israeli television director and producer Zippi Brand Frank, “Google Baby” takes…
The Sisterhood Digest: • For all of you with two Jewish mothers — or two mothers, period — consider yourself lucky: A new study [shows][1] that children raised by lesbian mothers have fewer behavioral problems than their peers. • An Egyptian court has ruled that men who marry Jewish Israeli women — and children born of those unions…
Tamar Fox over at My Jewish Learning discovered the new Search Story tool at YouTube that allows you to easily mimic Google’s renowned “Parisian Love Story commercial.” She saw the potential in this right away, and put together two videos, one about the history of the state of Israel and one about Jewish lifecycle events….
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