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Revising Dreyfus Edited by Maya Balakirsky Katz Brill, 438 pages, $209 The public trial for treason of French Jewish captain Alfred Dreyfus has proven fodder for everything from anti-Semitic walking cane handles to a riot-inducing 1931 play and another play in 1974, which the New York Times panned as a flop. Roman Polanski is reportedly…
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled on Tuesday a feature to help its billion-plus users search for people and places within the social network, in the company’s first major product launch event since its May initial public offering. Speaking to reporters at its Menlo Park, California headquarters, Zuckerberg described what he called “graph search,” which…
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,”…
We all know that Israelis spend more time than the rest of us on certain things, like defending their country, starting cool hi-tech start-ups, and eating really good hummus. What we might not have guessed is that they also spend more time on social networking websites than we do. According to a global survey conducted…
Golden Globe nominations are in and “The King’s Speech,” written by Jewish screenwriter David Seidler, did not go unrecognized. Haaretz reports that the movie, which is inspired by Seidler’s family ties to the Holocaust and the silence that surrounded the tragedy, snagged seven nominations. He’s not the only Jew worthy of a mazel tov. “The…
Jew Crew, Bangitout, JDate. Now, add Tribe of Angels to the list of Jewish social networking websites. An online forum where Jewish investors “can share their interests and expertise with entrepreneurs and vice versa,” Tribe of Angels is the brainchild of Cleveland-based technology consultant Paul Allen, who launched the site in 2004. The site doesn’t…
