Facebook, citing free speech, has rejected a request by Holocaust survivors to remove some pages that espouse Holocaust denial.
Kfir Damari, Yonatan Winetraub and Yariv Bash were in Los Angeles last week in an effort to raise $10 million for the construction of a robot that they hope to send to the moon.
At a glance, the Muslim-Jewish picnic at the peace fountain in Yitzhak Rabin Garden, in this city\’s Bercy Park, looks like a reunion of old friends.
The Jerusalem-based Answers.com fired about two-thirds of its staff two months after being acquired by a private company.
Apple Inc. removed the Arabic-language \”Thirdintifada\” application from its App Store following a request from the Israeli government.
Israel\’s government has asked Apple Inc. to remove an application called \”ThirdIntifada,\” which encourages uprising against Israel, from its App Store. Israel\’s Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein, made the request Tuesday in a letter sent to Apple founder and chief executive officer Steve Jobs.
When Noam Bardin demonstrated how Waze — a Twitter-infused GPS — got him from LAX to the Luxe Hotel on Sunset in 26 minutes during rush hour, several attendees at the third annual Israel Conference immediately took out their phones to download his app. “The closing of the 405 [in mid-July] is the best moment to look at this app and understand what it can do for you every day,” Waze CEO Bardin said.
A court in Buenos Aires has ordered Google to stop recommending anti-Semitic and racist websites to users. The injunction issued May 17 comes following a complaint filed by several Jewish organizations. The decision came on the World Day of the Internet.
Information gleaned from Father Patrick Desbois\’ years-long search for mass Jewish graves in Eastern Europe will be made available on a database. Desbois\’ organization, Yahad-In Unum, has joined with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Jewish Committee to set up an online database of his findings since 2004 of mass graves in more than 600 towns and villages in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and Poland.
