As a rule, I’m not the rallying type.\n\nI didn’t even go to a single homecoming in high school or college. Wherever I see crowds of people, I see black-and-white pictures of cross burnings, Klan rallies and the Nuremberg parade grounds. Call me paranoid, but history shows that, most of the time, little good comes from too many like-minded people standing around.
Jesse Eisenberg was practically born to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the prickly antihero of “The Social Network.”
The increasing ubiquity of social media raises the question: How should Jews behave online? Conversations with rabbis, educators and even one lawyer, as well as with a number of Jewish Web innovators led to the following guidelines.
One question I’m often asked is, “How do you come up with different stuff every week? Don’t you ever run out of material?” In response, I usually just shrug and make a slight grimace, as if to say, “Yeah, it ain’t easy.” But the truth is, my problem is the exact opposite: I usually have too many stories to choose from. For every one you see, I have to pass on several others — often really good ones. This is the curse and delight of covering the Jewish world: There are too many stories!
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