Online anti-Semitism in Spain doubled in 2011, report says
Jewish Journal
July 5, 2012
Online anti-Semitism in Spain doubled in volume last year, according to a Spanish Jewish community monitor.
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internet
Rabbinical court fines man for being unfaithful on Facebook
Jewish Journal
May 29, 2012
A woman reportedly proved to an Israeli rabbinical court that her husband was unfaithful by showing it correspondence between him and other women on Facebook.
For haredi Orthodox, Internet threat harkens back to the Enlightenment
Jewish Journal
May 22, 2012
To the outside observer, the Charedi Orthodox anti-Internet rally at New York’s Citi Field may have looked uniform: a single mass of black hats, white shirts and brown beards.
Opinion: Teach children to be their own Internet filters
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2012
Tens of thousands of Jews filled Citi Field in Queens on Sunday and heard from haredi Orthodox leaders that the Internet should be avoided in the home at all costs and used sparingly at work, and then only with a filter blocking content that could be damaging spiritually.
Haredim fill N.Y. stadium to decry Internet’s dangers
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2012
The sellout crowd that filled the New York Mets’ Citi Field on Sunday night wore black and white, not the Mets’ blue and orange.
Haredim fill N.Y. baseball stadium to decry error of Internet’s ways
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2012
The sellout crowd that filled Citi Field on Sunday night wore black and white, not the New York Mets\’ blue and orange.
Orthodox rally for a more kosher Internet
Jewish Journal
May 14, 2012
An upcoming haredi Orthodox mega-rally in New York about the dangers posed by the Internet has a promotional Twitter account.
Survey discovers Israel’s digital divide
Jewish Journal
May 9, 2012
The higher one\’s income the more likely he will be connected to the Internet, a new survey of Israelis\’ Internet use has found.
Quit Facebook or risk expulsion, N.Y. Orthodox school orders students
Jewish Journal
March 28, 2012
An Orthodox Jewish girls\’ high school in Brooklyn has ordered its 11th-grade students to close their Facebook accounts and pay a fine.
The battle to get ‘Bully’ seen by those who need it most
Danielle Berrin
March 21, 2012
At Sioux City Middle School in Iowa, 12-year-old Alex Libby is the odd-man-out. Seen by his peers as different, he has golden hair, gentle eyes, a wide, flat nose and permanently puckered lips. Together, they might seem to express something both pouty and vulnerable, sweet and sad. Kids are not so kind. “People call me fish face,” he blankly tells the camera in the new documentary “Bully” by filmmaker Lee Hirsch. “I don’t mind.”
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