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Google’s Eric Schmidt: You can trust us with your data

This week Google released an update to its Android mobile operating system. Known as FroYo, the new operating system makes Android mobile phones up to five times faster and makes it possible to use the phone as a wireless hotspot. The update, the seventh since Android launched in September 2008, comes just a week after Apple launched the iPhone 4.Read More: @ telegraph.co.ukReaders ...

Google Faces Lawsuit Over ‘Jewish’ Search Suggestions

French anti-discrimination organizations are suing Google for allegedly disseminating “unsolicited and systematic associations between famous people and their Jewishness” through Google’s auto-complete function, according to the Hollywood Reporter.Since 2008, Google has been attempting to anticipate what its users will type into the search engine with its “Suggest” feature, but lawyers for SOS Racisme say that by connecting famous personalities with an ...

‘Good Jew’ 3rd Most Popular in French Tweets

A French nonprofit said it was considering making complaints against some Twitter users following an explosion of French-language anti-Semitic messages, JTA learned Monday.SOS Racisme, a Paris-based anti-discrimination organization, made the statement on its website after the phrase UnBonJuif on October 10, became the third most popular hashtag among French Twitter users.Literally meaning “a good Jew,” it served thousands of Twitter ...

Godfather, the Hadrei Haredim version

In my line of work, I’ve learned that getting disappointed by people you trust is a matter of routine. And still, after the ugly explosion of the Hadrei Haredim extortion affair, I couldn’t help but feel deep sadness. The case, as complex and extensive as may be – is nothing more than a representation of an oh-so-familiar pattern.Haredi newspapers and radio ...

Global Jewish charity shares work with UK officials

British parliamentarians learned firsthand about the work of a new Jewish charity that facilitates Israeli humanitarian expertise and social innovation to provide sustainable solutions to crucial issues affecting vulnerable populations.At a reception in Parliament on Monday night, Tag International Development, a global organization that connects Israeli charities to partners in an array of countries to find sustainable solutions to a ...

Global Anti-Semitism Rises by 30 Percent

Last year the world saw a “considerable escalation in anti-Semitic manifestations, particularly violent acts against Jews,” constituting a 30-percent increase over 2011, according to a Tel Aviv University study released on Sunday.The report, published by the university’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, said the escalation followed two years of decline.There were 686 acts of violence and ...

Glenn Beck To Visit Auschwitz, Broadcast Special From Outside Town

Glenn Beck said Thursday that he will be visiting the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in a visit to Poland, and he’ll broadcast a special from a town outside of the camp because this will help him “figure out,” he says, “how did this happen?”“I’m going over to Poland in a couple of weeks on something that’s a venture that ...

Glasses Look to Keep ‘Immodest’ Women Out of Sight

It’s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don’t have to see women they consider to be immodestly dressed.In an effort to maintain their strictly devout lifestyle, the ultra-Orthodox have separated the sexes on buses, sidewalks and other public spaces in their neighborhoods. Their interpretation of ...

Give me children or give me death

M., 25, is about to die. The young haredi woman, who resides in an isolated community in Jerusalem, has been refusing to undergo an urgent hysterectomy to remove a tumor that has spread in her uterus because it will mean losing her ability to give birth.M. was diagnosed with endometrial cancer over a year ago. The doctors told the young ...

Girls’ school ‘backed by evil regime’

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox residents of Beit Shemesh staged a demonstration Tuesday evening outside a religious girls’ school in the city, in protest of the Education Ministry’s decision to open the school near haredi neighborhoods.Senior Beit Shemesh rabbis took part in the rally, in which participants called for “maintaining the purity of the haredi neighborhoods against strangers plotting to desecrate them, ...

Girls Celebrate Jewish Heroines

Bais Rebbe Junior High of L.A., California, held a mother and daughter brunch in Honor of Yud Alef Chesvan; the yartzeit of Rochel Imeinu. The girls prepared a special presentation of special woman throughout Jewish history.Beginning with Sara Imanu, up until the woman of today, the girls spoke about the unique qualities we can learn from each tzadeikes. Rochel Imanu, ...

Gingrich: Obama is ‘most radical president ever’

NEW ORLEANS – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a potential presidential candidate in 2012, called Barack Obama on Thursday “the most radical president in American history” who oversees a “secular, socialist machine.”Gingrich reminded conservative activists why he was one of the nation’s most polarizing leaders in the 1990s, opening the Southern Republican Leadership Conference with a biting assessment of Obama’s ...