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Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss

JUST as he hoped to clean up his image, Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of Facebook, is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film as a ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac. The website and its 400m users have been beset in the past week by rows over changes to its privacy settings. However, they have nothing on the invasion of privacy ...

Mourning Noah Pozner, the Jewish Boy Whose Life Was Taken too Soon

Six days after the funeral of six-year-old Noah Pozner, his family is taking stock of the gifts sent to them by strangers all over the world. There’s a stiff teddy bear in a brown overcoat and hat accompanied by a note from a woman who says the bear gave her great comfort when her mother passed away. There is a ...

Mourning for Pets, the ‘Jewish’ Way?

As I peer down at her cotton-puff head, my sense of guilt sets in. Peeps, my bichon frise associate, has just taken a cocktail of three different medicines meant to keep her ticker ticking. Her eyes water, and her mouth turns downward, quivering slightly. It’s obvious she is not digging this new regimen. At 13, this lady has lived long ...

‘Mountain Jews’ Celebrate Historic Simchat Torah

For the first time ever, the community of Mountain Jews of Baku celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah in their new synagogue.Dozens of community members filled the synagogue’s sanctuary to take part in the reading of the last portion of the Torah from the book of Deuteronomy as well as the first portion of the Torah from the book of ...

Mother worries even though son escaped quake unhurt

When Orna Barashi from Jerusalem heard on the news that an earthquake had hit the city of Christchurch and that its Chabad House had been destroyed, she feared the worst.“My son had sent me an e-mail two days before telling me he had just arrived in Christchurch and that he was staying at the Chabad House until he found somewhere ...

‘Most Israeli Jews in favor of haredim living separately’

The place of haredim in Israeli society is a topic hotly debated in the public, Knesset and courts, recently all the more so with the cabinet decisions aimed at eventually weaning kollel students from state allowances and raising the numbers of haredim serving in the military or civil services, which the government hopes will increase ultra-Orthodox employment rates.But what of ...

Most Israeli Jews back Romney, most Israeli Arabs support Obama

The October 2012 results of the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University’s monthly Peace Index reveal that a clear majority of Jewish Israelis prefer Republican candidate Governor Mitt Romney (57 percent) over incumbent President Barack Obama (22 percent).The poll – carried out between October 22 and 24, and conducted among a representative sample of 601 respondents with a margin ...

Mosque Developer Rejects Moving to New Location

The developer of an Islamic cultural center that would include a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero appear to have rejected Gov. David Paterson’s offer to help them find a different site but a meeting may still be in the works.On Tuesday, Rep. Peter King said he learned the governor planned to speak with the imam and developers of the mosque and cultural ...

Moroccan taxi dispatcher denies part in plot to attack New York synagogues

One of the terror suspects arrested for allegedly planning to attack New York synagogues dressed as a Hasidic Jew has pleaded his innocence in a tearful interview.20-year-old Mohamed Mamdouh, who was caught on Tuesday in a dramatic police sting operation, said he ‘had nothing to do with’ the synagogue slaughter plot.Speaking from prison on Rikers Island, the taxi dispatcher blamed ...

Moroccan Film Seeks Out Jews Who Left for Israel

Hundreds of members of Islamist and left wing political groups demonstrated outside the Tangiers Film Festival earlier this month against a documentary about Moroccan Jews living in Israel. They claimed that director Kamal Hachkar was promoting “normalization” with the Jewish state.But Hachkar was not expelled from the artists’ union, nor was his film banned, and he wasn’t ostracized from Morocco’s ...

Mormons Baptize Holocaust Victim Anne Frank Posthumously, Says Report

Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank, a German-born Jew who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was allegedly baptized posthumously by Mormons on Saturday, the Huffington Post reported Tuesday.According to the report, the baptism was conducted using a proxy, by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Dominican Republic.Whistle blower Helen Radkey, a former member of ...

More than 60,000 Call for Pollard’s Freedom

More than 60,000 people have signed a letter calling on President Shimon Peres to do whatever he can to free Jonathan Pollard. The campaign for Pollard’s freedom has taken on new energy as the date on which Peres will be given the Medal of Freedom approaches.Members of Knesset, Canadian rabbis and Gilad Shalit are among those who have called on ...