Knowing Facebook’s interesting past with allowing cartoons of Mohammad being posted for “Draw Mohammad Day”, we never thought Facebook would be on the Saudis “like” list. Living in a Western society, having a social networking site blocked for exhibiting western thought is mind boggling and a violation of freedom of speech. But according to a [...]
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Yoela Palkin | November 19, 2010 | Posted in
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Oh California, how could you fail to pass an initiative legalizing marijuana? Only every third person in our beautiful state calls himself a “stoner”. What happened? Did Californians finally realize that caring about our surroundings might actually be important? Living in a very “pro-marijuana” county, I was certain that Proposition 19 would pass. Every morning I [...]
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Yoela Palkin | November 4, 2010 | Posted in
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Is Facebook taking away from our sense of reality?
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Yoela Palkin | October 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Who really is Mark Zuckerberg? We all know him as the 26 year old billionaire who co-founded Facebook with a bunch of his college buddies before he dropped out of Harvard. But have you ever wondered where Zuckerberg stands politically? Zuckerberg, originally from White Plains, New York was born to Jewish parents who invested a lot of [...]
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Yoela Palkin | September 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Facebook has recently become the “king” of social networking sites after its expansion in the last few years has brought millions of new people with all various opinions. Facebook even has a new group called “Jewish pickup lines” which has been quite popular in attracting fellow Jews with jokes about our culture and religion. Some [...]
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Yoela Palkin | September 7, 2010 | Posted in
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