Students struggling to master academic subjects no longer have to poke their hands in the air, stay after class, or hire an expensive tutor. Instead, they can go online.
A crop of e-tutoring services has sprung up in recent years, offering inexpensive online alternatives to in-person educational tutoring. Most of these sites cater to parents, who […]

More than 35,000 people have joined the Facebook group “Israel is not a country! … Delist it from Facebook as a country!”Type “Jew” into the search function on YouTube, and you’ll discover a host of anti-Semitic videos, including “911 Jew Spy Scandal 3” and a video clip in which National Polish Party’s Leszek Bubel declares […]

“But what do you plan on doing with it?” That’s the typical question asked of those opting for a college major in English, history or some other liberal arts field. “Why can’t you study something more practical?” usually follows — “practical” being the code word for money-making. Next up: “How about finance, medicine, accounting or […]

When Warren Buffett plunked down $4 billion for an 80 percent stake in Israeli-based Iscar Metalworking in 2006, his first-ever foreign acquisition sent an unmistakable message that Israel’s industry is a good bet for foreign investors. Today, though Israel’s economy suffers from a growing income gap between rich and poor, foreign investment is up and […]

The yentas who check OnlySimchas.com on an hourly basis may want to bookmark a new Web site: Till120.com. Launched in mid-October, Till120.com is a different sort of lifecycles Web site — it lists the latest passings in the Jewish community worldwide, along with funeral and shiva information. Users can enter their ZIP code and sign […]