Jews On The Internet

Larry Kuperman

Join Date 04/2001

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Jews On The Internet

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The question of how many Jews there are begs the definition of "What is a Jew?" and also "Who is a Jew?" Questions that have been asked many a time.....mostly by other Jews. Being a Secular Jew myself, I like the most liberal, inclusive definition that includes....well ME. The biggest number that you will see is about 18 million Jews. This works out to something like 1/4 of one per cent of the world's population. So you would expect that our impact on the Internet would be proportional to our numbers.

Not so, bubbala. (A term of endearment, darling. Can you feel me virtually pinching your cheek? In a nice way.) The impact of Jews far outweighs their numbers. Lets look at "Who's A Yid?"

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google. Larry Page's mom, Gloria Page, is Jewish. Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia, to Jewish parents, Michael and Eugenia, who fled to America for religious freedom.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, while he was a student at Harvard University. It was originally going to be limited to Harvard students, but expanded quickly. Zuckerberg saw the potential in the site and sought capital. He turned to Peter Thiel, a co-founder of Paypal and, not-so-coincidentally, also Jewish. Facebook is often rumored to be up for sale. How much is Facebook worth? Let me refer that to Mr. Thiel: "Facebook's internal valuation is around $8 billion based on their projected revenues of $1 billion by 2015." Founder Mark Zuckerberg is 23, or as we like to say, 10 years past his Bar Mitzvah.

Robert Kevin Rose is, comparatively, an old man at age 30. He is best known for founding Digg.com. Robert lost his job during the burst of the Dot Com bubble, ended up working as a production assistant on the show The Screen Savers He began appearing on air and stepped in as host after Leo Laporte left TechTV. On November 1, 2004, he started a site that combined social bookmarking, blogging, RSS into arguably the premier tech news site. Today Digg is rated among the 100 most popular sites on the web.

Scott Blum has been referred to as the "Sam Walton of e-commerce." Leaving a successful career as a shoe salesman as a youth, he founded Microbanks, a company that sold add-on memory modules for Macintosh computers. Before his 21st birthday, he sold Microbanks to Sentron Technology in San Diego for $2.5 million in cash. He would then co-found Pinnacle Micro with his father. Leaving there under a cloud of dubious accounting practices (he paid no penalty and admitted no guilt) he would go on to found Buy.com. He left before went public, returned to take it back private and it is now his baby.

RealNetworks is not the most beloved company in the world, nor is Real Player a favorite product. But there is no question that CEO and Founder Rob Glaser has been influential. When he founded Real Networks in 1994, at age 31, he was already a millionaire from his days at Microsoft. He has had a major impact on the Internet.

Certainly also worth mentioning are Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, whose mother is Jewish; Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, who was born on the Lower East Side of New York to a Jewish mother and raised by his great-aunt and great-uncle in Chicago; and Phillipe Kahn, founder of Borland.

What would the Internet be like with Google, PayPal, Facebook, Digg.com, Buy.com? It would be very, very different.

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why has this been written? do jews think they are special? what a crock.....

Larry thinks they are EXTRA special, and by association, so is he...ahem.

Jafo, I had no idea this was cross posted to other forums/sites, so my bad on that surely. I only come to this site for skins, stardock stuff, so I found it out of place, obviously. If you say it isn't, no problemo.

I still think it's self-serving, bigoted drivel though.

*jews are just dreamers..........no wonder they get a hard time!

'Jewish culture just happens to be among the best cultures'............oh please! heard it all now! talk about biggin up yourself! what a load of bo**ocks, hehehe!

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That would be why I believe his post was prideful, and this self-serving.

I did not interpret the above article as smug (though it's always good to have some pride!) or self-serving. I did not see how the thread by Kuperman could have been seen as so offensive as to warrant outcry from anyone.

I do believe the Jewish culture has 'disproportionately' provided many successful entrepreneurs, entertainers, attorneys, accountants, and good citizens. I think that can be reflected by the numbers of the Jewish minority leading happy and productive lives.

So far, however, I've only met one Jew ever in real life - and he's not kosher, but he is a great guy.

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We're ALL missing the point...

What we REALLY need is more Jewish WOMEN on the Internet.

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I am Jewish and Norwegian. I am new to this site but I get the point of it so I'm not gonna go to far. . .

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Yes my great grandparents came from Norway from my father. From my mother we have some ancestry that was Jewish.

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Here is a picture of ME when I was little. Just browsed it on a article.

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Damn!

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I guess it was the wrong URL. . .

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Hello. I am new to this site. Just joined. I have an Ancestor who was a Hungarian Jew. And yes we should all believe and be proud of our Heritage. God bless David.

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Being 3/4 eg 75% Jewish ; I am in a quandry of exactly how much of a Jew I count for on the internet and elsewhere.
This is a matter of great concern to me as I like to be mathematically precise. I should also like to know is there a seperate tally somewhere for 3/4 Jews like me and how can I get on it. Thank you for your time

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You can always tell who has nothing to do.

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Philly0381

Join Date 11/2004

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Yes, but you can't tell tell them much!

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More: RACISM/RACIST i'm sorry but it's dumb to talk about race about humans
English a nationality, Black white yellow a color of skin, christian jew a religion. and all of that it's HUMAN and there are only one RACE: HUMAN
At least you can talk about species in talking about different humans but not Race.
So pretend to be racist is dumb you can maybe pretend to be "specist"

Actually, and I don't want to get in a fight, the order is: Kingdom, Philum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. So saying that it is the "human race" is actually the inaccurate one. Race does refer to nationality/color of skin.

"The Jews have all the money and the whites have all the power, and I stuck in a taxi cab with driver who no shower!"
-Avenue Q

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Well Larry, if you want to look at it that way, what about the impact that people hailing from China and Japan have had on technology in general?

I ask the same question posted earlier....so what? I have several Jewish friends who are highly intelligent and do quite well for themselves, but I have yet to hear any of them spouting off about "superiority".

Race, heritage, creed, color, etc. has no bearing whatsoever on what a person does with their life.

Oh, and by the way, I know just as many highly-motivated and intelligent people who are NOT Jewish as I do people who are......

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Can someone please stop this thread? I am Jewish and find this whole thing very upsetting. I thought this site was about skinning. How does this topic have anything to do with skinning? What role does religion play in this? America is obsessed with religion/lack of religion/who believes what. Can't we end this public airing of private values? What is this thread accomplishing, Mr. Kuperman? Why on earth did you start this? Of what interest is all this? Next time stop at a traffic accident and take photos so we can all vicariously enjoy the pain!

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What is this thread accomplishing, Mr. Kuperman? Why on earth did you start this? Of what interest is all this? Next time stop at a traffic accident and take photos so we can all vicariously enjoy the pain!

Oddly enough, this thread began on his own personal blog site at JoeUser, but due to the Stardock suite of sites, it's been ported to WinCustomize, too. I'm sure it wasn't his intention to offend you, or anything like that - it's just his own opinion from his own blog.

Can't go hating on him for that too much.

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"I'm a Frisbetarian. We beleive that when you die your soul gets stuck on the roof and you can't get it down."

Jim Stafford

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DrJBHL

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Can't go hating on him for that too much.

I don't hate him at all. I am upset that this is here. It has no business being here. Can't we speak about skinning? I thought that was the purpose of this site. Now I'm stuck on the roof, and at best I'm a Reform Frisbitarian.

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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Dr J0622 a couple of the messageboard sections are crossposted across several Stardock sites. If a subject is not to your liking, then you should not take part. People on the other sites could equally argue your post has no business being here

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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Nice to have old threads resurrected.

BTW, all this race, religion, blah blah, should be put into perspective, but, you humans are all the same...

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DrJBHL

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My objections have to do with the Antisemitism revealed in some of the comments and the appearance of religion where it doesn't belong. "If I don't like it I shouldn't take part?" Absurd, Fuzzy Logic. I don't like Antisemitism. I don't like bigotry and hatred of any sort. I served in the Israel Defense Forces. I fought in a war there and I've earned the right to protest "pro" and "anti"semitism. My protest has everybusiness being here. "Here" is America. The First Amendment ensures my right to do so. I have not espoused a viewpoint insulting to anyone. Mr. Kuperman has. Again, I ask why a blog such as his appears where it has no point being?

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Fuzzy Logic

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"Here" is America. The First Amendment ensures my right to do so

These are private sites, so, in reality, you have no rights at all... People have a license to discuss in their private blogs any subject they wish. It is then up to the reader to choose whether they wish to read or to move on.

'Here', as far as I'm concerned, is not America. I haven't a clue what your First Amendment is, nor do I wish to know. Typical American arrogance

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Dr J0622 - when did you serve in the IDF? I did some "stuff" with the IDF not too long ago?

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DrJBHL

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I served 1969-1970 Airborne Infantry, and after Medical School 1977-1980 Navy Medical Branch.

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DrJBHL

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You don't know what the First Amendment to the Constitution is? Try Googling it. As I wrote before: Time to close this thread.

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