admin | April 22, 2020
Before 70 CE, Jerusalem was the physical and spiritual center of the Jewish commonwealth. After the Romans destroyed the Temple, Judaism emerged as something different: a religion and people without a temple, sacrifices or even a state. What happened between Before and After?
admin | April 22, 2020
New York's schools are adapting to meet the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, with millions of students now logging on for virtual lectures and remote learning. Unfortunately, reports indicate that students of most ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas are not following suit.
admin | April 22, 2020
By guest writer Gregory Eran Gronbacher Ive repeated this wry aphorism so many times and youve likely heard it, too Get three Jews together and youll have at least six opinions. The humor reflects something of the enduring nature of Judaism its an ongoing conversation. For the past few thousand years, Jews have been talking, writing, even arguing about the core aspects of our tradition, our values, and our practices.
admin | April 22, 2020
NEW YORK (JTA) More than half of American Jews have either witnessed or directly experienced anti-Semitism during the past five years, according to an Anti-Defamation League survey published Tuesday. The ADL also found that 63% of American Jews say they are less safe than they were a decade ago. The survey was conducted in January, just before the new coronavirus pandemic led to a shutdown of much of American public life, and after a fatal shooting at a Jersey City kosher supermarket and a fatal stabbing at a Hanukkah party, both in December, as well as a spate of attacks in Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn
admin | April 22, 2020
The JFCS Holocaust Center in San Francisco was hosting its first public online Zoom event, a lecture with a member of its survivors speakers bureau on April 13, when center director Morgan Blum Schneider became aware of something. About 15 minutes before the end of the program, we noticed a few people who were trying to come in, she said.
admin | April 22, 2020
As Americans are staying home to stem the spread of the coronavirus, online searches for white supremacist content have increased, according to a London-based company that uses technology to disrupt violent extremism. In states that have had local stay-at-home orders in place for 10 or more days, there has been a 21% average increase in engagement with violent extremist content, Moonshot CVE said in a report released last week.
admin | April 22, 2020
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admin | April 22, 2020
The Anti-Defamation League, which previously sought to outlaw the OK sign and Pepe the Frog, is now setting its sights on hate speech in video games. The gaming community can be toxic, but ADL-level censorship is not the answer.
admin | April 22, 2020
Embed from Getty Images On the 2nd of March 2020 I attended a lecture given by an apparently well-known media pundit and university lecturer at SOAS. The title was How to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race& Reality. If I had looked at the comments on Dr Adam Rutherfords Twitter feed I would have either stayed away or not have been disarmed
admin | April 22, 2020
(Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Did your Zoom meeting just get hijacked? Well, youll soon be able to report the incident directly to the company
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