admin | July 25, 2020
Customary as it is to have lectures about Tisha Beav during the nine-day period leading up to the day of mourning that commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples, plus special events with moral messages on the actual day, Zoom has given rise to a boom in Tisha Beav lectures and conferences. Some organizations and institutions that never previously paid special attention to Tisha Beav, are getting on the Zoom bandwagon, and many people who were not particularly interested, but who have become Zoom addicted for want of other social outlets, are registering for Tisha Beav-oriented events.
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admin | July 25, 2020
Following its years-long effort to fight Holocaust denial on Facebook, the Anti-Defamation League has shifted gears from working with the tech giant in combating hate speech to helping lead a campaign to force change on the worlds largest social media platform. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign was launched in mid-June by a number of U.S.
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admin | July 25, 2020
Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as Black nationalist and a hate group, praises Adolf Hitler and compares Jews to termites. He has won accolades on social media from several high-profile celebrities for his rhetoric even though the Anti-Defamation League says that he is an antisemite.Described as the worlds oldest disease, antisemitism is increasing along with COVID-19
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admin | July 25, 2020
If RSAs attendees were even able to score an Airbnb, it was second to the tech companies whod, for years, packed employees into expensive rentals that once were on the normal-person market.
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admin | July 25, 2020
Leah: Ugh. Did you hear about the DeSean Jackson and Nick Cannon controversy
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admin | July 25, 2020
LONDON Jersey is one of Britains most unusual places an autonomous island closer to France than to mainland England, a tax haven for Londons superrich and the last remnant of the English crowns Norman domains. But Jersey is also home to a rare non-urban British Jewish community with a unique history forged in the face of the Nazi occupation during World War II the only German occupation of any UK territory. These days, though, the community, with a formal membership of only 49 and an average age of over 70, has had to negotiate the coronavirus crisis as its membership continues to shrink
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admin | July 25, 2020
BERLIN (JTA) Across the room sat a man, a murderer, who had tried to kill me and 51 others praying in the Halle Synagogue last Yom Kippur.
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admin | July 25, 2020
"The air over Jerusalem is saturated with prayers and dreams like the air over industrial cities," wrote Yehuda Amichai, one of the city's beloved poets, in 1980. "It's hard to breathe." Now it's hard to pray. In the historic walled Old City, the beating heart of a place sacred to millions around the world, a second wave of the coronavirus has challenged devout communities to rethink how to pray safely
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admin | July 25, 2020
(JTA) For the rabbis and cantor of Congregation Beth Shalom in Northbrook, Illinois, the to-do list to prepare for the unprecedented online-only High Holidays season was long.
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admin | July 25, 2020
Hasher Jallal Taheb has been sentenced for attempting an attack upon the White House. Taheb also planned attacks on the Statue of Liberty, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and a synagogue. Taheb painstakingly planned an attack on the White House that potentially jeopardized the lives of White House employees and visitors, said U.S.
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