admin | September 13, 2020
A coordinated public pressure campaign is attempting to induce Facebook to adopt the controversial definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and to use it to police content published on its platform. On August 7, 128 organizations sent an open letter to Facebooks Board of Directors, calling on them to fully adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and to implement a hate speech policy on antisemitism with that definition at its core. The full IHRA working definition of antisemitism provides Facebook an effective, neutral, and nuanced tool to protect Jewish users from hate speech and imagery that incites hate and oftentimes leads to violence, write the organizations.
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admin | September 13, 2020
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,October 2020, pp. 16-17, 28 THE DISILLUSIONMENT with Israel of American Jews, and some Israelis, is becoming increasingly clear.
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admin | September 13, 2020
Online conference focuses on social media, which is used to spread bigotry but can also be enlisted to fight it Four generations after the Holocaust, members of Generation Z are coming of age at a time of increasing anti-Semitism and are vulnerable to online influence, according to speakers taking part in a virtual conference called Shaping Future Discourse about Racism, Anti-Semitism & Hate Speech.
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admin | September 13, 2020
Issued on: 13/09/2020 - 17:26Modified: 13/09/2020 - 17:31 The majority of French young people aged 15-24 have learned the history of the Holocaust at school, according to a poll published on Sunday. But the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) regrets that these lessons are not available in one in ten classrooms. Some 87 percentof the young people questioned said they had already heard about the Holocaust, 95 percentof them had heard about the gas chambers and for 80 percentof them, they had learned about this at school, according to a pollconducted by Ifop for the UEJF and French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, published on Sunday
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admin | September 13, 2020
By mid-July, within days of the latest flareup in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a flurry of articles written by Azerbaijani think tank members appeared on Modern Diplomacy (MD). Azerbaijani think tanks may have erroneously assumed that MD was a media battlefield between Armenians and Azerbaijanis after a Geopolitical Handbook on Armenian issues was published a month earlier
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admin | September 13, 2020
The Israel Democracy Institute published a recent survey on Sunday that examines the extent to which the coronavirus pandemic has hindered the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) communitys trust in the haredi political parties.
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admin | September 13, 2020
Seventeen years ago a number of courageous individuals, with the help of US military personnel, entered the flooded basement Saddam Hussein's secret police headquarters in Baghdad and found a miracle: nearly 20,000 personal and religious artifacts confiscated from Iraq's Jewish community, some dating back to the 1600s. The Iraqi government had begun stripping Iraqi Jews of their property in 1952, leading the former owners to believe their treasures had been lost forever. Among the finds: handwritten notes by one of the leading Rabbinical scholars of the early 20th century, the Ben Ish Hai, and the records from the last Jewish school in Iraq, the Frank Iny School.
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admin | September 13, 2020
The Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are nearing, and Jews across North America and in the Five Towns who want to pray together will either attend synagogues, albeit in a unique environment, or use technology to connect spiritually. Because of the continuing coronavirus pandemic, returning to a synagogue now requires extra precautions, so many shuls will use virtual platforms to celebrate the holidays, as they have for other services
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admin | September 13, 2020
George Harrison; Philip Glass; John Coltrane; Andre Previn: the list of musicians influenced by Ravi Shankar is as diverse as it is distinguished.
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admin | September 13, 2020
Rising fears about a second wave of coronavirus cases in New York Citys Orthodox communities appear to be coming to pass, with the proportion of tests turning up cases of the disease more than four times the citywide rate in one heavily Orthodox neighborhood in newly released data from late August.Meanwhile, rising cases in New Jersey, Baltimore and other areas with large Orthodox populations represent a threat to in-person instruction at local Jewish schools, many of which reopened last week, as well as plans for in-person services for the High Holidays. And even as many Orthodox leaders are exhorting community members to follow public health recommendations to wear masks and avoid large gatherings, others say they intend to flout rules designed to stop the spread of the disease. In a video taken at a wedding Sunday where unmasked guests appeared in the background, Borough Park activist and radio host Heshy Tischler vowed to attend a wedding every night no matter what restrictions Gov.
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