admin | April 26, 2020
Lori Gilbert-Kaye was an avid reader. The last book she bought was called A Time to Heal. It was on her nightstand at home when she was killed a year ago in the mass shooting at her synagogue, Chabad of Poway
admin | April 26, 2020
WASHINGTON (JTA) For the folks who monitor anti-Semitism, a pandemic-induced nightmare nearly became real this month. A Massachusetts man was arrested for trying to set off a firebomb near the entrance of a Jewish home for the elderly. He got the idea, federal authorities said, from the internet.
admin | April 26, 2020
The Plot Against America is actually a gripping portrayal of a potential plot against the Jews. And it poses a worrisome question: Will the latent antisemitism depicted in this HBO series based on the Phillip Roth novel prove to be fact or fiction? We only think were Americans, says Bess at a pivotal point in the television adaptation of Philip Roths dystopian novel The Plot Against America.
admin | April 26, 2020
Zoom is rolling out a new feature to help users fight pervs and trolls who hijack their video meetings. The videoconferencing company said it will put a new button in its app to let meeting hosts report misbehaving users directly to Zooms Trust and Safety team, which will evaluate the problem and block the offending user if warranted
admin | April 26, 2020
Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, ceremonies for Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day were canceled in Israel and across the world. But Yad Vashem and other institutions have found powerful and innovative ways to enable these events to be recorded, livestreamed and Zoomed, to allow us all to be separate but together in our ongoing efforts to keep the memory of the Shoah alive and ensure that Never again remains never again.At the same time, the corona era appears to have spawned a new wave of global antisemitism, and we need to be vigilant against blood libels blaming Jews for the current plague, as well as to prevent attacks against Jewish institutions.In one attack apparently motivated by online forums encouraging violence against Jews, US federal prosecutors said, a member of a white supremacist group planted a homemade bomb at a Jewish assisted-living home named Ruths House in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, last week.There have also been a number of cases of what has been termed Zoombombing, in which extremists have interrupted Zoom confrerences with antisemitic hatred.
admin | April 26, 2020
By Saraana Jamraj During their April 22 city commission meeting, the Tamarac City Commission voted, amidst a tearful discussion, to draft a resolution denouncing white supremacy. The motion was brought forward by Commissioner Mike Gelin, citing facts from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization that specializes in identifying and monitoring hate groups.
admin | April 26, 2020
Image: Matt Marshall, a leader of the Three Percenters militia movement, wearing the boogaloo Hawaiian shirt uniform at an anti-quarantine protest in Olympia, Washington (Getty) God help us if Mark Zuckerbergs next congressional hearing is on the subject of the Bloody Insurrection of 2020.
admin | April 26, 2020
Syracuse University's Student Association in a virtual meeting passed a resolution Monday condemning conservative figure Ben Shapiro's planned speech at the school this fall, the college's paper the Daily Orange reported. The lengthy resolution also branded Shapiro as a "white supremacist." In one rather jaw-dropping paragraph, student leaders added that "not only is Ben Shapiro a white supremacist, but he is homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, ableist, and classist
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.
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