Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on March 16, 2020

Vineland Mix, Mingle & Meet event is canceled

Vinelands Mix, Mingle & Meet event, scheduled for Wednesday at Vegans Are Us has been canceled.

For more information on this and all Main Street Vineland events, call the Main Street Vineland office at 856-794-8653, visit the organizations website at http://www.TheAve.biz, or visit the organizations Facebook page.

Ocean County Parks and Recreation will be keeping its 27 parks and two golf courses open to the public, but closing the visitor and nature centers until further notice.

Sheriff Sales, public fingerprinting and the taking of public DNA samples will not take place until April 16, according to a news release.

All Vineland municipal court sessions between March 16 and March 27 have been postponed, a city spokesperson said.

New court dates will be assigned in the coming days and notices will be sent out. Residents are also urged to not visit the court house unless absolutely necessary.

Phone lines will remain in operation. Payments can be made via mail or where eligible on-line at njmcdirect.com.

Please be advised the meetings of the following boards have been cancelled for the month of March 2020:

All city buildings in the City of North Wildwood are closed to the general public until further notice. Recreation programs are also canceled.

It is important now that we do our best to protect our most vulnerable, at risk, and through the closing of our public buildings to the general public, we are doing just that, said Mayor Patrick Rosenello. We ask our residents and property-owners to please be patient during this difficult time, and we will keep the public updated of any new policies and procedures in the coming days and weeks as they become available.

The Devico Senior Center is closed, with programs canceled until further notice, as well as the township recreation buildings. Municipal court is canceled for the nest two weeks.

Town Hall, as well as the Construction, Zoning and Public Works will be closed to the public but fully staffed.

Visit middletownship.com for a directory of phone numbers and emails for each department or call Administration at 609-465-8732.

The Township Committee meeting 6 p.m. on March 16 will be held as planned, but the 4 p.m. work session is canceled.

While this meeting is open to the public by law, we would encourage folks to review the agenda and send any comments or questions electronically, according to a news release. We will try to post the minutes of the meeting to our website as promptly as possible.

The Hamilton Township Municipal building including the court office will remain open during normal business hours. Residents may access the court office between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday to pay a ticket, make a payment on an installment plan, pay a Public Defender fee, apply for the Fresh Start program, make a records request or to conduct any other business with the course.

New court notices will be sent out with a date and time for your appearance. If your address has changed, please notify the court immediately.

You may reach the court office between the hours stated above at 609-625-6621.

WILDWOOD CREST A meeting to discuss future plans for redevelopment of the downtown business district on New Jersey Avenue, scheduled for March 28, has been postponed until May 16, at 10 a.m., according to a release from the borough.

The move is due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19, according to the release.

The meeting will be held at Wildwood Crest Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 at Rambler Road and Pacific Avenue. Tentative designs plans will be available for viewing and a public question-and-answer session will be held.

Jewish Family Service of Atlantic and Cape May counties has cancelled its 13th Annual JFS Cocktail Party, scheduled to take place on March 28 at the Gold Nugget in Atlantic City.

KIDDIE RIDE ON MOREY'S PIER, NORTH WILDWOOD

Morey's Piers and Resorts is postponing its opening day until Mothers Day weekend, May 9-10, according to a news release from the company.

New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Chief Administrator Sue Fulton has announced that all New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission agency and road testing facilities will be closed effective immediately as a measure to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. We anticipate re-opening in two weeks, on Monday, March 30, 2020.

All driver licenses, non-driver IDs, vehicle registrations, and inspection stickers expiring before May 31 have been extended by two months.

Most renewals, replacements, changes of address, and other transactions can be processed online at NJMVC.gov

Avalon is closing borough buildings and cancelling meetings in response to the spread of COVID-19, Public Information Officer Scott Wahl said in a release.

Avalon Community Hall and the Avalon Senior Center are closed through April 10, Wahl said Monday. Outdoor facilities, like playgrounds and basketball courts, will remain open.

Avalon Borough Hall remains open, but the borough urges residents who need a question answered call the office instead of visit in person. Surfaces in the building will be sanitized on a daily basis. Restrooms at Surfside Park on 30th Street will remain open.

The Avalon Environmental Commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 17, is cancelled. The Avalon Garden Club's Appreciation Breakfast scheduled for Tuesday, March 17, is cancelled. All scheduled events at the Community Hall, library and senior center are cancelled through April 10. Avalon Home and Land Owners Association's Community Connections event on Saturday, April 11, is cancelled and won't be rescheduled.

This is the time to listen to the experts and take the necessary steps to make sure our community is as reasonably protected as possible from coronavirus, Mayor Marty Pagliughi said. We continue to receive new information and guidance and our Borough policies will be dictated by this information and adjusted accordingly.

In-person Superior Court proceedings scheduled for Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17 will be postponed, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner announced Sunday night. During that time, the Judiciary will prepare to shift to virtual participation for attorneys, litigants and all court users, with extremely limited exceptions.

On a typical court day, hundreds if not thousands of attorneys, litigants, and inmates appear in courts throughout the state. We are limiting physical interactions in our courts and shifting to video and phone conferencing options for attorneys, litigants and the public, Chief Justice Rabner said.

Attorneys and litigants scheduled to appear for in-person matters at the trial level of the Superior Court and Tax Court on Monday and Tuesday should await notice of a new hearing date. Ongoing jury trials will continue as announced.

Critical court operations necessary to public safety or the administration of justice will continue. Emergent applications, as well as Extreme Risk Protective Orders and domestic violence temporary restraining orders submitted through local police departments, will continue to be accepted. The court also will continue to hold first appearance hearings and pretrial detention hearings.

Questions about individual cases should be directed to the relevant court offices. Updated information regarding court operations will continue to be made available at njcourts.gov.

Chick-fil-A will be suspending service in its restaurants' dining rooms to limit person-to-person contact while COVID-19 spreads, the chain said Sunday in a release.

Some restaurants will offer drive-thru service only, while others will continue to offer takeout, delivery and mobile orders.

SEA ISLE CITY The Community Lodge and the Recreation Center are both closed until further notice, according to a release from the city. All events scheduled for both facilities are cancelled until further notice.

OCEAN CITY All recreational facilities will be closed and all planned public events through the end of April will be cancelled as the city monitors the spread of the new coronavirus, said Ocean City Public Information Officer Doug Bergen.

The Ocean City Community Center, which includes the Ocean City Free Public Library, Aquatic and Fitness Center, Arts Center, Historical Museum and Senior Center, plus the Ocean City Sports and Civic Center and other city facilities also will be closed. All Recreation Department programs are suspended until further notice, Bergen said in a release Sunday.

Upcoming scheduled events through the end of April are canceled, including the OC Con Comic and Memorabilia Show, Girls Weekend, the Great Egg Hunts on the beach, Easter Sunrise Service, the Doo Dah Parade and Mr. Mature beauty pageant.

All public meetings of boards and commissions, except for City Council, are postponed until further notice, Bergen said.

City Hall and the Knight Building will stay open. Access to the public, however, will be limited, Bergen said.

As I mentioned in my update on Friday, there is no need to panic, Mayor Jay Gillian said. If we all work together to follow these guidelines, we can help protect the community from the worst of this virus.

AtlantiCare will ban nearly all visitors to its hospitals in accordance with New Jersey Hospital Associations voluntary guidelines, according to a post on the medical facility's Twitter page Sunday afternoon.

There are limited exceptions. Visitors for patients in hospice or end-of-life care will be chosen on a case-by-case basis. Maternity, pediatric and emergency patients can have one visitor or support person. Patients having same-day, outpatient surgeries can have one visitor.

Visitors and support persons will be screened for symptoms of flu, coronavirus and other illness.

The Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City will remain open on Monday, March 16, according to COO Torrie Garvin.

Daily updates will be available on the chapter's Facebook and Instagram pages, Garvin said.

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The Middle Township Police Department and the Lower Township Police Department Saturday evening said they would be looking to take any reports from residents that are non-emergencies and do not require the collection of evidence over the phone.

The change is to cut down on unnecessary interactions that could spread the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the two departments said in separate news releases.

Dispatchers will take callers' information and an officer will reach out in a "timely manner," Lower Township Police said.

The two departments stressed that the change was only for minor reports and was to protect the vulnerable populations in the community who could be easily infected with careless interactions.

"We feel that because our officers interact with many people throughout the day, having them unnecessarily interact with residents, many of which are considered vulnerable, is a prudent and judicious approach to limiting a possible exposure," Middle Township said in the release.

Katz Jewish Community Center in Margate will remain open during normal business hours for the time being. Various programs will be rescheduled, and the following will be cancelled beginning March 15:

The Upcoming Events section of Katz's website will provide specific updates.

The Township of Barnegat announced the following Saturday:

Municipal Directory: 609-698-0080

Departmental Extension:

Public Works: Trash/Recycling: 120

Tax/Water Collector: 140, 142, 143

Tax Assessor: 147

Building Permits: 114, 150, 153

Planning/Zoning Board: 155

Code Enforcement: 159

Recreation: 130, 132, 122

Finance: 164

Municipal Clerk: 174, 190

Registrar Vital Statistics: 176

W/S Utility Maintenance: 609-698-6185

Middle Township Mayor Tim Donohue announced Saturday afternoon, the following measures:

Given the recent recommendations of the Cape May County Health Department, a decision has been made to postpone the Night in Monte Carlo casino event scheduled for March 21 at the Sea Isle City Yacht Club. A new date will be set.

The Absecon Athletic & Social Club and Absecon Little League have suspended all practices and games effective immediately, the city says.

The board of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore in Galloway Township decided Thursday to suspend all activities at its UU Center for four weeks, and longer if warranted. Worship will still happen online, as will twice weekly pastoral chat sessions which will be broadcast on ZOOM.

In an abundance of caution for our attendees, The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC) announces cancellation of two public programs:

Wednesday, March 18 at noon

Lunch & Learn: Wonderful Women of World War II, with Rich Chiemingo

Heroes overseas and on the home front, the women of World War II: who they were, what they accomplished and why they should be remembered. Cape May United Methodist Church, 635 Washington St., Cape May.

Wednesday, March 25 at noon

Lunch & Learn: Fabulous First Ladies (Part II), with Mary Stewart

The second half of MACs popular Fabulous First Ladies series. Cape May United Methodist Church, 635 Washington St., Cape May.

An annual drive to give away 2,000 prom dresses to local girls has been postponed to mid-April due to COVID-19 fears, organizer Rene Kane wrote in an email Friday.

A message to Kane from Kensington said the store wanted to minimize the number of people inside it at a given time.

"Today, 40 girls left with dresses and huge smiles on their faces. We shed a few happy tears, which made us all feel that the work involved to put this together was worth it," Kane wrote in an email. "We left all the racks as if we will be back."

Project Prom originally was scheduled to run Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

The South Jersey Jazz Society announced Friday that it was suspending all performances until mid-April.

Mission Point Church in Somers Point sent an email to parishioners Friday evening saying Sunday services on March 15 and March 22 have been canceled. The church also will not hold its junior and senior high youth group meetings on March 15 and 19. Also, its Mothers of Preschoolers ministry will not meet on March 17. For more information, go to the church's website at mymissionpoint.com.

The Avalon Free Public Library and History Center has canceled all programming through April 10, according to a news release from the library. However, the library will remain open from patrons with normal hours of operation.

For updates, visit avalonfreelibrary.org.

The Atlantic City Boardwalk Committee Meeting, scheduled for March 18, has been canceled. The next meeting is scheduled for April 8.

The Wildwoods Convention Center and the Greater Wildwood Chamber of Commerce has postponed The Wildwoods Spring Bridal Expo scheduled for this Sunday, March 15, to a date TBD.

The 98 Degrees show scheduled for April 18 atCaesars Atlantic CityHotel & Casino has been postponed to July 11.

The Cape May Police Department have canceled comedy night.

The Cape May Point Planning Board meeting scheduled for March 18 has been postponed, according to a news release from the board. The next regularly scheduled meeting is April 15.

The Atlantic City Free Public Library will temporarily close its two locations, effective Monday at 1 p.m. The Main Library and Richmond Branch Library will remain closed until April 20.

Fresh Start Church has moved all face-to-face gatherings online over concerns for the spread of COVID-19. Volunteer teams will not be meeting. Instead, they encouraged those who would attend to watch one of the four online gatherings they have planned for Sunday at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, a new kind of cancel culture is taking hold in the entertainment industry. And it is growing.

In recent weeks, movie releases, film festivals, concerts and other entertainment events involving crowds and international travel have taken a hit from the spread of the COVID-19 respiratory illness.

The venerable South by Southwest multimedia conference in Austin, Texas, has been canceled. And next months Coachella and Stagecoach festivals have been rescheduled until the fall.

Even Disneyland, which has closed on only three previous occasions in history the Northridge quake, 9/11 and the national day of mourning after the JFK assassination announced March 12 that it would be shutting down through the end of the month, starting March 14.

From the next James Bond film and St. Patricks Day parades to the Louvre museum and BTS concerts, heres a rundown of whats been affected by the coronavirus around the world.

This list which includes events, movies, music, theater, books, opera, theme parks, museums and dance is being updated regularly as more events are affected.

A scene from 2012s Coachella. This years festival has been postponed until October.

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Following weeks of speculation, promoter Goldenvoice announced March 10 that two of its marquee annual festivals, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Stagecoach, would shift from April to October. Both events take place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. At the direction of the County of Riverside and local health authorities, Goldenvoices statement read, we must sadly confirm the rescheduling of Coachella and Stagecoach due to COVID-19 concerns.

SXSW, which was set to take place March 16-22 in Austin, as canceled March 6. In an afternoon press conference, Austin Mayor Steve Adler said he had declared a local disaster and together with that I have issued an order that effectively cancels South by Southwest this year. Major participants including the Concord record label group, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Apple, Netflix and Amazon had already pulled out before the cancellation.

E3 2020, a.k.a. the Electronic Entertainment Expo, was canceled on March 11. The conference, which would have run June 9-11 at the L.A. Convention Center, is the top trade event for the video-game industry and has had tickets available to the public since 2017.

WonderCon Anaheim 2020 has been postponed from April 10-12 to an as-yet-undecided future date. Refunds will be forthcoming. No decision has been made regarding 2020 Comic-Con International: San Diego, scheduled for July 23-26, but organizers said they were working with officials to monitor the situation. DC, the home of Wonder Woman and Batman, had already announced it would not send staffers to comics conventions in March and would assess future attendance case by case.

Acting out of what it called an abundance of caution, Boston on March 9 shelved its famed St. Patricks Day Parade, which was set for March 15 and which last year drew more than 1 million people. On March 11, Chicago called off its popular parade just days before its planned March 14 date, as did Pittsburgh before its March 15 event and Cleveland before its March 17 event. The New York City St. Patricks Day parade, which has been held every year since 1762, was finally canceled the afternoon of March 11. The parade features about 150,000 participants and draws about 2 million spectators.

Those decisions follow similar announcements about the cancellation of all St. Patricks parades and festivals in Ireland and the Belfast St. Patricks parade in Northern Ireland.

The Los Angeles Times Food Bowl, previously set for May, will be moved to the fall. Dates have yet to be announced.

RuPauls DragCon L.A. 2020, a celebration of drag, queer culture and self-expression that was set for May 1-3, has been canceled. The event will return in 2021, organizers said, and refunds will be issued.

Cinemacon 2020, the movie industrys annual trade show, has been canceled. It was to be held March 30-April 2 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

The 2020 NAB Show, organized by the National Assn. of Broadcasters and set for April, is not moving forward. The content-focused event typically draws 100,000 people to the Las Vegas Convention Center.

San Franciscos 2020 Game Developers Conference, a professional gathering for interactive industry members set for March 16-20, has been postponed after multiple participants pulled out. Microsoft, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Facebook Gaming, Unity, Amazon and Activision Blizzard were among the top gaming companies that canceled.

HISTORYCon, a three-day immersive look at American history featuring historians, authors and talent from various History Channel shows, has been postponed. The new date for the Pasadena event, which was scheduled for April 3-5, is yet to be determined.

MIPTV 2020, a March 30-April 2 global content conference in Cannes, France, has been canceled. Related events that were scheduled to take place March 28-29 also have been nixed.

Saudi Arabias inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival has been postponed indefinitely. The event was scheduled to run March 12-21.

The 10th Beijing International Film Festival, originally scheduled for late April, has been postponed indefinitely. Organizers in Beijing said March 6 that new festival dates would be announced as soon as possible.

The Prague International Film Festival, a.k.a. Febiofest, has been postponed indefinitely, organizers said March 10. It had been set for March 19-27. The government in the Czech Republic has banned gatherings of 100-plus people.

Venices famed Carnival, which had been set to run Feb. 8-25, ended prematurely on Feb. 19.

FILMART 2020, the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market, now will be held Aug. 27-29 instead of the originally scheduled stretch in late March. It is the most significant film market in Asia.

With COVID-19 hitting hard in Washington state, Emerald City Comic Con organizers decided March 6 to move the March 12-15 event to the summer. Refunds will be issued and details about the rescheduled Seattle event are forthcoming.

The AFI Tribute to Julie Andrews, set for April 25, has been postponed until early summer, with a date to be announced later, the American Film Institute announced March 7. The air date on TNT will be rescheduled as well.

Spains 23rd Malaga Festival, the biggest festival dedicated to Spanish and Latin American film and TV, has been postponed from its planned March 13-22 dates. No new dates have been floated yet. Berlin has closed all state-run theaters, operas and concert halls from March 11 through April 19.

The Santa Barbara International Orchid Show will not be held as planned March 13-15. Organizers say ticket purchases will be refunded.

Pasadena Heritage has postponed March events, including its Spring Home Tour. It hopes to announce new dates in the coming weeks.

Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time to Die.

(MGM / YouTube)

To allow for social distancing, AMC Theatres, the nations largest movie theater chain, will reduce seating capacity at its auditoriums by 50% starting March 14 and continuing until April 30.

Universal will delay the release of F9, the latest film in the Fast and the Furious franchise, by nearly a year. Itll now hit theaters on April 2, 2021, instead of May 22.

The Disney/Fox/Searchlight release calendar is clear for March and April: Mulan, The New Mutants and Antlers have been postponed. No word yet on Black Widow, which is due out May 1.

The forthcoming release of No Time to Die, Daniel Craigs final film in the James Bond franchise, has been postponed until November, according to MGM, Universal and Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The movie, previously slated to debut in the U.S. on April 10, now will hit theaters Nov. 25.

China releases for Paramounts Sonic the Hedgehog, Universals 1917, Searchlights Jojo Rabbit and Universals Dolittle have been postponed indefinitely. Should precautions related to the outbreak persist, forthcoming titles including Pixars Onward and Sony Pictures Bloodshot could also be at risk.

Sony on March 10 postponed the release of Peter Rabbit 2" until Aug. 7 in the U.S. and U.K. It had been set to premiere March 27 in the U.K. and Europe and April 3 in the U.S.

Production on Paramounts latest Mission: Impossible project has been delayed. The action flick, starring Tom Cruise, was set to film on location in Italy, which has seen one of the largest outbreaks of coronavirus outside Asia. The seventh film in the franchise is scheduled to hit theaters in July 2021.

The 2020 TCM Classic Film Festival was canceled March 12. Those who bought passes to the event, which was planned for April 16-19, can expect a full refund within 10 to 15 days. The festival will return next year.

American Cinematheque has canceled all programming at the Aero and Egyptian theaters as of March 13 until further notice.

The 19th Tribeca Film Festival, which was set for April 15-26 in New York City, has been postponed, organizers said March 12. While no further details were given, updates were promised at tribecafilm.com.

Almost all movie theaters in mainland China accounting for 70,000 screens have been shuttered.

Italy on March 4 closed all theaters and cinema where a one-meter distance requirement between patrons cannot be accommodated. Iran and the Czech Republic also have full cinema shutdowns. Movie theaters in Poland were closed on March 11.

Lebanon and Kuwait have also closed theaters, among other measures. Individual states in India have been closing cinemas since March 10, while Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and northern France have partial closures.

Major movie studios in China, including Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis and Hengdian World Studios, have shut down operations. The Chinese government has put an indefinite halt on all film production in the country.

Thtre Raymond Kabbaz in L.A. has canceled the 11th year of A Week of French-Language Cinema in Los Angeles, which was scheduled to happen March 18-22.

The 14th the Method Independent Film Festival has postponed its dates until late spring. It was scheduled for March 20-26 at the Fine Arts Theatre and the Lumiere Music Hall Theatre in Beverly Hills.

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has postponed its event (April 1-5) to a later, undetermined date this year.

The Alex Theatre in Glendale has canceled events through April 5, including the Alex Film Society screening of The Night of the Hunter on March 19.

BTS performs at the 2020 Grammy Awards.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

The L.A. Philharmonic announced March 12 that it would cancel all events at Walt Disney Concert Hall through March 31, in compliance with a state Department of Public Health directive limiting public gatherings.

BTS, Green Day, Khalid, New Order, Pentatonix, Stormzy, Mariah Carey, Avril Lavigne, Louis Tomlinson, a-ha, Santana, Madonna and Testament are among the many music acts that have called off or postponed tour dates and performances. Pussy Riot canceled its March 12 show in Santa Ana at the last minute, saying it hoped to reschedule for the fall.

Billie Eilish with great sadness postponed 11 concerts between March 13 and March 28, none of them in the Los Angeles area.

Saying on Twitter on March 10 that they have no reason to believe that it will be under control in the coming weeks ahead, Pearl Jam indefinitely postponed the North American leg of its Gigaton tour, which had included two mid-April dates at the Forum in Inglewood. Again, here in Seattle what we are witnessing we would not wish for anyone.

Carnegie Hall in New York City and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., have canceled all events through March 31.

After the late pullout by Miley Cyrus on March 9, the World Tour Bushfire Relief benefit concert in Melbourne, Australia, was canceled. Lil Nas X, pop duo the Veronicas and DJ Seb Fontaine also were on the bill for the show, which was to have been March 13.

The 2020 Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, an event that happens every four years and was set this year for March 13-22, was canceled Tuesday by host USC.

The Philharmonic Society of Orange County canceled a Shanghai Chinese Orchestra concert in Costa Mesa last month, despite all of the musicians being in good health. A Chinese New Year celebration was scheduled to take place Feb. 5 at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

The 18th Korea Times Music Festival, set to take place at the Hollywood Bowl on April 25, has been postponed due to current travel restrictions in Asia, organizers said. Ticket refunds are available.

The Ultra Music Festival, a massive Miami-based electronic music event, has been pushed back. The three-day concert, which draws 165,000 fans from across the globe, likely will be moved from this March to 2021.

Boston Court Pasadena has canceled a March 28 concert by jazz pianist Josh Nelson and hopes to eventually reschedule it.

The Tomorrowland Winter 2020 electronic-music festival, set to run March 14-21 at a ski resort in the French Alps, has been canceled by organizers after the French government banned all indoor gatherings of more than 5,000 people. Tomorrowland Summer 2020 in Belgium was still on the schedule for July.

Singer Ciara, who is pregnant, canceled a March 19 hometown concert set to open the Fort Hood USO in Killeen, Texas. The USOs grand opening will now be held this summer. My doctors have advised me to limit travel and large group gatherings, she said in a statement.

Bret Michaels, who has Type 1 diabetes, canceled March 13-14 gigs on the 80s Cruise, citing his higher risk of contracting the disease as well as problems with having enough insulin and other supplies on hand if he were to be quarantined on the ship.

The San Francisco Symphony canceled concerts through March 17 after San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed announced March 6 that the War Memorial Performing Arts Center venues would be closed for a two-week test period in an effort to slow spread of COVID-19. The symphonys home, Davies Symphony Hall, is among the venues affected.

The Colburn School of music and dance in Downtown L.A. has suspended all in-person instruction, performances and events until April 13.

Pasadena Symphony and Pops has rescheduled its March 21 Mozart & McGegan concert to May 23. Tickets will be valid for the later show. Its April 18 performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 is currently scheduled to proceed as planned.

Full Frontal host Samantha Bee.

(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Major late-night TV chat shows that tape in New York City that includes The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show will suspend taping with studio audiences starting March 16, the networks said March 11 in a coordinated announcement. TBS Full Frontal With Samantha Bee axed its studio audience starting March 11, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will follow suit March 15. The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and Late Night With Seth Meyers, which had joined in that no-audience announcement, now say they will suspend production from March 13 through their previously planned hiatus the week of March 23.

L.A.-based shows Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show With James Corden, The Talk and The Ellen DeGeneres Show announced March 12 that they would be going sans live audiences starting March 16.

ABCs The View, Live With Kelly and Ryan, Good Morning America, Strahan, Sara and Keke and Tamron Hall also entered the audience-free zone on March 11.

Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune announced plans March 10 to tape shows without a live studio audience. The move was made in part to protect host Alex Trebek, who has been battling Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The Dr. Phil Show will tape without an audience for about two weeks, inviting audiences back March 23. Wendy Williams is also planning to tape her talk show sans live studio audience until further notice.

The 33rd season of the Emmy-winning TV show The Amazing Race has ceased filming indefinitely, and all contestants and production staff are returning home, according to a statement from CBS. No new production date has been set for the popular reality travel competition.

With a crew of more than 400 that flies in from 20 countries, Survivor has postponed the start of Season 41 production to May from March 24. That in turn is likely to affect Season 42 production, scheduled to start on May 24. At this point, air dates for both seasons are not expected to change.

The 16th season of ABCs The Bachelorette, starring 38-year-old Clare Crawley, wont shoot overseas this time around. Production may not even leave L.A., host Chris Harrison said.

Comcasts FreeWheel and Fox News pulled out of their annual advertisers upfront presentations scheduled for March 12 and 24 in New York City. Fox Entertainment reportedly canceled program development presentations scheduled for New York, Chicago, Detroit and L.A. during the last week of March.

A+E Networks on March 9 announced that its upfronts planned for late March will be replaced by a virtual event set to begin March 23. Plans for 2021 on A&E, History and Lifetime will be presented. AMC Networks said March 9 that it will have individual conversations with advertisers in lieu of the upfront that had been set for March 18.

ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal have also nixed their upfront events and will stream their presentations instead.

Disney scrapped a two-day launch event for its new streaming platform, Disney+. The roll-out was set to take place on the Thursday and Friday leading up to the services March 24 European debut; it will be replaced by an executive press briefing via webcast.

Short-form streaming platform Quibi, which launches April 6, has canceled plans for an April 5 red-carpet launch event.

Netflix will pause production in the U.S. and Canada for at least two weeks on all scripted TV and films. Productions that will be affected include Stranger Things and Grace and Frankie, as well as the upcoming action film Red Notice, starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Ryan Reynolds.

Universal Studios Japan is closed because of the coronavirus.

(Shizuo Kambayashi / Associated Press)

Disneyland Resort on March 12 announced the closure of Disneyland and California Adventure in Anaheim, effective March 14 through the end of the month. Downtown Disney, however, will remain open. Disney hotels will stay open through March 16 to allow guests time to make travel plans. Cast members thats Disney-speak for employees will get paid during the shutdown.

Universal Studios Hollywood will close temporarily starting March 14 and said it anticipates reopening March 28. Universal CityWalk will remain open.

Knotts Berry Farm is shutting down from March 14 through the end of the month. Hotels will stay open.

Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Paris Resort will close until further notice at the end of the day March 15. The Disney Springs retail and dining complex in Orlando and Disney Village in Paris will remain open, along with the parks hotels.

Universal Orlando Resort in Florida will temporarily shut down at the close of business March 15. Universal Orlandos hotels and the Universal CityWalk there will remain open.

Universal Studios Japan has closed from Feb. 29 through early April, with the reopening date subject to change depending on the coronavirus situation.

Disneys themed resorts in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo have been shuttered until at least March 15. In a recent earnings call, the Mouse House estimated the closures would result in a roughly $175-million hit to operating income in its second fiscal quarter, should the parks remain shut for two months. On March 9, some restaurants and shops reopened at Shanghai Disneyland. On March 10, Tokyo Disneyland extended its closure into early April.

Center Theatre Group is shutting down all three of its venues, canceling performances of The Book of Mormon at the Ahmanson Theatre and The Antipodes at the Mark Taper Forum, both in downtown L.A.; and Block Party performances at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. The group is contacting ticket holders by email.

Hamilton at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre is suspended through March 31, effective immediately. Tickets will be refunded.

All performances on Broadway have been shut down through April 12, effective immediately, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced March 12. Thats in line with a state ban on gatherings of more than 500 people that will go into effect on March 13.

South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa has canceled all performances of Outside Mullingar, starting March 13, but is working to make the show available online. The theater is moving its March 16 announcement of the 2020-21 season to Facebook, and the March 16 NewSCRipts reading has been postponed until further notice. SCR Theatre Conservatory classes are continuing.

Through the end of March, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa is canceling performances of A Bronx Tale, Beep, Rock, Paper, Scissors, !DAMAS!, Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical, Dancing With the Stars Live! Broadway Legends: An All-Star Tribute to Harold Prince and the Ccile McLorin Salvant and Aaron Diehl Trio. All free events in the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza are nixed through March 31, as are classes at the Centers American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School and School of Dance and Music for Children With Disabilities.

Performances of Cirque du Soleils Volta in Costa Mesa are canceled. Shows were scheduled for March 18-April 19 at the Orange County Fair & Event Center.

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North Wildwood closes city buildings

All city buildings in the City of North Wildwood are closed to the general public until further notice. Recreation programs are also canceled.

It is important now that we do our best to protect our most vulnerable, at risk, and through the closing of our public buildings to the general public, we are doing just that, said Mayor Patrick Rosenello. We ask our residents and property-owners to please be patient during this difficult time, and we will keep the public updated of any new policies and procedures in the coming days and weeks as they become available.

The Devico Senior Center is closed, with programs canceled until further notice, as well as the township recreation buildings. Municipal court is canceled for the nest two weeks.

Town Hall, as well as the Construction, Zoning and Public Works will be closed to the public but fully staffed.

Visit middletownship.com for a directory of phone numbers and emails for each department or call Administration at 609-465-8732.

The Township Committee meeting 6 p.m. on March 16 will be held as planned, but the 4 p.m. work session is canceled.

While this meeting is open to the public by law, we would encourage folks to review the agenda and send any comments or questions electronically, according to a news release. We will try to post the minutes of the meeting to our website as promptly as possible.

The Hamilton Township Municipal building including the court office will remain open during normal business hours. Residents may access the court office between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday to pay a ticket, make a payment on an installment plan, pay a Public Defender fee, apply for the Fresh Start program, make a records request or to conduct any other business with the course.

New court notices will be sent out with a date and time for your appearance. If your address has changed, please notify the court immediately.

You may reach the court office between the hours stated above at 609-625-6621.

Jewish Family Service of Atlantic and Cape May counties has cancelled its 13th Annual JFS Cocktail Party, scheduled to take place on March 28 at the Gold Nugget in Atlantic City.

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Morey's Piers and Resorts is postponing its opening day until Mothers Day weekend, May 9-10, according to a news release from the company.

New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Chief Administrator Sue Fulton has announced that all New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission agency and road testing facilities will be closed effective immediately as a measure to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. We anticipate re-opening in two weeks, on Monday, March 30, 2020.

All driver licenses, non-driver IDs, vehicle registrations, and inspection stickers expiring before May 31 have been extended by two months.

Most renewals, replacements, changes of address, and other transactions can be processed online at NJMVC.gov

Avalon is closing borough buildings and cancelling meetings in response to the spread of COVID-19, Public Information Officer Scott Wahl said in a release.

Avalon Community Hall and the Avalon Senior Center are closed through April 10, Wahl said Monday. Outdoor facilities, like playgrounds and basketball courts, will remain open.

Avalon Borough Hall remains open, but the borough urges residents who need a question answered call the office instead of visit in person. Surfaces in the building will be sanitized on a daily basis. Restrooms at Surfside Park on 30th Street will remain open.

The Avalon Environmental Commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 17, is cancelled. The Avalon Garden Club's Appreciation Breakfast scheduled for Tuesday, March 17, is cancelled. All scheduled events at the Community Hall, library and senior center are cancelled through April 10. Avalon Home and Land Owners Association's Community Connections event on Saturday, April 11, is cancelled and won't be rescheduled.

This is the time to listen to the experts and take the necessary steps to make sure our community is as reasonably protected as possible from coronavirus, Mayor Marty Pagliughi said. We continue to receive new information and guidance and our Borough policies will be dictated by this information and adjusted accordingly.

In-person Superior Court proceedings scheduled for Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17 will be postponed, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner announced Sunday night. During that time, the Judiciary will prepare to shift to virtual participation for attorneys, litigants and all court users, with extremely limited exceptions.

On a typical court day, hundreds if not thousands of attorneys, litigants, and inmates appear in courts throughout the state. We are limiting physical interactions in our courts and shifting to video and phone conferencing options for attorneys, litigants and the public, Chief Justice Rabner said.

Attorneys and litigants scheduled to appear for in-person matters at the trial level of the Superior Court and Tax Court on Monday and Tuesday should await notice of a new hearing date. Ongoing jury trials will continue as announced.

Critical court operations necessary to public safety or the administration of justice will continue. Emergent applications, as well as Extreme Risk Protective Orders and domestic violence temporary restraining orders submitted through local police departments, will continue to be accepted. The court also will continue to hold first appearance hearings and pretrial detention hearings.

Questions about individual cases should be directed to the relevant court offices. Updated information regarding court operations will continue to be made available at njcourts.gov.

Chick-fil-A will be suspending service in its restaurants' dining rooms to limit person-to-person contact while COVID-19 spreads, the chain said Sunday in a release.

Some restaurants will offer drive-thru service only, while others will continue to offer takeout, delivery and mobile orders.

SEA ISLE CITY The Community Lodge and the Recreation Center are both closed until further notice, according to a release from the city. All events scheduled for both facilities are cancelled until further notice.

OCEAN CITY All recreational facilities will be closed and all planned public events through the end of April will be cancelled as the city monitors the spread of the new coronavirus, said Ocean City Public Information Officer Doug Bergen.

The Ocean City Community Center, which includes the Ocean City Free Public Library, Aquatic and Fitness Center, Arts Center, Historical Museum and Senior Center, plus the Ocean City Sports and Civic Center and other city facilities also will be closed. All Recreation Department programs are suspended until further notice, Bergen said in a release Sunday.

Upcoming scheduled events through the end of April are canceled, including the OC Con Comic and Memorabilia Show, Girls Weekend, the Great Egg Hunts on the beach, Easter Sunrise Service, the Doo Dah Parade and Mr. Mature beauty pageant.

All public meetings of boards and commissions, except for City Council, are postponed until further notice, Bergen said.

City Hall and the Knight Building will stay open. Access to the public, however, will be limited, Bergen said.

As I mentioned in my update on Friday, there is no need to panic, Mayor Jay Gillian said. If we all work together to follow these guidelines, we can help protect the community from the worst of this virus.

AtlantiCare will ban nearly all visitors to its hospitals in accordance with New Jersey Hospital Associations voluntary guidelines, according to a post on the medical facility's Twitter page Sunday afternoon.

There are limited exceptions. Visitors for patients in hospice or end-of-life care will be chosen on a case-by-case basis. Maternity, pediatric and emergency patients can have one visitor or support person. Patients having same-day, outpatient surgeries can have one visitor.

Visitors and support persons will be screened for symptoms of flu, coronavirus and other illness.

The Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City will remain open on Monday, March 16, according to COO Torrie Garvin.

Daily updates will be available on the chapter's Facebook and Instagram pages, Garvin said.

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The Middle Township Police Department and the Lower Township Police Department Saturday evening said they would be looking to take any reports from residents that are non-emergencies and do not require the collection of evidence over the phone.

The change is to cut down on unnecessary interactions that could spread the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the two departments said in separate news releases.

Dispatchers will take callers' information and an officer will reach out in a "timely manner," Lower Township Police said.

The two departments stressed that the change was only for minor reports and was to protect the vulnerable populations in the community who could be easily infected with careless interactions.

"We feel that because our officers interact with many people throughout the day, having them unnecessarily interact with residents, many of which are considered vulnerable, is a prudent and judicious approach to limiting a possible exposure," Middle Township said in the release.

Katz Jewish Community Center in Margate will remain open during normal business hours for the time being. Various programs will be rescheduled, and the following will be cancelled beginning March 15:

The Upcoming Events section of Katz's website will provide specific updates.

The Township of Barnegat announced the following Saturday:

Municipal Directory: 609-698-0080

Departmental Extension:

Public Works: Trash/Recycling: 120

Tax/Water Collector: 140, 142, 143

Tax Assessor: 147

Building Permits: 114, 150, 153

Planning/Zoning Board: 155

Code Enforcement: 159

Recreation: 130, 132, 122

Finance: 164

Municipal Clerk: 174, 190

Registrar Vital Statistics: 176

W/S Utility Maintenance: 609-698-6185

Middle Township Mayor Tim Donohue announced Saturday afternoon, the following measures:

Given the recent recommendations of the Cape May County Health Department, a decision has been made to postpone the Night in Monte Carlo casino event scheduled for March 21 at the Sea Isle City Yacht Club. A new date will be set.

The Absecon Athletic & Social Club and Absecon Little League have suspended all practices and games effective immediately, the city says.

The board of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore in Galloway Township decided Thursday to suspend all activities at its UU Center for four weeks, and longer if warranted. Worship will still happen online, as will twice weekly pastoral chat sessions which will be broadcast on ZOOM.

In an abundance of caution for our attendees, The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC) announces cancellation of two public programs:

Wednesday, March 18 at noon

Lunch & Learn: Wonderful Women of World War II, with Rich Chiemingo

Heroes overseas and on the home front, the women of World War II: who they were, what they accomplished and why they should be remembered. Cape May United Methodist Church, 635 Washington St., Cape May.

Wednesday, March 25 at noon

Lunch & Learn: Fabulous First Ladies (Part II), with Mary Stewart

The second half of MACs popular Fabulous First Ladies series. Cape May United Methodist Church, 635 Washington St., Cape May.

An annual drive to give away 2,000 prom dresses to local girls has been postponed to mid-April due to COVID-19 fears, organizer Rene Kane wrote in an email Friday.

A message to Kane from Kensington said the store wanted to minimize the number of people inside it at a given time.

"Today, 40 girls left with dresses and huge smiles on their faces. We shed a few happy tears, which made us all feel that the work involved to put this together was worth it," Kane wrote in an email. "We left all the racks as if we will be back."

Project Prom originally was scheduled to run Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

The South Jersey Jazz Society announced Friday that it was suspending all performances until mid-April.

Mission Point Church in Somers Point sent an email to parishioners Friday evening saying Sunday services on March 15 and March 22 have been canceled. The church also will not hold its junior and senior high youth group meetings on March 15 and 19. Also, its Mothers of Preschoolers ministry will not meet on March 17. For more information, go to the church's website at mymissionpoint.com.

The Avalon Free Public Library and History Center has canceled all programming through April 10, according to a news release from the library. However, the library will remain open from patrons with normal hours of operation.

For updates, visit avalonfreelibrary.org.

The Atlantic City Boardwalk Committee Meeting, scheduled for March 18, has been canceled. The next meeting is scheduled for April 8.

The Wildwoods Convention Center and the Greater Wildwood Chamber of Commerce has postponed The Wildwoods Spring Bridal Expo scheduled for this Sunday, March 15, to a date TBD.

The 98 Degrees show scheduled for April 18 atCaesars Atlantic CityHotel & Casino has been postponed to July 11.

The Cape May Police Department have canceled comedy night.

The Cape May Point Planning Board meeting scheduled for March 18 has been postponed, according to a news release from the board. The next regularly scheduled meeting is April 15.

Due to COVID-19 concerns, the Atlantic City Free Public Library has canceled all of its programs and classes through mid-April.

Our top priority is the safety of our public and staff, Library Director Robert Rynkiewicz said. Well revisit the situation in a month and consult with local officials to see when its safe to resume our usual schedule.

Follow the library on social media or visit acfpl.org for updates.

Fresh Start Church has moved all face-to-face gatherings online over concerns for the spread of COVID-19. Volunteer teams will not be meeting. Instead, they encouraged those who would attend to watch one of the four online gatherings they have planned for Sunday at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

NORTH WILDWOOD - The St. Patrick's Day celebration and parade, which was supposed to start at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at City Hall, has been canceled. Participants were to include VFW Color Guard, Vietnam Veterans of America, Irish Pipe Brigade, Emerald Society and Miss North Wildwood.

SEA ISLE CITY - The Shriner's Hospital benefit that was scheduled to take place on Friday at KIX-McNutley's on 63 Street has been postponed until April 17.

Sea Isle City's 2020 Saint Patrick's Day Parade, which was originally scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed until April 18.

Additional information about events taking place in Sea Isle City has been placed at visitsicnj.com

Governor Phil Murphy Thursday recommended that all events of 250 or more people in New Jersey including concerts, parades and sporting events be cancelled to "flatten the curve" of COVID-19 cases.

For all events still being held, Murphy said, state officials encourage attendees to practice common sense hygiene, like washing hands routinely. They also suggest that people who do not feel well stay home, and that everyone try to maintain a six-foot distance from others.

Our frontline efforts right now must be to aggressively mitigate the potential for exposure and further spread. We are taking this step because social distancing works," Murphy said in the statement. "It is our best chance to flatten the curve and mitigate the chance of rapid spread, so we can respond to this public health emergency in an even more focused manner.

Due to rising concerns around COVID-19, Holy Spirit has decided to cancel/postpone a dress rehearsal scheduled for Sunday.

The school will update if it reschedules the event.

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Pessimism runs deep in the Jewish psyche, with, tragically, good cause. Anti-Semitism goes back to the very beginnings of Jews as a people. Since biblical days, Jews have been seen as the other, outsiders, victims of conspiracy theories and myths that have no rational source. The pages of Jewish history are bloodstained from countless persecutions and pogroms. Jews have been accused of being too wealthy and too poor, too powerful and too weak, communists and financiers.

Anti-Semitism drove Jews to the New World, and it followed them there. In 1654, Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of the colony of New Amsterdam, sought to expel Jews as deceitful, very repugnant, and hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ. The Brandeis University historian Jonathan Sarna points out that Stuyvesant also railed against the Lutherans and the papists, noting that in America, the fate of Jews and the fate of other persecuted minority groups were, from the very beginning, entwined.

Even as Jews gained greater acceptance in American society, anti-Semitism persisted. During the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant moved to expel Jews, as a class, from the war zone he commanded. Leo Frank, an innocent man, was accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta in 1913. Two years later, when his death sentence was commuted, he was taken from jail by an angry mob and lynched.

In the 1920s, Henry Ford wrote a series of articles in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, accusing Jews of being part of a worldwide conspiracy based on an anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In the 1930s, Father Charles Edward Coughlin, a Detroit-based precursor to todays talk-radio shock jocks, drew up to 30 million listeners to his weekly program, on which he spewed pro-Hitler and anti-Semitic vitriol, until the show was canceled in 1939.

During World War II, an estimated half million American Jews served in the armed forces, and many encountered anti-Semitic verbal attacks from fellow soldiers questioning their loyalty to the U.S. After the war, anti-Semitism was often more subtle but still present, with quotas on Jews in universities still in practice, and Jews restricted from many neighborhoods and professions.

In recent years, as overt anti-Semitism has declined, criticism of Israels policies from the left has often morphed from anti-Zionism into anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism from the right has been more direct, and violent; both of the men charged with the fatal synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway claimed that Jews are a threat to the white race.

Jews are contending with a growing effort on university campuses to demonize Israel as a racist, illegitimate state, and thus define Jewish students who support Israel as untouchable. As a result, such students are frequently excluded from liberal groups that support causes such as Black Lives Matter, gay rights, and combatting climate change. To distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israel and racism, the Soviet refusenik turned Israeli politician Natan Sharansky applies the three Ds: delegitimization, demonization, and subjecting Israel to a double standard. Among many on the left, Israel, once admired for boxing far above its weight in a chaotic region, is viewed now as a pariah state.

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REVERB is a new documentary series fromCBSN Originals. Watch the latest episode, "Extremists Next Door," in the video player above.

American teens spend more than seven hours per day on their screens, according to the nonprofit Common Sense Media much of it out of the view of parents. This constant connection to the online world gives them access to a variety of cultures on the web, including some peddling conspiracy theories and reveling in the most extreme forms of racism and misogyny. FBI data showhate crimes in the U.S. have spiked in recent years, and violent extremists and their sympathizers find fertile ground for airing their views in some dark corners of the internet.

Since 2001, perhaps the most influential platforms for extremist internet subcultures have been anonymous imageboards. The origin of this model came from a Japanese site known as Futaba Channel (also known as 2chan). 2chan's structure of threads and discussions, based on the posting of images, led to sites like 4chan,8chan, and WizardChan. Offering users anonymity and taking a lax approach to moderation, these sites became havens for some of the internet's most graphic and extreme content. Users communicate on them with inside jokes, memes, shorthand terminology and phrases most parents probably don't understand.

Here are some commonly used terms seen across the world of anonymous imageboards and other online platforms:

2chanAn anonymous Japanese textboard, founded in 1999, that became the blueprint for future imageboards.

4chanAn anonymous imageboard started in 2003 that receives 27.7 million unique visitors every month with up to 1 million posts per day. The site is organized by different boards about topics such as video games (v), random (b) and politically incorrect (pol). Known for limited moderation, leading to threads filled with extreme content and graphic images. The Anti-Defamation League has described 4chan as "a place for the alt right to share offensive content & create a hateful subculture. This leads to harassment & intimidation, both online & offline."

8kunAn anonymous image board previously known as 8chan. In 2019, three different far-right terrorists posted manifestoes to 8chan in advance of their attacks, prompting web services companies to pull their support.

WizardChanAn anonymous image board for "for male virgins where they can share their thoughts, vent, and discuss their interests and lifestyle as a virgin."

IncelShort for "involuntarily celebate," incels are an online subculture known for hostility towards women. There have been several deadly rampages attributed to men who identify as incels and those claiming to pursue an "incel revolution."

WizardA male virgin who is over 30 years old. They often attribute their celibacy to social anxieties and depression.

Wizard ApprenticeA male virgin who is under 30 years old and is not seeking to have sex.

UglycelAn incel who attributes their "inceldom" to their lack of attractiveness.

WristcelAn incel who attributes their "inceldom" to the thinness of their wrists.

FramecelAn incel who attributes their "inceldom" to their small skeletal frame.

GymcelAn incel who works out, hoping to become more attractive.

LooksmaxxingAny action taken by an incel to improve their appearance. These Include haircuts, working out, dietary changes.

ChadA derogatory name, used by incels, for the archetype of men that women find attractive.

StacyA derogatory name, used by incels, for attractive women. To incels, "Stacys" are only interested in "Chads."

NormieShort for "normal," a derogatory term for people who are considered mainstream.

Decile ScaleA numerical scale to rate attractiveness level. Each number represents a different level of attractiveness. According to Incel.wiki, the scale for men is: Trucel(1), Incel(2), Incelish(3), Melvin(4), Tanner(5), Brad(6), High-Tier Normie(7), Chad-Lite(8), Chad(9), Gigachad(10). And the scale for women is: Truecel(1), Femcel(2), Femcelish(3), Low-tier Becky(4), Becky(5-6), High-tier Becky ](7), Stacylite(8), Stacy(9), Gigastacy 10)

Blue, Red and Black PillsBased on the film "The Matrix," these pills represent three different levels of awareness on a variety of social and political issues.

Blue Pill Is meant to represent people who believe mainstream ideas. It's used as a derogatory term for people who have conventional views that people in these online forums consider ignorant.

Red PillA person who has had their eyes opened to alternative, often fringe ideologies that counter the prevailing ideas of mainstream society. People who refer to themselves as "redpilled" look at ideas like women's equality, liberalism, and racial justice as the downfall of Western civilization.

Black PillA term used by the incel community to refer to a fatalist and misogynistic view of society. The black pill represents a belief that their sexual prospects are doomed from birth, and that women are superficial and cruel.

NEETA person who is not in employment, education or training. Commonly used to describe a person who rarely leaves the house.

AnonAn unknown person.

Alt-RightFar-right movement known for anti-immigration and white nationalist beliefs.

Femoids A derogatory term for women, used by many incels.

Succubus A derogatory term used on WizardChan to describe women.

HikikomoriA Japanese term used for a unsociable recluse who stays inside all the time and relies on their parents for support.

1488 A combination of two numbers that are symbolic for white supremacists. The 14 represents the 14 words that make up a known white supremacist slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The 88 stands for the phrase "Heil Hitler" because the letter "H" comes eighth in the alphabet.

/Pol/ The "Politically Incorrect" board on 4chan, known for racist, sexist and anti-Semitic comments.

/B/ The Random board on 4chan, known for graphic images. The Random board was the first board created on 4chan in 2003.

LARP Acronym for Live Action Role Playing. In incel communities it is used to describe someone pretending to be someone they are not.

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Burned into the historical memory of the Jewish people is what happened in the period when the bubonic plague swept through Europe from 1347 to 1351. The Black Death was one of the greatest demographic catastrophes to afflict the human race in recorded history. Historians estimate that up to 50 percent of Europes population died in the pandemic with rates of death as high as 75 percent in Italy, Spain and France, where the disease was present for four years.

But the tragedy for Jews was not just the risk of a deadly contagion. In the midst of unimaginable suffering, many European Christians wanted a scapegoat. The Jewish minorityalready often set apart in ghettos, and subject to demonization from both church and statewas an easy choice, and massacres and pogroms targeting Jews across Europe followed.

Though the world has changed a great deal in the intervening centuries, the impulse to find someone to blame for diseases or other calamities is still embedded in the human psyche. So its hardly surprising to learn that there has been a surge of anti-Semitic activity in which anti-Semites have sought to tie Jews to the creation and/or spread of the coronavirus.

As JNS reported on Monday, a group of George Washington University students attended the AIPAC policy conference and, due to fears of an affected person being at the event in Washington, D.C., was briefly quarantined. Some of them found themselves being targeted on social media by other students who spread the lie that people would get the disease because of the actions of white supremacists and Zionists. Another student, who wears a kipah, reported that he was surrounded and taunted by a group who called him yahood (Arabic for Jew) and asserted that Jews had started and produced the virus.

The presence of an infected person at AIPAC also drew an unhealthy interest from many Israel-haters with none other than Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) reportedly retweeting (and then subsequently deleting) an account of what happened either out of a sense of schadenfreude or to please those fans of the hate she has spread about Israel, as well as its Jewish supporters who are an audience for conspiracy theories.

But the disturbing reactions to the AIPAC story werent isolated incidents. The Anti-Defamation League reported in early February that neo-Nazis and white supremacists were using the Internet to spread conspiracy theories about Jews being behind the disease. Since then, the parallel contagion of anti-Semitic bile has kept pace with the spread of the virus and likely will continue to build as frustration over the shutdown of much of communal life gives idle minds even more time to waste staring at the screens of computers and smartphones.

There are some obvious conclusions to be drawn from this depressing example of humanitys weaknesses.

The first is that like all examples of Jew-hatred, the efforts of those eager to scapegoat Jews or Israel for the virus have absolutely nothing to do with anything their intended targets have actually done. Anti-Semitism is always about the manias of the anti-Semites, not the actions or words of the Jews.

In this context, its useful to recall that some who blamed Jews for the plague were reacting to the fact that in those instances, Jews were not as drastically affected as the rest of the population. Some have theorized that Jewish custom and law that mandated regular washing was one reason. Another was the fact that Jews rid their homes of grain (consumed by the rats that spread the plague) in the spring prior to Passover, when the plague was usually at its worst. But it may also have had to do with the fact that in many places, Jews were lodged in ghettos and physically isolated from other people. Anti-Jewish discriminatory measures had created, in effect, a quarantine that would only be broken when the mobs attacked the ghettos.

Yet in those places where Jews and Christians lived alongside each other, the toll of suffering was much the same.

It should be recalled that Islamist radicals have sought to blame Israel and the Jews for the 9/11 attacks in a pitiful attempt to divert attention from the real culprits. So, too, do some today cite Israels amazing high-tech contributions to medicine and health in order to fuel new conspiracies about the virus. If, as may well prove to be the case, Israeli scientists give the world a coronavirus vaccine, friends of the Jewish state will most likely mock those who advocate boycotts of its products. But expect the same anti-Semitic hatemongers to claim that its all part of a nefarious Jewish plot.

Of course, we shouldnt pretend that Jews are exempt from the temptation to find scapegoats.

An example of how religious figures discredit Judaism to the non-observant came when Rabbi Meir Mazuz, a prominent Israeli ultra-nationalist, said last week that the virus was an act of Divine judgment aimed at humanity in order to punish it for gay-pride parades in the Jewish state. Mazuz has in the past blamed acts of terrorism on gay people, as well as asserted that a garage collapse and the crash of an Israeli satellite were due to desecration of the Sabbath. Nor was his recent act of incitement made any less disgusting when he accompanied it with a claim that the strength of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran was also a punishment for the regimes hatred of Israel.

Like disease, hateful scapegoating and attempts to implicate the Almighty in tragic events knows no boundariesand finds willing hosts wherever ignorance and prejudice finds a home.

Just as it is deplorable for anti-Semites or other sorts of bigots to conflate their psychosis and hate-filled myths with the struggle against a real disease, wed all do well to avoid trying to confuse debates about other issues, especially those related to immigration and borders, with the question of how to stop the spread of the contagion. Shutting down travel or restricting access to borders is not an act of prejudice, but common sense at a time of peril. In this regard, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus decisive actions to try to limit its reach were entirely correct.

We have no idea of how bad things will get as much of the world shuts down in order to prevent the virus from claiming more victims. But we do know that the basic instincts and fears of human beings that drove so much hate in earlier eras remain in spite of the trappings of technology and civilization that often cloak them. We may well find a cure for coronavirus, either in Israel or elsewhere. But a cure for the virus of anti-Semitism and senseless hate is likely to continue to elude humanity.

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Jewish Atlanta may look back on March 2020 as the beginning of lasting changes in the life of the community.

For now, though, the threat posed by the coronavirus, which is responsible for the disease COVID-19, is forcing congregations, schools and communal organizations, not to mention individuals, to be nimble in how they adapt to a new reality.

A brave new world is what David Abusch-Magder, The Epstein Schools head of school, called it.

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A brave new world is how David Abusch-Magder, head of school at the Epstein School, describes adapting education to meet the health crisis.

Rituals and traditions, some dating back hundreds of years, are being discouraged as potential health hazards.

Social distancing is in. Going to shul with sniffles or a cough is out. Following services online is in. Kissing a mezuzah or Torah scroll is out. Pointing reverently is in. Shaking hands and hugging when greeting people is out. Fist and elbow bumps, or placing your hand over your heart, are in. A human web of hands on shoulders during hamotzi (blessing over bread) is out. Communal supplies of tallitot and kippot are being put away.

And no more grabbing food at the oneg with hands. Thats what the tongs are for. At Congregation Etz Chaim, the oneg offered prepackaged bagels and cookies, while Rabbi Daniel Dorsch wore gloves to tear the challah.

What it means to be in community is being redefined. Modern technology has, by necessity, expanded the reach of ancient prayers to those for whom safeguarding their health takes precedence over attending services. Not only worship services, but also education for children and adults and other programming, is going digital at numerous congregations.

In the Atlanta Jewish community, as throughout society, the threat to public health has accelerated the pace of changes in how men and women work, and how teachers teach and students learn.

Even as this article was being prepared, new reports of measures taken on an emergency basis were received. More can be expected in the days ahead. How long they remain in effect will depend on how soon the spread of the potentially deadly disease is brought under control.

In the short term, to help flatten the curve the phrase for reducing the rate of infection several institutions have closed their doors, temporarily.

The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta closed the evening of March 13 and will remain closed through at least March 20. That means all programs, from pickle ball to preschool.

The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta is closed at least through Friday and will reopen when we are confident we can provide a safe environment, Jared Power, JCC chief executive officer, says.

In an email to the Marcus JCC Family, CEO Jared Powers said, Our decision to keep the Marcus JCC closed was not an easy one, but we are steadfast in our commitment to keep our community safe and to do our part to stop the spread of this virus. As an agency, we would love nothing more than to continue to operate and serve our community during these difficult times in the manner you are all accustomed to. Unfortunately, most of our programs and activities do not lend themselves to social distancing.We simply cannot risk endangering peoples health.We will reopen our facilities when we are confident we can provide a safe environment for our members and staff.

Likewise at The Temple, As a sacred community, we are aware of our moral and religious responsibilities and believe it is necessary to do our part to keep our community safe and slow the spread of the coronavirus. Many schools have announced closings for a minimum of two weeks and many businesses are doing the same.After serious consideration,for the next two weekswe have decided to suspend worship services and all programs that take place at The Temple, read a letter sent by its religious and lay leaders.

Closing Ohr HaTorah until further notice was a very difficult decision but ultimately I think the right one, Rabbi Adam Starr wrote to his congregation.

And at Ohr HaTorah. It is with a very heavy heart that after agonizing for hours over this decision with numerous consultations, I have decided to close the shul for services and other activities for the time being beginning this Shabbat until further notice. This was a very difficult decision but ultimately I think the right one. These are unprecedented times which lead to this unprecedented action. As I often say what makes a shul special is that it operates 365 days a year never taking off for a single prayer service. It pains me to think of our shul empty from Teffilot to Hashem. Nevertheless this is what I believe Hashem wants from us at this time, Rabbi Adam Starr wrote on the congregation website.

And at the Ahavath Achim Synagogue. After having evaluated the latest information available, as well as the responses from various agencies and stakeholders, we have reached the difficult decision to cancel all in-person programs, meetings, family and youth activities etc. over the next week.To that end our building will be closed with immediate effect for at least the coming week. We will continue to monitor the situation and make decisions based on the latest information as to the potential ongoing closure of our facility, though services will be livestreamed, according to a notice from Ahavath Achims executive director Barry Herman on the synagogues website.

The doors also will be closed until further notice beginning March 16 at Jewish Family & Career Services Dunwoody campus, its Cobb County office, and the Ben Massell Dental Clinic. Were here to help our community in these challenging times. Telehealth options are now available for our current and new clients in counseling and older adult services, reads a notice on the JF&CS website.

The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum will remain closed from Monday, March 16, through at least Friday, March 20. Leslie Gordon, the Breman Museums executive director, said the museum plans to post content on its website throughout the closure and also is creating lesson plans for teachers, drawing from its series of Holocaust survivor speakers.

The largest communal organization, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, has shifted some operations away from The Selig Center, with staff working remotely. To be clear, we are not closing Federation a Federations work never stops! Like so many of our communal organizations, we will just be working differently, Eric Robbins, Federation CEO and president, wrote in a public notice.

According to an internal email, all Federation events scheduled through the end of April are to be postponed and outside groups that have rented The Selig Center will be contacted to discuss their plans. Online meetings are preferred, while any in-person meeting will be capped at 20 participants and, even then the guidance to staff was, Please use discretion. All work-related travel through April was to be canceled.

The Federation has created a web page, https://jewishatlanta.org/covid19-resources/, with resources available to the community. Among them, Jewish Home Life is prepared to assist the elderly with various services.

Parents with children home from school can turn to the PJ Library for books. The Prizmah Knowledge Center has created a COVID-19 guidance page.

Prizmah also will assist Jewish day schools that plan virtual, rather than in-person learning. One such school is The Epstein School, which canceled classes on March 13 and will move to digital learning platforms starting March 16. The Weber School announced it will be closed to students on March 16 and 17 and may transition to online learning thereafter.

The Epstein School canceled its seventh grade trip to Washington, D.C., scheduled for late March, and Aprils eighth grade trip to Israel may be lost to Israels efforts to halt the spread of coronavirus. That would be regrettable because the Israel trip is a compelling experience for our students, which we also consider an essential part of theirEpstein experience, Abusch-Magder said.

The number of congregations livestreaming services has increased in response to the coronavirus.

Congregation Bet Haverim, which provided members with a link to watch services this past Shabbat, may move to online-only services in the future. If this is the case, we may look for a minyan of people who are willing to be in the room together at CBH during the livestream, Rabbi Josh Lesser wrote to the congregation.

Those who may be sick and those who are vulnerable to infection should watch the livestream from home. Even beyond this, if you dont have a specific role, a direct connection with the family, or a ritual reason to be there (like saying Kaddish), we ask you to stayhome so that we can better ensure the safety of the people who need to be there, Lesser wrote, also excusing bnai mitzvah students from their service requirements for the time being.

Congregation Bnai Torah planned to begin livestreaming with its Friday night service March 13. Rabbi [Joshua] Heller has been part of crafting the Conservative Movements guidance on streaming of services which states that one may participate in a service via livestream provided that a minyan of Jews is present with the leader, and that one should do so in ways that minimize violations of Shabbat, a statement on its website read.

Rabbi Joshua Heller of Congregation BNai Torah helped craft the Conservative movements guidelines on how to conduct live-streaming of services.

Religious services at Bnai Torah, including the daily minyan, will continue as long as our advisors and government authorities indicate that we can do so safely. Services will be held in an expanded sanctuary and we ask family groups to sit at least 6 feet apart from other families. After this Shabbat, we may actively limit the number of live attendees on Shabbat, and we will roll out a system to do so.

Over a period of several days, a diverse collection of community events were canceled out of an abundance of caution. Among them were the March 12-15 spring showcase of the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival, the March 15 Hunger Walk Run to benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the Anti-Defamation Leagues March 15 Jurisprudence Luncheon, the March 15 Bearing Witness: Unforgettable Stories from the Holocaust program at The Breman Museum, the Atlanta Scholars Kollels Tribute 2020 at the Atlanta History Center, and the March 19 annual Tenenbaum Lecture sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.

Heading into Passover, which begins at sunset April 8, the annual Hunger Seder sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta has been canceled, though an online version may be created as a replacement. Congregation Bet Haverim also canceled its annual community seder.

The AJT reported recently on how the coronavirus was just one more factor for Lauren Menis to consider as she planned her daughter Sarahs upcoming bat mitzvah at Temple Emanu-El. On top of the usual stress that goes into practicing for a bat mitzvah, Sarah had the added pressure of learning to speak into a video camera so that those unable to travel could view the service. In the end, the bat mitzvah is being rescheduled. Its supposed to be a joyous occasion when shes surrounded by family, Lauren Menis said. Itll be much better to have everyone there.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White MK Gabi Ashkenazi began talks on Saturday night in order to form an emergency unity government, according to Channel 12. Members of Blue and White are still split on the idea of a unity government with Netanyahu.Ashkenazi and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz are the main supporters of a unity government with Netanyahu, while Moshe Ya'alon and Yair Lapid are against the idea."Anyone who criticized us when we warned against us becoming [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan's Turkey, should digest and internalize the cynical exploitation of the coronavirus crisis for personal political needs of a defendant before trial," tweeted Ya'alon on Saturday night.

Blue and White officials said on Saturday that they are ready to join a unity government with Netanyahu, but that they are unsure about how serious his offers of a unity government are, according to Channel 12.

Netanyahu has called multiple times for the formation of an emergency unity government between the Likud Party and Blue and White amid the coronavirus outbreak.

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Scientists around the world, including in Israel, are working hard to discover a cure, or at least a vaccine, for the coronavirus.But what about the virus known as politics?That virus has been around since Adam and Eve and the snake in the Garden of Eden, as well as with their sons Cain and Abel.For weeks, it looked like Israeli politicians across the political spectrum were so infected by the virus of politics that they were putting it ahead of dealing with the coronavirus.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave one indication after another that he was seeking a fourth Israeli election in under a year and a half. He even invited the Likuds constitution committee to meet next week to cancel the automatic Likud leadership race.Blue and White leader Benny Gantz also appeared to be living in the world that existed before anyone had heard of COVID-19, as he moved full speed ahead with his plans to head a minority government backed from outside the coalition by the Joint List.Neither the rebellion in Blue and White of MKs Yoaz Hendel and Tzvi Hauser, nor the quieter opposition of Blue and White cockpit member Gabi Ashkenazi, nor the betrayal of MK Orly Levy-Abecassis stopped Gantz from moving forward with the idea.But Thursday, it appeared that the political virus had finally begun to lose its power, as party head after party head endorsed forming a national emergency government. The list of leaders calling for unity even included those who did not have a personal political interest in such a government.Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman said the government should include only ministers of Likud and Blue and White.Netanyahu invited Gantz to talk about an emergency government. Gantz accepted the request, and while he conditioned it on all eight factions in the Knesset joining a wide coalition, including the Joint List, a yes is a yes.The talks between Netanyahu and Gantz will determine whether they have indeed been cured, at least temporarily, of the virus of politics and are now ready to focus entirely on dealing with that other virus that has been in the news.

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Based on the recent decisions by LAUSD, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), as well as the recommendations of public officials, and the collective caution surrounding COVID-19, Violins of Hope activities in Los Angeles have been suspended.

Violins of Hope is an internationally renowned project that is a collection of over 60 stringed instruments rescued from the Holocaust and restored by second-generation violinmaker, Amnon Weinstein, and his son, Avshalom in their shop in Tel Aviv. Four symphonic orchestras, a major heritage museum and one of Los Angeles' leading performing arts centers joined together to bring the collection to Los Angeles from March 22 to April 26, 2020 for a month-long series of concerts, exhibits, and student educational programming.

Performances cancelled at The Soraya (CSUN) include the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony (March 22), Rotterdam Philharmonic (March 25), and Jerusalem Quartet (April 5). Other concerts include by the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic at Wilshire Ebell Theatre (March 29), New West Symphony at Thousand Oaks Civic Plaza (April 18) and Rancho Campana PAC, Camarillo (April 19), and Long Beach Symphony at Terrace Theatre, Long Beach (April 25). Also cancelled is an exhibit at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (March 18 to April 19). Refunds will be processed for all of The Soraya's ticketholders. Please contact other organizations for refund information.

In addition, Avshalom Weinstein is hastening his return overseas before further travel restrictions are announced.

Thor Steingraber, Executive Director of The Soraya said, "Although we will not be able to reschedule these events this year, we are already working with the Weinsteins to identify future dates for some of the Violins of Hope activities. We are pleased to share that The Soraya's Arts Education program along with Artist-in-Residence Niv Ashkenazi, the only musician in North America who possesses one of the violins from the collection, completed thirty K-12 school visits. A new generation has successfully been introduced to the important ideas that are at the heart of Violins of Hope."

Steingraber continued, "In addition, I am grateful to Chair Susanne Reyto for inspiring 29 different organizations to produce or host events and concerts in the coming weeks, and I extend my sincerest gratitude for the 142 supporters who contributed to our concerts and education efforts at The Soraya."

Honorary Chair L.A. City Controller Ron Galperin said, "As the son of Holocaust survivors, I see Violins of Hope as an opportunity to build a bridge from the past to the present through the universal language of music. While I am disappointed that the events we worked so hard to present cannot take place at this time, my greatest concern in the health and wellbeing of the greater community. And I am hopeful that, in the future, we will have the chance to bring Violins of Hope to the many thousands of people who need to hear the stories these wonderful instruments tell. They show us all that, even when times are dark, the best of humanity perseveres and, ultimately, prevails."

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