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What is Black Lives Matter? Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a non-centralized grassroots social justice movement organized by regional chapters urging society to value Black lives and recognize their marginalization. more

7/3/20

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on April 10, 2018. Later that year, the Anti-Defamation League would start to pivot from collaborating with Facebook to pressuring it on its hate speech policies.

How the ADL went from working with Facebook to leading a boycott against it

(JTA) — It was when Mark Zuckerberg said he would allow Holocaust denial on his platform that the Anti-Defamation League realized its partnership with Facebook wasn’t working. The … more

Ben Sales | 7/2/20

Becoming a rebbetzin

(JTA) – Samantha Zerin headed home from a Yiddish class she had taught as part of her synagogue’s adult education program on the evening of Dec. 19 and knew her life was about to change. … more

JOSEFIN DOLSTEN | 7/1/20

AIPAC cancels next year’s policy conference

(JTA) – AIPAC has canceled its 2021 policy conference, citing the “continued uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic.”Betsy Korn, the president of the American Israel Public … more

MARCY OSTER | 6/5/20

How Philadelphia’s creative Jews are handling the coronavirus pandemic

PHILADELPHIA ( JTA ) — Before the social unrest erupted here in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Philadelphia struggled mightily with the coronavirus pandemic as one of the nation’s … more

Stephen Silver | 6/4/20

Tending wounds and distributing supplies: Minneapolis Jews care for a city in turmoil

( JTA ) — Dr. Vivian Fischer spent five hours Saturday walking toward Minneapolis’s devastation from her home in a suburb immediately outside the city. The family physician put on gray scrubs, … more

Debra Nussbaum Cohen | 6/1/20

Valerie Braham, widow of one of the victims of the Hyper Cacher grocery store shooting in Paris, appears in “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations.”

Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS documentary

( J. The Jewish News of Northern California ) — Any person who follows the news knows that anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world. As it has spread, so has our insight that this is a hatred … more

Laura Paull | 5/27/20

Students at Nishmat in Jerusalem wear masks and are separated by Plexiglas barriers to protect against the coronavirus.

As colleges go virtual, students instead are heading to Israel on gap year programs

(JTA) — Hadara Bilsky thought she’d spend her first semester of college making friends in her dorm, having discussions with professors and students in class, and attending Shabbat services at … more

Josefin Dolsten | 5/21/20

A health care worker conducts coronavirus nasal swabs at drive-through testing facility, in Melbourne, Fla., April 8, 2020.

This Jewish medical student is helping reduce racial disparities in coronavirus testing

( JTA ) — At the beginning of her day, Tal Lee will see as many as hundreds of cars snake around the church parking lot where she is helping to conduct coronavirus tests. Dressed in two face … more

Josefin Dolsten | 5/15/20

2019 saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in at least 40 years, ADL says

(JTA) — Last year saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in the United States since at least 1979, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The 2,107 incidents recorded in 2019 reflect a 12% … more

Ben Sales | 5/12/20