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 26, 2020
September 1996. Its unsettling
admin | April 26, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: The Covid-19 pandemic has put an end to almost all public gatherings; hence, much of Jewish congregational ritual has come to a halt. Is there a way to make up for everything we missed? M.
admin | April 26, 2020
While returning home on Saturday from mailing some letters, I pulled up behind a car at a stop light which had a bumper sticker with an American flag and the words United We Stand. The phrase comes from a longer saying, United we stand, divided we fall.
admin | April 26, 2020
The woman who inspired Netflix hit Unorthodox has revealed that she was forced to sell her eggs to make some quick cash after fleeing Williamsburgs Satmar Hasidic community. Writer Deborah Feldman entered an arranged marriage at 17 years old and left the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect when she was 23 with her 3-year-old son in tow
admin | April 26, 2020
Netflixs new limited seriesUnorthodoxis a fantastic new TV show to binge. Based (loosely) on a 2012 memoir authored by Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox is told in four episodes. The critically-acclaimed series is about a girl raised in a Hasidic Jewish community
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