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How can YouTube and Reddit successfully fight Holocaust denial, but not Facebook?
While Facebook continues to struggle with Holocaust denial on its platform, policies implemented by YouTube and Reddit show that eliminating anti-Semitism on social media is still possible, a British think tank claimed in a report released last week. The document, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, tracked the frequency of the word “Holohoax” – a…
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How one woman’s need for toilet paper turned into a charity serving thousands
Last March, Liron Samara, an Israeli-born psychotherapist living in Los Angeles, read an article about an elderly woman who couldn’t find toilet paper at the store. It was shortly after the coronavirus pandemic had turned toilet paper into a rare and valuable commodity. Samara had just lost her 89-year-old grandmother in February, and she wanted…
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What Instagram tells us about Kamala Harris’s modern family
The Democratic National Convention, which began Monday night, is a crucial political moment in the 2020 presidential campaign, a chance for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to rally momentum around their base and make their case before undecided American voters. But national party conventions are also important human moments, when nominees’ families appear on the…
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Remembering Professor Ruth Gavison, scholar, activist, and friend
This past Saturday saw the untimely passing of Professor Ruth Gavison z”l, one of Israel’s leading intellectuals and legal minds, at the age of 75. Ruth Gavison was the rarest of individuals: a searingly brilliant legal theorist and a deeply engaged citizen in the life of her country, a person with little patience for small…
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‘Holohoax’ term is trending, but hate speech policies can help fight anti-Semitism online: report
More stringent hate speech policies on online platforms can reduce the visibility of anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying content, says a new report published by The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank, on Sunday. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue argues that Holocaust denial — the mitigation or rejection of realities faced by Jews during the…
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Colleges express outrage about anti-Semitism— but fail to report it as a crime
Binghamton University in upstate New York is known as one of the top colleges for Jewish life in the United States. A quarter of the student population identifies as Jewish. Kosher food is on the meal plan. There are five historically-Jewish Greek chapters and a Jewish a capella group, Kaskeset. When a swastika was drawn…
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These colleges claimed antisemitic incidents weren’t hate crimes
As part of its investigation into universities’ compliance with the Clery Act, the Forward created this list of antisemitic incidents between 2016-2018 that conceivably fit the criteria for inclusion in a school’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report as a hate crime motivated by religious bias, but were not listed there. The list of incidents…
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Chicago Jewish schools make plans to open— and experience an enrollment boomlet
Reopening is close at hand for Chicago’s Jewish day schools, after-school programs, and public school Hebrew language departments. This means devising plans that meet parent’s safety expectations, local health regulations, and teacher safety needs— all while delivering quality instruction. The result, so far, is a diverse landscape of reopening plans, including increased enrollment in Jewish…
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The frustration, hope and diversity of Minneapolis’ Black Jews
White Minnesotans liked to think their state was a progressive paradise — until it became the birthplace of America’s most powerful reckoning over racism since the Civil Rights era. Having been born and raised there myself, I grew up with the myth of Minnesotan exceptionalism: The state has welcomed immigrant communities from around the world….
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In Florida, Democrats focus on coronavirus, Republicans on Israel
The Villages is a sprawling Florida retirement community about halfway between Orlando and Gainesville. It has a small Jewish population, and its residents tend to lean Republican. But Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign is thinking that this year, it might be able to win them over. A Biden commercial, featuring a Village resident disturbed…
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Female candidate for top job at JDC steps back after public takedown some call sexist
Just about a year ago, an open letter on a website that covers Jewish non-profits outlined the plight of women who build careers in the Jewish world only to find themselves sidelined when it comes to assuming leadership roles. Signed by over 500 female Jewish professionals, the letter pinpointed an urgent problem and provided a…
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