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Culture Why do we keep turning Holocaust survivor stories into self-help books?
On a recent segment of “The Today Show,” a cadre of well-coiffed hosts discussed the life of Eddie Jaku, a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor and the author of “The Happiest Man on Earth,” a memoir about his imprisonment in Auschwitz. Grainy photos of concentration camp prisoners alternated with clips from an interview with Jaku and videos…
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Culture A reply to Van Morrison’s totally sane song about media control
New antisemitic Van Morrison track dropped! At least it sure sounds like it. The Irish songster, after months of COVID denial and “Braveheart” talking points about the UK “taking our freedom” for wanting to curb the spread of a deadly virus, released the song “They Own the Media” on streaming platforms Thursday. And boy is…
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Fast Forward ‘We too have become a victim of Covid-19’: Biggest Jewish newspapers in Britain, Canada will close
The most prominent Jewish newspapers in Britain and Canada have both announced this week that they will soon close due to a lack of funds exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The closures will leave the nations with the fourth- and fifth-biggest Jewish populations in the world without non-sectarian newspapers that cover the nationwide Jewish community….
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Fast Forward Most Media Coverage Of Anti-Semitism Focuses On The Left, Study Finds
(JTA) — The majority of news coverage of anti-Semitism during the past year has spotlighted left-wing rhetoric as opposed to right-wing actions, according to a survey by Media Matters. The study found that 56 percent of news coverage of anti-Semitism in the 11 months following the October 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting focused on anti-Semitism coming…
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson, You’re Wrong About White Supremacy, Say Many Other Countries
In the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, international news outlets are pointing to white supremacist terrorism as the cause. Australia, for example: “US in the midst of a white nationalist terrorism crisis.” In 2018, the Anti-Defamation League found that “39 of the 50 killings committed by political extremists were carried out by…
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The Schmooze The Jussie Smollett Case Has Both Right And Left Calling Out Media Bias
How should the media report hate crimes and alleged hate crimes? How should media report alleged hate crimes that are now suspected hoaxes? And lastly, most dizzyingly, how should media report alleged hate crimes that are now suspected hoaxes when the hoax may, itself, be a hoax? In late January, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who…
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