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Books Who’s afraid of Naomi Wolf? Naomi Klein’s newest book takes on her doppelganger
Naomi Wolf and Naomi Klein are opposites, yet often confused; their case of mistaken identity — and Israel — is behind Klein's new book
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Opinion As we approach the High Holidays, I’m making amends for my smartphone addiction
I'm doing teshuva for choosing screens over faces
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News The ADL called for advertisers to boycott Twitter. Now it’s advertising on Twitter.
The civil rights group called for advertisers to 'pause' spending last fall over concerns that the platform was failing to address hateful content, but says the boycott was always meant to be temporary
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Culture On Twitter, Nazis have free speech — but Elon Musk’s critics face censorship
Twitter's parent company has threatened a defamation suit against a nonprofit researching the rise of hate speech on the platform
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BINTEL BRIEF An online friend didn’t realize their remark was antisemitic — but didn’t apologize. Am I wrong to want more?
Understanding has to cut both ways, but it's hard to figure out what that looks like
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Culture There was a mass exodus to Threads. Is Jewish Twitter staying behind?
For all its flaws, Twitter still seems superior to its rivals when it comes to building community
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Culture Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads app be a decentralized utopia or just another antisemitic hell?
The Twitter competitor app is part of the fediverse, a decentralized type of social media that is becoming popuar
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg’s Star Wars bar mitzvah, Yom Kippur apology and other Jewish things about the Meta CEO
With his new app Threads, the tech titan is in the news again. Here a few things to know about his background and what he’s said about being Jewish
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