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Fast Forward He racked up millions of likes for being a proud gay Haredi. Then he was outed as a fake.
‘I'm extremely upset that he is falsely portraying an experience without the nuance of living it,’ one person commented
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Culture Reddit is destroying users’ ability to moderate hate speech — so protesters shut the site down
A subreddit blackout is in progress, protesting site changes that could open the door to antisemitism and other forms of hate
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Culture Why is the IDF promoting its Gaza operation like a Marvel movie?
The Israeli military is trying to leverage superhero associations for its brand
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Fast Forward Why were ads for Netflix’s online store appearing on Holocaust denial videos?
Despite video platform Rumble's rules against antisemitism, videos denying the Holocaust have appeared there
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News Chabad women come together once a year in person. The rest of the time, there’s Instagram.
Instagram is playing an increasingly significant and versatile role in the lives of Chabad’s women emissaries
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Culture Twitter re-platformed extremists — and it’s paying off in ad money
Turns out that extremism draws clicks, and clicks mean ad dollars
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Fast Forward European Jewish student group sues Twitter over its handling of antisemitism and Holocaust denial
The student group aims to leverage Germany’s laws against Holocaust denial to force Twitter to enforce its own policies
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Fast Forward Notorious bigot Nick Fuentes suspended from Twitter a day after being reinstated
Fuentes became more prominent after befriending Kanye West and dining with Donald Trump
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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News They texted about Torah and mitzvahs. Feds say they were insider trading
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Opinion I run The Jewish Theological Seminary. Here’s the real story about President Isaac Herzog speaking at our commencement
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News Middlebury College Hillel votes to rebrand, distancing from parent group on Israel
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