Fifty animators and producers responsible for the character of Batman in various productions over the years signed a petition calling on Qatar and Egypt, two mediators in hostage talks, to push for …
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4/17/24
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The daily dilemma: You see a post on social media about Israel that is egregiously misleading, and you have to decide whether it is worth it to respond.
•On the one hand, there is an …
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By Marc Erlbaum
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1/17/24
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With the realization that the social-media pen is mighty like the sword, Yalla Israel brings social-media influencers to Israel to experience the Jewish state firsthand. The hope is that the …
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By Mike Wagenheim, JNS
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1/17/24
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Here’s an excerpt from one of several tweets promoting or inciting violence against Jews that, according to a March 2023 report from the Anti-Defamation League, Twitter (now called X) declined …
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By David Suissa
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9/13/23
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Rabbi Mendel Kaplan still remembers the day in 2016 after morning prayers when congregants were talking about a woman, whose video of herself laughing while wearing a Chewbacca mask had …
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By Dave Gordon, JNS
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8/23/23
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When Emily Austin, a 22-year-old Israeli-American social-media influencer and sports broadcaster, viewed humanitarian work underway in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer last month, lots of …
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By Bradley Martin, JNS
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6/14/23
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In a sudden about-face, Ye — née Kanye West — claims to have rescinded his vitriolic antisemitic views after watching Jewish actor Jonah Hill in the 2012 action comedy “21 …
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3/29/23
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Adriana Fernandez laughs when she recounts how she got it wrong when it came to understanding what “kosher” means.
“I used to think it was just that you couldn’t …
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By Alan Zeitlin, JNS
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12/7/22
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At a moment of sharply rising anti-Semitism, a Jewish social media star known for her dance videos is getting deadly serious.
Montana Tucker’s 10-part docu-series, “How to: Never Forget,” has drawn millions …
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By Mike Wagenheim of JNS, with The Jewish Star
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11/9/22
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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s appointment of Noa Tishby as the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and Delegitimization of Israel raised more than a …
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By Ruthie Blum
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6/1/22
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