Why it’s so hard to take hate sites off the internet By Arno Rosenfeld, Forward May 19, 2022 After a white supremacist allegedly gunned down 10 African-Americans at a Buffalo grocery store Saturday, two of the social media websites he used to plan and promote the attack — Twitch and Discord — announced quick action in response. The 18-year-old suspect identified by police appeared to have used Twitch to livestream a video of the shooting as it… Read More
U.S. The Christian voice behind a Jewish anti-abortion group After the Supreme Court agreed to hear the abortion case that is now roiling the nation, one of the groups that weighed in was a small nonprofit called… By Louis Keene, Forward May 19, 2022
U.S. Q&A: Buffalo’s Jewish community responds to mass shooting A mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y. killed 10 and wounded three, and opened a national conversation about the insidiousness of… By Rudy Malcom, Forward May 18, 2022
U.S. More than 1,000 Jews rally in DC to support abortion rights As it was originally conceived over the last year, the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice was meant to be a powerful closing ceremony for the National… By Julia Gergely, JTA May 17, 2022
U.S. In effort to seize Russian assets, the US takes a page from Chabad When the U.S. government announced that it would seek to seize the assets of VEB, Russia’s main development bank, a lawyer for the Chabad Hasidic movement… By Asaf Shalev, JTA May 17, 2022
U.S. National Council of Jewish Women creates Jewish abortion fund In the 1920s, the National Council of Jewish Women helped establish the first 10 birth control clinics in the United States, which later became Planned… By Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA May 17, 2022
Politics Joe Biden won’t budge on this make-or-break Iran deal issue An extraordinary debate took place recently in the Senate about whether the United States should remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps from its… By Ron Kampeas, JTA May 16, 2022
U.S. All about the antisemitic ideology behind the Buffalo shooting The man charged with killing 10 people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket Saturday allegedly was motivated by a conspiracy theory that has spurred recent… By Philissa Cramer, Ron Kampeas, JTA May 16, 2022
Religion Some Conservative rabbis are flouting the intermarriage ban Dario Feiguin, a rabbi for nearly 40 years, recently officiated at his first interfaith wedding — a practice forbidden by the Conservative movement that… By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, Forward May 13, 2022