Avi Shafran
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Dastardly Digital Deception // Deepfakes come to Gaza
13 Dec 2023
The article discusses the prevalence of deepfakes, which are digitally manipulated images or videos, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Ga...
13 Dec 2023
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All the Narishkeit Unfit to Print // Academic ignorance is a thing
13 Sep 2023
The New York Times published a correction after inaccurately characterizing Yiddish speakers as monolingual in an article. The academic who wrote the article...
13 Sep 2023
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Sorry, Media // Distaste isn’t license to Slander
6 Sep 2023
The article discusses the backlash faced by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir after he made a statement regarding restrictions on Palestinia...
6 Sep 2023
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Surprise! Another Side to the Story // Jumpy journalists could use summer school
30 Aug 2023
In this article, the author discusses two incidents where the media reported allegations against Orthodox Jews without verifying the facts. In the first inci...
30 Aug 2023
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A Nazi’s Revealing Order // There are railcars and there are railcars
23 Aug 2023
In 1942, over 265,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were transported to their deaths in Treblinka, while an additional 35,000 were killed inside the ghetto. A re...
23 Aug 2023
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Of Judaism, but Not in It
22 Aug 2023
This article discusses the contrasting attitudes towards Judaism of two Jewish physicists, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Isidor Rabi. While Oppenheimer was not a...
22 Aug 2023
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A Safer Space for Women in Orthodox Judaism’s Rules for Sex
17 Oct 2018
The text discusses the #MeToo movement's impact on societal attitudes towards the treatment of women, highlighting the prevalence of sexual abuse and objecti...
17 Oct 2018