Jake Wasserman

Oct 28, 2024 | forward.com | Jake Wasserman

As I walked toward the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial site on a fall day recently, I passed a campaign poster that read, " ES IST ZEIT für ein Land ohne Denkverbote! " - "It is time for a state without bans on thinking."History, they say, doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes, and here was evidence.

Apr 17, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Jake Wasserman

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Apr 17, 2024 | forward.com | Jake Wasserman

Students at Rutgers, the flagship public university in New Jersey, have voted overwhelmingly to call on the administration to divest from companies and organizations that do business in Israel, and to end a partnership with Tel Aviv University.

Dec 7, 2023 | medium.com | Jake Wasserman

This past summer, at the Online News Association conference in Philadelphia, I watched a panel called “The Role of News in Combating Extremism Recruiting,” which focused on how journalists have struggled to cover extremism effectively in the United States. I, too, struggled to effectively cover extremism, accidentally amplifying a neo-Nazi group in the process of breaking news on Twitter (when it was still Twitter) earlier this year.

Sep 28, 2023 | forward.com | Jake Wasserman |Irene Connelly

Editor's note: With the 2023 High Holidays upon us, we're refreshing and republishing older stories about the holiday season for readers to enjoy with updated information. This story was originally published on October 7, 2019. After the honey-highs of Rosh Hashanah and the hunger pains of Yom Kippur, you might think it's time to take a pause on Jewish holidays - but you'd be wrong.