Weekly Since 1924 $40 PER YEAR WITHIN MONROE COUNTY, $42 OUTSIDE COUNTY/SEASONAL 70¢ PER ISSUE n VOL. XCVII, NO. 47 n ROCHESTER, N.Y. n IYAR 13, 5780 n MAY 7, 2020 Founder of Craigslist For Teens Struggling in the Gives ADL $1 Million to Coronavirus Era, Jewish Tackle Online Hate Speech Groups Extend a Lifeline (JNS) — The Jewish billion- aire philanthropist and founder BY ALIX WALL of the website Craigslist gave a Makayla Wigder, a high $1 million grant to the Anti-Def- school senior from Houston, amation League to support its had been looking forward to the efforts to detect, expose and prom, graduation and one last counter online hate speech, the summer with her friends before ADL announced on Tuesday. leaving for college. The two-year grant from Then came the coronavirus Craig Newmark, 67, who has pandemic. Now those plans an estimated $1.3 billion net Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and na- appear highly unlikely to ma- worth, will directly aid the work tional director of the Anti-Defama- terialize. (Craigslist — Page 4) tion League. (ADL) “It’s just devastating,” Wigder lamented. “Graduation is some- thing we’ve worked toward for Bank Hapoalim Fined $904 the past 12 years. Finishing With teenagers unable to participate in in-person get-togethers, like this without a sense of closure is pre-pandemic event organized by 4Front Baltimore, a Jewish teen engage- Million Over US Clients’ just really disappointing.” ment initiative, Jewish groups are making extra efforts to reach out and With much of America under engage with Jewish teens. (Courtesy of JCC Baltimore) Tax Evasion, FIFA Scandal lockdown, the struggles of the sick, the elderly and those with seemingly less urgent or depression in ordinary times tasked with helping them are needs — such as teens, many — are also at greater risk of front and center. But even those of whom struggle with anxiety (Lifeline — Page 10) Young Jews Are Falling in Love During the Pandemic — Without Having Met in Person BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — A week and a half A Bank Hapoalim branch in Jerusalem on Jan. 13, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90) ago, Josephine Stockwell had her first date with Nathan, a Israel’s Bank Hapoalim has bribery affair that shook FIFA, guy she had been texting for settled a case brought against the world soccer federation. some time. it by U.S. authorities for assist- Under the deal seeking to The two really hit it off. They ing U.S.-based clients to evade settle claims addressing actions both speak Spanish, love ro- taxes and involvement in a (Fined — Page 4) mantic comedies and relate to Judaism in similar ways. They wound up talking for two and Cyber Spies Target Labs Seeking a half hours. “I don’t even have the words to Decode Corona’s Secrets to describe what that was like because I’ve never had that People are making connections online as they practice social distanc- (Falling in Love — Page 13) ing. (Grace Yagel) Making Jewish Traditions Work for You Doesn’t Have to Be an Emergency Approach. BY ROBERTA ROSENTHAL KWALL causing a paradigm shift for from across the world to par- “We’re absolutely determined to defeat coronavirus, and also to defeat those CHICAGO (JTA) — I thought everyone, instead I am spend- ticipate. It also struck me that trying to exploit the situation for their own nefarious ends,” Britain’s top I was going to be spending this ing my time mastering the finer making lemonade out of lemons diplomat says. (Getty Images) spring promoting my new book, points of Zoom technology so I is exactly what the Jewish peo- which articulates a distinct vi- can teach my students online. ple have been doing for most BY NETA BAR sion for Judaism that illustrates It wasn’t lost on me that of our existence, dating back Hackers have been trying to how people can deepen their this technology allowed me to to the birth of the Jewish legal undercut Western efforts to find connection to Judaism by per- make lemonade out of lemons system created by the rabbis in a vaccine for the coronavirus forming selected rituals consis- by doing a virtual launch of the aftermath of the destruction with a series of cyberattacks tently and attaching a personal “Remix Judaism: Preserving of the Second Temple. targeting universities, phar- meaning to them. 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