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The Jews of the Internet, Emanuel School
This was a talk to a combined year 9 Jewish Studies group at Emanuel School. It was part of a speaking tour organized by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. This talk gave an introduction to both the advances Jews had made to the internet, and to issues of racism and discrimination students faced. In […]
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Naaseh venishma: making a difference online while learning, Emanuel School
This talk was to year 12 students and staff and took place at lunch time to a packed audience. It was part of a lecture series organised by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. The talk examined campus issues in depth as well as discussing uses of new media for education in the class room.
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Antisemitism 2.0 and Online Engagement: University Challenege, Masada College
This was a presentation to year 11 students at Masada College. The talk was part of a speaking tour organized by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. This talk focused on issues on campus including student politics, union motions against Israel, and the connection between the internet and campus hostility. The talk also promoted the […]
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Antisemitism 2.0 and Online Engagement: Jewish anti-Zionist sites, Kesser Torah College
This was a presentation to years 10 and 11 at Kesser Torah College, a religious school in Sydney. The talk was part of a speaking tour organized by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. This talk focused on an examination of religious anti-zionist sites and the harm some of them were doing when they aligned […]
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The Battle of Ideas & Online Israel Activism, World Union of Jewish Students
This talk was presented to Israeli students training with WUJS. It involved two separate presentations, the first on the Leading Role of NGOs in the “Durban Strategy”, in the lead up to Durban II, and the second on Online Israel Activism and Defending Israel and the Jewish People in Web 2.0. Advice for personal engagements […]
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Is there a problem officer? Lies, dangers and hate on the information superhighway, AJC
This talk was developed by myself and Avigail Sugerman. Avigail later delivered it to a school audience. The talk includes discussion of the AJC competition “My Israel” which was attacked and the competition website later hacked. In 24 hours the site had almost 800,000 hits – and in the last hours it tipped 1 million […]
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Internet advocacy, Union of Jewish Students of the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2006
A presentation of the online advocacy session as part of the Advanced Political and Educational Training seminar for the Union of Jewish Students of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Internet Advocacy, Winter Conference of the Australian Union of Jewish Students, 2005
A presentation to AUJS winter camp on Internet advocacy and online threats. The presentation included a run down of some of the non-internet threats faced by Jewish students in the UK, and comparison with some of the issues faced on campus in Australia, particularly at the ANU.