Giornalismo e fact-checking, un appuntamento con Simone Somekh

NEW YORK, 1 febbraio 2021—Lunedì 8 febbraio alle 19:00, in diretta sulla pagina Facebook dell’Unione Giovani Ebrei Italiani (UGEI), Simone Somekh terrà un workshop di un’ora sul tema del fact-checking nell’era digitale. Modera Daphne Zelnick.

Giornalista a New York e autore del romanzo Grandangolo, Simone Somekh parlerà di fake news, acchiappaclick, deepfake e altri metodi di disinformazione utilizzati sul web, ed introdurrà alcuni strumenti utilizzati nelle redazioni giornalistiche per la verifica di fatti, foto e video.

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In libreria “Fase 1”, raccolta di testimonianze sulla pandemia

NEW YORK, 4 gennaio 2021—È uscito nelle librerie italiane “Fase 1”, volume bilingue che raccoglie memorie e testimonianze sul Covid-19 edito da Acquario Libri.

Nel libro, più di 60 scrittori, artisti e intellettuali italiani hanno catturato ciascuno in poche parole l’istante in cui tutto è cambiato e la pandemia ha preso il sopravvento sulle nostre vite. La raccolta include anche la testimonianza dello scrittore e giornalista Simone Somekh, che ha narrato la sua esperienza a New York.

“Fase 1”, pubblicato sia in italiano che in inglese, è acquistabile nelle migliori librerie italiane o sul sito internet di Acquario Libri.

Tobia Zevi is a rising star in Rome’s Jewish community. Can he become the city’s next mayor?

Tobia Zevi is a rising star in Rome’s Jewish community. Can he become the city’s next mayor?

(JTA) — Tobia Zevi is candid: He wants to become the next mayor of Rome. “I’ve dreamed of becoming mayor of my city my entire life,” he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an interview. “For years, I’ve been thinking about how to transform it and make it more liveable for its residents and more attractive for its tourists.”

If he succeeds, he is set to make history, becoming the second-ever Jewish mayor of the Italian capital, the first in over a century.

The 36-year-old, who has been involved in both local and national politics for 15 years, announced this summer his run for the capital’s mayoral primary in 2021. Since the announcement, he has gained momentum in the crowded field thanks to a series of high-profile newspaper interviews and social media posts. Over the summer, Zevi took advantage of the city’s relatively low infection rate to start campaigning, after the country was severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic in the spring. Continue reading…

Online Teaching: Challenges and Experiences

In March, when the university I work for in New York City decided to suspend all in-person classes and transition online, I worried about the challenges that I was going to face as a professor.

After months of online teaching, I’ve gathered some of the strategies that in my experience have helped me involve the students and not lose too many elements of in-person lectures. Read the full article here.

What American Jews can learn from my Italian Jewish community’s response to the coronavirus

What American Jews can learn from my Italian Jewish community’s response to the coronavirus

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Italian people’s first reaction to the coronavirus was to have a good laugh. Not because they didn’t believe the virus was a real issue, but because that’s just how we like to process big changes in my home country.

By Feb. 23, there were 152 confirmed cases in Italy. Yet many people were still skeptical, assuming the virus was probably no different than the regular flu.