Bronx County Bar Association hosts ‘How to Become a Judge’
Bronx Jewish Center community Shabbat dinner Aug. 2nd
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Action
Association
The Bronx County Bar Association
hosted ‘How to Become
a Judge in the Bronx’
panel discussion on Thursday,
June 13.
The panel was moderated
by Justice Doris M. Gonzalez,
who is the Administrative
Judge for civil matters
in Bronx County Supreme
Court.
Justice Gonzalez kept the
panel members engaged and
they provided invaluable information
about the elected/
appointed route to the large
group of attorneys that attended.
A handout was also provided
with specifi c information
regarding where to apply,
eligibility requirements,
etc.
The panel was held in
Room 819 of the Bronx County
Courthouse, 851 Grand Concourse.
The event was co-sponsored
by the New York City
Bar Association.
(L-r) Westchester County First Deputy District Attorney Victor Olds, Esq., Hon. George Villegas (Supreme Court), Administrative Judge Hon. Doris M.
Gonzalez (Supreme Court), Bronx District Attorney Hon. Darcel D. Clark, Hon. Fiordaliza A. Rodriguez (Bronx Family Court), Hon. John Higgitt (Court
of Claims) and Hon. Marissa Soto (Civil Court). Photo courtesy of Hon. Fiordaliza A. Rodriguez
Join the Bronx Jewish
Center for its next community
Shabbat dinner at the
Bronx Jewish Center, 1969
Haight Avenue,to be held on
Friday, August 2 , starting at
7 p.m.
The special theme for that
evening will be ‘Shabbat
in Egypt.’ Yes, that’s right -
Eqypt.
All of your favorite Egyptian
style dishes will take
center stage.
Enjoy a delicious fourcourse
dinner with your fellow
neighbors. Turn your
Friday night Shabbat into
an evening of spiritual awakening,
inspiration, Jewish
songs, and culinary delight.
If you plan to attend, RSVP
to (718) 812-1701. Shabbat dinners
are held the fi rst Friday
of every month.
“No, it isn’t all about the
food,” said Rabbi Pewzner
of the Bronx Jewish Center.
“What is important is that
the entire community joins
together and welcomes the
start of the Shabbat . It will
be a beautiful time for everyone.
Please join us. We look
foward to welcoming you.”
BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
Twitter says a new version
of its popular site is about to be
launched. It will not, of course,
address the organization’s rampant
left wing bias and censorship
of all other political views.
The latest example of Twitter’s
extremism came as President
Trump convened a social
media summit to discuss the
censorship of conservatives
began. The social media giant
mysteriously went off-line
during the event, cutting the
live feed. The incident follows
the extraordinary revelation
by Project Veritas via a stealth
video proving that Google
plans to use its service to meddle
in the 2020 election to prevent
Trump’s re-election.
The open bias of Google,
Twitter and Facebook has
been evident for some time. In
an exclusive interview on the
Vernuccio/Novak Report this
month, political analyst Josh
Bernstein urged nonleftists to
work together to address the
glaring censorship crisis. The
call is not new.
Brad Parscale, writing
in USA Today, stated that
“Google, YouTube and other
tech giants fi lter, suppress
and even directly attack conservatives.
This must stop to
protect our free and open society…
Americans must be wary
of powerful institutions that
seek to control what we see and
hear. As the internet has become
an increasingly central
part of modern life, Big Tech giants
such as Facebook, Twitter
and Google have increasingly
sought to become the gatekeepers
of the internet and political
discourse. Without any sort
of democratic mandate, these
companies have appointed
themselves the arbiters of acceptable
thought, discussion
and searches online… During
the 2016 presidential campaign,
Google was accused of
manipulating search results
to favor Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.
Also, research at Harvard
University found that
Google’s search rankings are
not objective, and in 2017, the
company was fi ned billions of
dollars by the European Union
for manipulating search results.
Google also maintains at
least nine shadowy blacklists
that affect what the public sees
when using its search engine.”
The internet research organization
Can I Rank reports
that Google “search results
were almost 40% more likely
to contain pages with a ‘Left’
or ‘Far Left’ slant…Moreover,
16% of political keywords contained
no right-leaning pages
at all within the fi rst page of
results…the Google algorithm
itself may make it easier for
sites with a left-leaning or centrist
viewpoint to rank higher
in Google search results compared
to sites with a politically
conservative viewpoint.”
The issue began to garner
an even greater degree of note
when, as reported by Lifesite
“Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Ajit
Pai scolded Twitter…for censoring
conservative users of its
platform…’ The company has a
viewpoint…and uses that viewpoint
to discriminate…to say
the least, the company appears
to have a double standard when
it comes to suspending or deverifying
conservative users’
accounts as opposed to those of
liberal users…’”
Even some Facebook staff
have rebelled against this.
According to a Daily Mail report
Facebook engineer Brian
Amerige has described the
company’s ‘political intolerance’
and the threats against
employees who don’t go along
with leftist ideology.
Robert Epstein, writing in
U.S. News, states that “Google,
Inc., isn’t just the world’s biggest
purveyor of information; it
is also the world’s biggest censor.
The company maintains at
least nine different blacklists
that impact our lives, generally
without input or authority from
any outside advisory group, industry
association or government
agency. Google is not the
only company suppressing content
on the internet. Reddit has
frequently been accused of banning
postings on specifi c topics,
and a recent report suggests
that Facebook has been deleting
conservative news stories
from its newsfeed, a practice
that might have a signifi cant
effect on public opinion – even
on voting. Google, though, is
currently the biggest bully on
the block.”
No one should feel comfortable
allowing any entity,
whether a government or a
corporation, the power to censor
free speech. In their exceptional
dominance of the web,
companies such as Google,
Twitter and Facebook have unprecedented
and monopolistic
power, and the ability to shape
the outcome of elections.