57 76 Facebook the year in review Vicky Escobar and Romi Charur were married at a synagogue in Argentina. continued from page 103 support of David Duke after earlier claiming he knew nothing about the former Ku Klux Klan leader’s views. In response, the Anti-Defamation League announces it will be providing all presidential candidates with informa- tion about hate groups so they can bet- ter determine which endorsements to accept and reject. MARCH 2016 Jewish comedian Garry Shandling dies in Los Angeles at 66. Shandling wrote for several sitcoms before starring in his own shows, including The Larry Sanders Show, which aired on HBO in the 1990s and earned Shandling 18 Emmy Award nominations. Venice launches a yearlong com- memoration of the 500th anniver- sary of the world’s first official Jewish ghetto. Among the many events sched- uled for the anniversary is an appear- ance by Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who pre- sides over a mock trial of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender character from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Microsoft pulls its artificial intel- ligence tweeting robot after it posts several anti-Semitic comments. The software company had launched the so-called chatbot as an experiment but quickly paused the endeavor after the controversial tweets, several of which expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler. A Pew study of Israelis finds that 48 percent of the country’s Jews agree that Arabs should be “expelled or transferred” out of the country. The finding, the most shocking in a wide- ranging study of Israeli attitudes, is based on interviews with 5,600 Israelis conducted between October 2014 and May 2015. Israeli leaders condemn the actions of a solider caught on video fatally shooting an injured Palestinian terrorist who was lying on the ground. “What happened today in Hebron does not represent the values of the IDF,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says fol- lowing the release of the video, shot by the human rights group B’Tselem. The soldier is charged with manslaughter in May and later goes on trial. Thousands of delegates attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference in Washington, featuring appearances by most contenders for the presidency — most controversially Donald Trump, who sparks much talk of protests and walkouts in the days leading up to the conclave. Speaking the morning after Trump’s address to the gathering, AIPAC President Lillian Pinkus issues a rare apology for Trump’s attacks on President Barack Obama, saying the group is “deeply disappointed that so many people applauded a sentiment that we neither agree with or con- done.” Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and John Kasich also address the confer- ence, while Bernie Sanders issues a written statement to the group from the campaign trail. Merrick Garland, the chief of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is nominated to replace Antonin Scalia, who died in February, on the Supreme Court. In his accep- tance speech, Garland emotionally recalls his grandparents who had fled anti-Semitism for better lives in the United States. Republicans vow not to consider his nomination during President Obama’s last year in office. Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, is the world’s richest Jew, according to Forbes. The magazine’s annual list of the world’s billionaires shows Zuckerberg surpass- ing Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to claim the top spot among Jews. 2 APRIL 2016 Days ahead of the New York primary, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton engage in a heated exchange over Israel at a debate in Brooklyn, with 4 the Vermont senator accusing the former secretary of state of neglecting the Palestinians and reiterating his charge that Israel used disproportion- ate force in Gaza in 2014. Clinton says she worked hard to bring peace to the region as secretary of state. Clinton won the primary in New York, home to the country’s largest Jewish population, 58-42 percent. A majority of professors at Oberlin College sign a letter condemning the “anti-Semitic Facebook posts” by a fel- low faculty member. The letter, signed by 174 professors, does not name Joy Karega, the rhetoric and composition 5 professor whose posts, including one accusing Israel and “Rothschild-led bankers” of responsibility for downing an airliner over Ukraine in 2014, drew widespread attention. Bernie Sanders suspends his Jewish outreach director after revela- tions of social media posts that used profanity to describe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Simone Zimmerman, a former activist with 6 J Street, reportedly called Netanyahu a “manipulative asshole,” though she later changed the expletive to “politi- cian.” The first same-sex Jewish wedding ceremony in Latin America is held at a synagogue in Argentina. Some 300 guests attend the wedding of Victoria Escobar and Romina Charur at the NCI Emanu El Temple in Buenos Aires. continued on page 106 104 September 29 • 2016 1 3 1: The main square of the Venetian Ghetto. 2: Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in 2016. 3: Merrick Garland is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in March. Republicans refuse to give him a hearing. 4: Microsoft pulls its artificial intelligence tweeting robot after it posts several anti-Semitic comments. 5: Israeli soldiers remove the body of a Palestinian man who stabbed a soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron, March 24, 2016. 6: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton engage in a heated exchange over Israel at a debate in Brooklyn.