Futurity

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Muslims and atheists in the United States are more likely than those of Christian faiths to experience religious discrimination, according to new research. In the study, which focused on public schools because they are government-run, community-facin

JOY Magazine

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Globally, there has been a major rise in hates crimes against Jews. The New York Police Department (NYPD) has seen an 83% spike, with City Council Speaker Corey Johnson stating recently, “Our residents should feel free to worship without fear–and yet

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES — More than 60 faculty members at USC have signed an open letter urging the university’s leadership to “publicly and explicitly rebuke” a student for several inflammatory comments she made online earlier in the year, including a tweet say

New Philosopher

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“Digital-age movements tend to be organisationally toothless, good at barking at power but bad at forcing ultimatums or chewing through complex negotiations. When the Gezi Park occupation intensified and the Turkish government expressed an interest i

BBC History Magazine

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In the early evening of 23 February 1820 a group of desperate men gathered in the hay loft above dilapidated stables in a dead end side street off London’s Edgware Road. Their intention was to kill the entire British cabinet as its members sat at din

The Atlantic

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On Sunday, a float rolled down the streets of Aalst, a Belgian town, for carnival. It featured two grotesque caricatures of Hasidic Jews, hooked noses, hands reaching out for money, and a rat sitting on money bags. That’s 2019. A second float, pictur

The Atlantic

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President Donald Trump obviously has no boundaries, let alone any understanding of historical tropes, but he really should not have roped the Jewish state into his latest Twitter tirade against four Democratic congresswomen (or, as he put it in his J

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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"Some of my best friends are Jews." That familiar, yet offensive, phrase has been used by some people as a defense against an accusation of anti-Semitism. It's time, however, to rebrand it as a positive affirmation of love and concern for the Jewish

The Critic Magazine

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TO UNDERSTAND OUr current moment, start with public apologies. Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, surely thought he was on safe ground when he came out in favour of delaying a Philip Guston exhibition because it included depictions of t

The Guardian

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I see the rage all around me, but painful emotions can coexist with activism – and millions of Americans are stepping up

History of War

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This book is controversial, but for good reasons. Manela looks at reactions to the end of World War I, and to Woodrow Wilson’s statement on national self-determination. He looks at a series of different people across the world, from Egypt to China, t

The Atlantic

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At least 10 people were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting Saturday morning. Must this nation worship only behind bars and guards?

The Atlantic

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The White House aide, under fire for alleged links to a right-wing Hungarian group, was a hit at the Jerusalem Post conference—and he’s had outside help.

Literary Hub

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As a child, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson recalled in a speech that he was the one in his family who wanted to read all the books in the house, who wore out his library card and kept books way past their due date. He dropped out

Farmer's Weekly

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You might have read, in media reports that have been circulating on social media these past few weeks, about the case of Western Cape farmer Ivan Cloete, a land reform beneficiary who was facing eviction from a farm he was previously granted access t

The Atlantic

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What our critics loved listening to, from music to podcasts. Plus: Increased anti-Semitism is changing how Jews express themselves in the West.

NZ Hunter

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Our winter hunting has been fairly eventful to say the least, and we have some interesting episodes coming up for you next season. Spring is just round the corner in the low country but don’t expect to see any signs of it for a month yet in the high

City Press

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As outrage grows over allegedly corrupt personal protective equipment (PPE) tenders, City Press can reveal that, in the Free State, they were not only handed to ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule’s sons, but also to a number of people who are his cl

The Christian Science Monitor

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Haaretz / JerusalemFear of ‘the other’ begets acts of hate “The massacre [Oct. 27] at the Conservative Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, in which at least 11 people were killed by a right-wing extremist, has been described as the most deadly atta

Post South Africa

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FROM his responses in the interview published in the POST (March 10-14), Krish Kumar’s inimitable character and philosophy shine through. Having been at the helm of the most important aspect of any municipality since the sudden death of his predecess

Australian Flying

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Delegates to the July Australian General Aviation Alliance (AGAA) summit at Wagga Wagga were infused with a new optimism in the wake of the event, not because of what politicians said, but because of the summit itself. For the first time that most of

NPR

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Pending further investigation, Mayor Steven Fulop refrained from assigning a specifically anti-Semitic motive in the shooting Tuesday that left six people dead, including one police officer.

TIME

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WHEN 21 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS across the U.S. received bomb threats on Feb. 27, the JCC staff in Rockville, Md., knew what to do: notify the authorities and confirm the evacuation routes. The group’s national office had immediately alerted all its

Chicago Tribune

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I’m a huge sports fan. And while I have a particular penchant for my hometown Chicago teams, I’ll tune in to any big game. For me, sports provide the unscripted drama that supersedes the latest Netflix binge. Watching an underdog college basketball t

Edge

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Frank Zappa once asked, as the title of a 1986 live album, Does Humor Belong In Music? He meant the question as an ironic ventriloquy of his critics, implying an answer in the affirmative. Today, by contrast, a vocal subset of the geekerati is asking

Union of Concerned Scientists

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Africa Day celebrates independence, freedom from colonialism, and looking forwards to a peacful and thriving future in the 55 African Union nations. This year’s theme is “Arts, Culture and Heritage” and UCS is helping to raise up climate change in th

NPR

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The Anti-Defamation League counts 541 attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions so far in 2017. The advocacy organization says attacks also rose in 2016 by 34 percent.

India Today

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PUMDEE GAMLIN, 20 ITANAGAR BA English (Hons), Hansraj College, Delhi India as a country has always fascinated the outside world. I hope India in the future continues to do so, and for good reasons. I hope India is able to acknowledge, appreciate and

Farmer's Weekly

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There has been a clear shift of tone in government debates with regard to agricultural matters in the past three years. Debates are increasingly based on reason, as illustrated by the growing rationality in the engagement between the private sector a

NPR

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The gunman who held four people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, is now dead, authorities said. The four hostages were physically unharmed.