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Daily Archives: August 21, 2017

Civil War monuments: when the South reversed the results of the war

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o most people, this is all a matter of sentimental nostalgia. Not to the South and not to the people who relish the Confederacy. Not to the people who were enslaved by the South. Yet what is...

Barcelona attacker killed by Spanish security forces

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Younes Abouyaaqoub, the 22-year-old believed to had been the driver in Thursday's deadly van attack in La Rambla Boulevard, Barcelona, was reportedly shot and killed by Spanish securiy forces on Monday, this according to...

Judaism and the Solar Eclipse

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There will be a solar eclipse on August 21, which will be visible across parts of the United States for the first time since 1918. Solar eclipses occur when the moon blocks the rays of...

The dark political history of American anti-Semitism

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When hundreds of white supremacists bearing torches and giving the Nazi salute descended upon the University of Virginia’s campus on August 11, they began a chant that would have been entirely unrecognizable to the...

New Torah scroll for Baton Rouge’s Jewish community

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A Torah originally commissioned in Eastern Europe before World War II was rededicated Sunday evening to Chabad of Baton Rouge. After an almost year-long search, the Torah scroll, which comprises the Five Books of Moses,...

Ivanka Trump praises counter-protesters after demonstrations

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Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's eldest daughter and a senior adviser to her father, praised counter- protesters in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and her father's recent controversial remarks, which sparked a wave of...

Israeli Police stop soccer game on Temple Mount only after Jews’ request

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Israeli Temple Mount policemen stopped on Sunday Arab kids from playing soccer on the Temple Mount only after they were requested to do it by one of the Jewish visitors to the holy site,...

Ce que l’on sait des attentats de Barcelone et Cambrils

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Une fourgonnette a foncé dans la foule sur les Ramblas, artère emblématique de la ville espagnole de Barcelone, jeudi 17 août, faisant au moins 13 morts et plus d’une centaine de blessés, dont une...

Living With A Virtual Ghost

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Recently, on an interview for National Public Radio in the United States, a man was explaining how he had done his own extensive interviews with his father, before the latter passed away.  He then...