Published by DPA India has recorded more coronavirus-related deaths in one day than ever before: in the past 24 hours, 3,780 people had died, India’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Confirmed new infections reached 382,000 in India in the same period, which means that in absolute numbers, India is the country most affected by the
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International
Published by Reuters By Guy Faulconbridge EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) -The Scottish National Party’s bid to win a clear mandate for having another independence referendum was balanced on a knife edge on the eve of Thursday’s parliamentary election, with polls showing the expected result was too close to call. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly
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International
Published by DPA Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has tasked the former opposition leader Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid (Future) party with forming a coalition, the presidential office said on Wednesday. The move was expected after caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so following inconclusive elections in March. Earlier, Rivlin held talks with
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Middle East
Published by Al-Araby A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once — after only expecting seven, according to Mali’s Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born. It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once.
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International
This poetic text of this week’s Haftorah reading indicates Jeremiah’s commitment to God, despite his failures to successfully correct Judea’s wayward behaviors. The background is the coming destruction of the Southern Kingdom and Solomon’s Temple, with exile of their leaders by Babylon. Jeremiah’s prophesy career is experienced as repeated rejection. [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
On Tuesday, May 4, the San Diego State University Senate passed a resolution urging SDSU President Adela de la Torre and the administration to begin the process of changing the university’s mascot. The resolution passed 53-9 with 10 abstentions. It calls for the creation of a commission, chaired by the university Tribal Liaison Dr. Jacob Alvarado Waipuk, who is a member of the San Pasqual Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. [Brenden Tuccinardi, SDSU Daily Aztec]
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
Published by The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A white supremacist who killed three people at Jewish sites in Overland Park, Kansas, in 2014 has died in prison, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. F. Glenn Miller Jr., convicted of capital murder in 2015, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.
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USA
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The former leader of a US neo-Nazi group was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Tuesday for waging a campaign to intimidate journalists and racial and religious minorities. John Cameron Denton, 27, of Montgomery, Texas, was convicted of carrying out dozens of “swatting” attacks across the United States
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USA
Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked Congress on Tuesday to provide more funding for investigating and prosecuting domestic terrorism, saying it poses an “accelerating” threat that keeps him up at night. Garland, who had served as a federal appellate judge and federal prosecutor before President Joe Biden nominated him
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USA
Published by Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu’s deadline for forming a new Israeli government expired early on Wednesday, with the country’s longest-serving prime minister having failed to break more than two years of political deadlock. There was also no guarantee that, after the conservative incumbent was unable to assemble a new
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Middle East
Vice President Kamala Harris is making a mistake by declining to visit the U.S.-Mexico border, but not for the reason that Republican critics may think. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, USA
As this third book of the Torah, the middle book, comes to an end, we are given nechemta, with a hopeful view of future generations. The parasha tells us, “If you follow My statutes and observe My commandments and perform them, I will give you rains in their time, the Land will yield its produce, and the tree of the field will give forth its fruit. Your threshing will last until the vintage…and I will grant peace in the Land…You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you…” [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
The recently deceased scholar Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz who authored sixty books and hundreds of articles is the author of the 549-page book Reference Guide to the Talmud: The Indispensable Talmud Study Aid. It is one of his five new books published by Maggid Books. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
South Africa’s apartheid laws mandated Black South Africans to use separate, often inferior facilities like public restrooms, public transport, beaches, schools, et cetera. B’Tselem claims that a comparable system of inequality exists between Arabs and Jews, both within Israel proper and the disputed territories of the West Bank and Gaza. This is simply false. [Benjamin Zaghi]
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA