Retinitis Pigmentosa Research Probes Role of the Enzyme DHDDS in This Genetic Disease – Newswise
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Bret Stephens: What The Times Got Wrong – The New York Times
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Acting editorial page editor Kathleen Kingsbury wrote about the decision to publish our writers responses to the Tom Cotton Op-Ed in Fridays edition of our Opinion Today newsletter.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What concerts, festivals and shows have been rescheduled, canceled. (June 12, 2020) – NJ.com
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There may be few places to go, but there certainly are many places to visit online, that is as stay-at-home entertainment choices continue to populate the internet. Maria Rodriquez is shown in a promo video for the Woodbridge-based Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre's "Feria de Sevilla" to take place online 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14.Courtesy of Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre BYOC -- brandish your own castanets
After Liberal Zionism, the One Hope for a Democratic Israel – The New York Review of Books
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Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty ImagesLeader of the Arab-Israeli Joint List parliamentary group Ayman Odeh attending a protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel, March 23, 2020 A remarkable thing happened in the Knesset, Israels parliament, on April 21, as the assembly was marking the countrys Holocaust Memorial Day. Mansour Abbas, a Knesset member of the Joint List, the bloc of Arab-Israeli parties, took the podium and delivered a speech commemorating the Holocausts Jewish victims. As a religious Palestinian and a Muslim Arab, he said, I have empathy for the pain and suffering over the years of Holocaust survivors and the families of the murdered.
Kohrman reflects on 24 years as Myers Foundation president – Cleveland Jewish News
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Interfaith Alliance and Jewish Federation to host Fighting Hate Online ZOOM event on June 25 – City-sentinel
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City and The Interfaith Alliance of Oklahoma will host Fighting Hate Online, a ZOOM event scheduled for June 25 at 7 p.m.
Police Officers Linked To Extremist Group – CBS Chicago
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CHICAGO (CBS) Serious concerns have been raised over Illinois police officers with ties to right wing extremist groups. CBS 2s Charlie De Mar investigated whether the officers believes in conspiracy theories affect their police work. Meantime the Chicago Police Department and COPA are investigating a Chicago officer spotted wearing an extremist face mask while working a protest last weekend
Will the Black Lives Matter movement finally put an end to Confederate flags and statues? – The Register-Guard
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The national protest movement that has erupted in the wake ofGeorge Floyd's death hasrekindled a fire under the culturaltinderbox known as the American Confederacy. In the past week, public officials, military leaders and sports executives have made moves to take down Confederate statues and ban the Confederate flag, iconography that remains inextricably linked to the Southern cause that launched the Civil War: the preservation of a way of life anchored to slavery. While such efforts have flared in recent years, historians say the Black Lives Matter protest movementonce again sweeping the nation after Floyd's death has catapulted the issue to a place of unprecedented visibility that is likely to have lasting effects
3 Jewish takeaways from unrest over pandemic and George Floyd – The Jewish News of Northern California
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Its five months to Election Day and America is in the midst of at least two national crises. The unrest reverberating throughout the land from the coronavirus pandemic and the killing of George Floyd is plunging Donald Trumps polling numbers. The president trails the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, by 14 points, according to a CNN poll that lawyers for the Trump campaign have tried to repress.
First came the pandemic, then came the politics: Why Amy Acton quit – The Cincinnati Enquirer
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Dr. Amy Acton resigned as director of the Ohio Department of Health on Thursday, a little more than three months after the state's first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus.(Photo: Samuel Greene/The Enquirer) COLUMBUS Dr. Amy Acton didn't take the job of Ohio's health director to become a heroine in a white lab coat
