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By Osagie Otabor, Akure A political advocacy group, One Nation, One Destiny Advocacy and Awareness Initiative, on Tuesday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to amend the Electoral Act to make provision for Nigerians in the Diaspora to participate in the 2023 elections. The group said taking such a step ahead of the polls would help to build a new, affectionate and united Nigeria. Its National Coordinator, Hajia Khalima Kabir Lamisila, who spoke at the groups inaugural meeting via Zoom, said Nigerians in the Diaspora need equal opportunity to participate in the nations electoral process
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admin | June 9, 2021
The second season of Amazon Primes Family Man, released earlier this month, has touched a raw nerve in Tamil Nadu with the state government asking for the web series to be pulled down. They claim the show portrays Tamil separatists as terrorists, a characterisation that undermines the cultural sensitivities of an already maligned and persecuted group. Critics have pointed out the similarities between the shows depiction of Tamil separatists and the real-life actions of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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admin | June 9, 2021
Tolerance and coexistence were the key words last week for Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah as it became the first gap-year yeshiva to travel to the United Arab Emirates since the Abraham Accords were signed. The students began their next day with a visit to the Sheikh Mohammed Center for Cultural Understanding. The students sat with Ruqaya and Mira in a majlis, a special gathering in a room where they were treated like friends, not just tourists
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admin | June 9, 2021
As the pandemic raged on, I found myself eating more sandwiches per week than I had done since taking a PB&J to elementary school every day. Six week ago, I offered a heartfelt thank you to 11 sandwiches that I liked best, putting them in ranked order just for the hell of it
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admin | June 9, 2021
Rabbi Rami Bigelman and Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin speak with the media at Chabad on River in Tucson on June 8, 2021.(Photo: Chabad Tucson) Tucson police are investigating after the Chabad on River synagogue was vandalized with a swastika and an anti-Semitic slur over the weekend.
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admin | June 9, 2021
From the eastern facade of the outwardly nondescript Chicago Loop Synagogue, an elaborate stained-glass wall filters blue, red, and gold light into an open sanctuary. Specially designed over the course of two years by New York-based artist Abraham Rattner, the monumental, 40-foot-wide piece of art was fabricated in the Paris studio of the prolific stained-glass artist Jean Barillet during the 1970s
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admin | June 9, 2021
A man has been arrested in connection with a series of vandalisms in West L.A., including at a Pico-Robertson synagogue last month. Jon Knight Prince was arrested Thursday on suspicion of committing 13 acts of vandalism on Westwood and Pico boulevards between May 26 and Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said. He was booked on suspicion of felony vandalism and was being held on $325,000 bail
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admin | June 9, 2021
Jamie Lee Curtis. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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admin | June 7, 2021
JNS.org The tsunami of antisemitism over the past few weeks is the work of an axis of anti-Jewish evil that spans continents and has the whole Jewish world in its crosshairs in both Israel and the Diaspora.
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admin | June 7, 2021
[WASHINGTON, DC] Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon.
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