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A Tribute to John PrineThursday at 7:30 p.m. on YouTube

John Prine, the country-folk singer-songwriter who inspired Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and others, died in April of complications from Covid-19 at 73. On Thursday, a virtual celebration of his life Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine, featuring musicians, actors and friends will premiere. The tribute includes memories and songs as well as never-before-shared footage of Prine. Along with other charitable organizations, the event will raise money the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Alive, whose grief center is providing free counseling sessions to anyone in Middle Tennessee whos lost a family member to the pandemic.

When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: John Prines YouTube and Facebook channels.

Turn down the house lights. Its showtime. Offstage: Opening Night, from The New York Times, is an expansive program with some of the stages biggest stars including Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone Jeremy O. Harris and Mary-Louise Parker who will gather virtually to perform and discuss songs, scenes and stories that defined a year like no other. Wesley Morris, a New York Times critic-at-large, will moderate a portion of the conversation. Afterward, Times critics and journalists including Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Aisha Harris, Amanda Hess, Nicole Herrington and Michael Paulson will share some of their favorite moments of the season, and the moments that they wish they could have seen.

When: 7 p.m.

Where: The New York Times Events website. R.S.V.P. here.

The actor and dancer Dylln Burnside (Pose) is bringing together friends and influential members of the L.G.B.T.Q. and black communities during Pride month with a new conversation series called Black and Queer in America, which premieres Thursday. First up: the Emmy Award-winning actor Billy Porter (Pose); Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign; the writer, director and activist Janet Mock; and Mayor Steven Reed of Montgomery, Ala. (You can also watch Burnsides new PBS docuseries Prideland, which explores personal stories across the American South, on the PBS Voices YouTube channel.)

When: 6 p.m.

Where: Dylln Burnsides Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages.

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The memory of what was done in Lubya, like the memory of all the other abominable acts that preceded it, will forever disgrace its destructive perpetrators.

These scathing words were published in the Labor movement daily Davar 81 years ago. A few weeks earlier, in the summer of 1939, members of the Haganah the underground, pre-independence army of Mandatory Palestines Jews, founded by the movements members had murdered two men and a woman, and injured a young girl and a toddler. All of them were innocent Arabs from the village of Lubya in the Lower Galilee, shot dead at home in the dead of night.

The murders, described as a revenge attack for the killing of a Jew by villagers in Lubya, was carried out by members of the Haganahs special ops unit. Each man who took part in the mission has a place of honor in the local history books: The most senior was Yigal Allon, who later headed the Palmach (the Haganahs elite strike force), and became an Israel Defense Forces general and education and foreign minister.

The operations organizer was Nahum Shadmi, a senior Haganah member and a future IDF colonel and president of a military appeals tribunal, as well as a Mapai Party activist (Mapai was the forerunner of the Labor Party). His son Issachar was commander of the Border Police brigade whose members committed the 1956 massacre in the Arab town of Kafr Qasem.

This month marks the centenary since the founding of the Haganah. Its pre-1948 actions included assisting with illegal Jewish migration to British Mandatory Palestine; covert overnight construction of new settlements (the Tower and Stockade operations); dispatching operatives such as Hannah Szenes into Nazi-occupied Europe or commandos to Vichy-controlled Lebanon; as well as other heroic feats that have become part of this countrys legacy.

But there is another aspect to the Haganah that will not feature prominently in the centenary celebrations, and which is not well known to the public or part of the high school curriculum. This aspect has been excluded from museums, parades, and the official and state-sanctioned history books. It shows that the hallowed purity of arms concept was interpreted very loosely by the organization that gave birth to the IDF.

Now, after 100 years, its time to talk about these chapters as well, says Peleg Levy, a documentarian who has interviewed hundreds of veterans over the last decade including members of right-wing and left-wing underground organizations as part of a project documenting Israels history. They told him about assassinations, reprisals and terror attacks attributed to the Haganah. Among the wider public, such operations are normally only associated with the right-wing Irgun and Lehi organizations. Any mention of those names evokes the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem in 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacretwo years later.

If theres a Lehi conference in which they dont talk about the assassination of Folke Bernadotte [the Swedish diplomat murdered by Lehi members in 1948], people will complain. If the Irgun holds one in which they dont talk about the King David Hotel operation, people will jump on them. So why do they allow the Haganah to write its history without talking about similar things their people perpetrated? Levy asks.

Later in our conversation, he notes that the Labor movement called members of these two underground groups terrorists, while taking pride in the purity of the Haganah organizations actions and stressing that their methods were different.

Despite this, the Haganah has a list of blemishes to its name, ones that former members would be only too happy to expunge from memory. They never took responsibility for most of these operations, making do with some general condemnation or blaming rogue elements in the organization. This is how the murder in Lubya was described in Davar. The paper said, without noting the identity of the perpetrators, that this act was a horrific murder, attesting to the perpetrators loss of any ability to distinguish [innocents] and their lack of any human sensitivity. These shots, which killed elderly people, women and a baby, show that we are on a dark slope, sliding toward an abyss.

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Nest of killers

Nine years later, in January 1948, Haganah members were involved in an operation that, over 70 years on, appears never to have been thoroughly investigated.

Its unlikely that most people reading this will have heard of the Semiramis Hotel bombing in Jerusalems Katamon neighborhood by the Haganahs Moriah battalion. This may be due to the fact that it occurred at the height of the War of Independence, which was marked by many violent acts. However, its probable that the writers of Haganah history deliberately chose to minimize any mention of this incident as many right-wingers believe.

The blast was meant to hit the headquarters of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of the Arab militias fighting Jewish forces in the Jerusalem area. A squad of Haganah soldiers gained entrance to the hotels basement and placed explosives there before detonating them. Husayni was not in the building, but dozens of Arab civilians were. The exact number of dead and injured is unknown to this day. According to one report, 26 people were killed and a further 60 injured.

Most of the dead were from the Christian Abu Suawan family, including women and children, as well as the Spanish vice-consul to Jerusalem, who was living in the hotel. Davar reported the incident the next day and, like before, did not provide its readers with the full picture. The Haganah blew up Arab militia headquarters in Jerusalem, the headline read. This was one of the nests of killers in Jerusalem, the paper declared.

Another building was blown up by the Haganah some two years earlier, in February 1946. This was part of a Palmach operation targeting British police stations across the country. Three British women and a child were killed in the explosion. Over the years, Haganah leaders and the pre-state Jewish community accused us of being irresponsible in carrying out such attacks and yet here, Haganah members were the first to hit British women, wrote Natan Yellin-Mor, a Lehi leader who later became a peace activist.

A popular song among Palmach members in those days talked about castrating Mohammed. This referred to an Arab from the town of Beisan now Beit Shean who was suspected of trying to rape a kibbutz member. Due to a rise in the number of Jewish women being raped by Arabs at the time, the Palmach decided to retaliate according to the biblical injunction to chop off a thiefs hand or, in this case, the organ used to commit the crime; in other words, to castrate him, Mossad member Gamliel Cohen wrote years later, in a book describing the first undercover operations in which Jews dressed up as Arabs.

The official website of the Palmach describes the castration incident as one of the exceptions, an extremely cruel one, committed by its members in those years. This operation was initiated by Allon and carried out by Yohai Ben-Nun (a future naval commander), Amos Horev (a future IDF general and president of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology) and Yaakov Cohen (later a member of all three intelligence agencies). The instructions were that the castrated man should remain alive, walking around with his injuries in order to deter others, the Palmach website explains. The team was briefed by a doctor in Afula on how to perform this operation.

From the perspective of the people who had decided on this, the preparations reflected the intention to implement it while applying a humane approach, the Palmach website stresses. The three men found the suspect at home, dragged him to an open area and castrated him. This operation had a riveting effect, resonating throughout the Beit Shean Valley and terrorizing the local Arabs, writes Cohen in a book published by the Defense Ministry.

Sacrifices in the name of immigration

The 80th anniversary of one of the most lethal events in the history of the Zionist movement will be marked in six months time: the bombing of the British ship Patria on November 25, 1940 an incident that also failed to lead to any expressions of remorse by the Haganah, even though its members were the perpetrators. The plan was to prevent the expulsion of some 2,000 illegal immigrants, who the British were deporting from Haifa to a detention camp in Mauritius. However, the damage wrought by the blast was so immense that the ship sank along with some 250 passengers.

Instead of relating to the affair as a tragedy that warranted the investigation of its perpetrators, the Labor movement insisted on turning it into a symbol, its victims turned into martyrs sacrificed on the altar of defending the homeland, with no note of who was actually responsible for their deaths.

Berl Katznelson, the ideological leader of the labor movement, wrote the next day to Shaul Avigur, one of the Haganahs leaders: Know that the day of the Patria sinking is for us like the day of [the 1920 fall of] Tel-Hai, thus trying to assign to the event foundational national status. He added that the Patria operation was the biggest Zionist action in recent times. Yitzhak Tabenkin, among the leaders of the Kibbutz Movement, called the victims heroic unknown soldiers.

Eliyahu Golomb, the undeclared head of the Haganah, also spoke about the incident in the same vein. For me, the day of the Patria is not a black day, nor the blackest day, he said. These were sacrifices made in the name of immigration, for our right to immigrate. These victims were not without meaning.

The massacre committed by members of the Palmachs Third Battalion in the village of Ein al-Zeitun, near Safed, was also ultimately glossed over. Today, every history buff in Israel knows about the April 1948 massacre in Deir Yassin, carried out by right-wing underground members. But few have heard about the one a month later by underground members of a left-wing organization. They conquered the village and imprisoned dozens of Arab combatants. Two days later, on May 1, they executed them with their hands bound.

Historian Yoav Gelber writes in his book about the 1948 war that the eagerness of the left to hurl accusations at Irgun and Lehi members while highlighting the Deir Yassin affair stems from their uneasiness over the participation of Palmach commanders and soldiers in similar actions, such as the murder of dozens of prisoners in Ein al-Zeitun.

In 1939, the Jewish Agencys political department issued a Thou shall not murder decree, signed by the most senior spiritual leaders of the age, in which they warned against Jews killing Jews. The decree was aimed at the Irgun organization, which had murdered Jews it deemed traitors. But these leaders ignored the fact that the Haganah also executed Jews and non-Jews who it identified as traitors and informants, says Gili Haskin, a tour guide who wrote a Ph.D. thesis about the purity of arms concept in those days.

Haskin wrote in an article that the executions carried out by the Irgun and Lehi groups were overt and publicized, whereas the ones carried out by the Haganah were surreptitious, performed by special ops teams.

'No clean hands'

The first Jew to be executed by the Haganah was Baruch Weinschell, who was accused of giving the British information about illegal immigration. He was killed in October 1940, in Haifa. Oscar Opler, a kibbutznik from the Lower Galilee, was also executed. He was a British informant who had revealed the location of hidden weapons and was subsequently condemned to death by the Haganah. Moshe Savtani was exposed as an informant and shot in the stairwell of his house by the Haganah. He died of his wounds in hospital. Yitzhak Sharansky from Tel Aviv, Baruch Manfeld from Haifa and Walter Strauss and others also fell victim to internal assassinations by Haganah members.

Such operations continued right up to the establishment of the state. At the end of March 1947, Mordechai Berger, who worked in the Mandatory polices traffic division, was murdered in the street after being suspected of divulging information about the Haganah to the British. The assailants gagged him and hit him over the head with clubs. Berger fell bleeding, wrote Prof. Yehuda Lapidot, an Irgun member who later researched the history of Mandatory Palestine.

None of the organizations emerges with clean hands from this dark matter, Haskin wrote. He added that the fingers of right-wing organization members were lighter on the trigger, but emphasized the role of Haganah members in assassinating Jews.

In this context, one cannot ignore the first political murder of a Jew in Mandatory Palestine. The victim was Jacob de Haan, a strange character and proud poet who became ultra-Orthodox and an anti-Zionist, talking with Arabs about the possibility of revoking the Balfour Declaration. Haganah member Avraham Tehomi and other associates were believed to be behind de Haans assassination on a Jerusalem street in June 1924.

British officials were also targeted by the Haganah, although most assassinations of Mandate officials were perpetrated by Irgun and Lehi members. The most famous was the assassination of Lord Moyne, the British minister of state in the Middle East. He was shot to death in Cairo by Lehi members in November 1944. The Haganah, meanwhile, killed British officer William Bruce, who was shot in Jerusalem at the end of Simchat Torah, in October 1946. A British inspector was murdered last night while walking alone in Jerusalem, wearing civilian clothes, Haaretz reported the next day.

Exceptionally for those days, the perpetrators were members of the Palmach: the Haganahs commando force had been set up in 1941, cooperating with the British in its early years. The murder was in response to Bruces abuse of Palmach prisoners in a British prison a few months earlier.

Peleg Levys documentary project included an interview from 2010 with the commander of that operation, Aharon Spector. He told Modi Snir and Levy that he had followed Bruce with the intent of punishing him. I waited for him, he sensed he was a target, he recounted. The assassination was preceded by a trial by a special Palmach court, which sentenced Bruce to death. According to Spector, the order came from Yigal Allon.

Privately, people didnt worry about telling these stories, while the collective they belonged to did not relish talking about it, Levy says.

Yisrael Medad from the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem investigated the incident as part of a lecture series he holds on the purity of arms topic. This incident is amusing, he says, referring to a flyer the Palmach published after the murder. They needed to explain that they were unlike those terrorists from Irgun and Lehi but that in practice they needed to do the same thing, he says.

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Fashions facades are crumbling. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, the progressive images of many brands, shops and influencers are being stripped away to reveal what are in some cases toxic internal practices.

Under the pressure of a debate over racism sparked by the killing of Floyd in Minneapolis, a harsh spotlight has been thrown upon organisations and individuals in the fashion sector whose outwardly woke statements in support of anti-racism jars with their internal behavior.

Last week, the protests over racism spread as several brands and designers werecriticisedfor being tone deaf to the change of mood, or worse. Even the US Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, apologised for her magazines historical publication of stories and images that may have been hurtful to or intolerant of black people. Leandra Medine Cohen, the founder of the fashion blog Man Repeller, said she would step back after criticism of her companys response to systemic racism.

This disconnect between outward brand identity and racist undercurrents has surfaced in recent years, with fashion labels like Dolce & Gabbana,Comme des Garons,GucciandBurberrycalled out for producing racially insensitive and culturally inappropriate items of clothing.

But now an outpouring of statements from minority workers have often exposed systematic racism beneath veneers of corporate civility.

Days after the LA-based sustainable brand Reformationdonatedto Black Lives Matter, Reclaim the Block, Black Visions Collective, the NAACP and the ACLU, they too were criticised for their internal practices by ablackformer employee,Elle Santiago.

Being overlooked and undervaluedas a woman of color who worked and managed their flagship store for three years was the hardest, Santiago wrote in an Instagram post picked upby industry watchdogDiet Prada. I cried many times knowing [that] the color of my skin would get me nowhere in the company.

Santiago said she was denied work promotions in favor of white colleagues, as well as being ignored by the company founder,Yael Aflalo, because of her race. Ive failed, Aflalo posted as anapologyat the weekend and announced a diversity and inclusion board, a personal donation of $500,000 and an independent investigation into the companys workplace culture. She stepped down from running the company on Friday.

Its a similar story at Urban Outfitters, according to a former employee who spoke to the Guardian.

As one of very few PoC [people of color] I quickly noticed the toxic environment Id joined, says the former employee, who wishes to remain anonymous. Within my first month my manager made a flippant racist comment in regards to an Uber Id called; the drivers name was Muhammad. Her comment was, Youwouldget a Muhammad in what I can only take as a comment made because of my heritage.

Theres no PoC in the executive team and very little representation of PoC in head office, on the website, marketing campaigns and within the retail management teams.

The company has a history of producing offensive items of clothing, including a seemingly blood-spattered T-shirt seen as a reference to the 1970 Kent State shootings;a T-shirt in a color named Obama/Black; another featuring a six-pointed badge, which seemed to allude to the Star of David badge that Jewish people were forced to wear during the Holocaust; and a racially insensitive Navajo line which used the Navajo nation name illegally.

The Guardian contacted Urban Outfitters for comment and they shared an internal email that said: We support and stand with the black community and we recognise that we all must do more than weve done to date.

The company added it would commit to attracting a more diverse internal and external workforce.

Fashion industry observers say the reckoning is long overdue.

Many complain that non-white voices have been sublimated by white executives, and it is important now that these emerging testimonies are listened to and bring change. It is seen as especially important, because theres been a theme of some fashion-centric companies benefitting from either diversity on the shop floor, or on their webpages or in their advertising campaigns, deliberately adding a cultural edge to their aesthetic.

For example, the Urban Outfitterswebsite sells T-shirts featuring black groups such as Wu-Tang Clan and TLC, musicians such as Aaliyah and Jimi Hendrix, and ones featuring the logo from Death Row records, which was co-founded by Dr Dre. [They are] profiting from black culture and have done for decades, said the ex-employee. The least they can do is show genuine alliance and support the black community.

The race issues of companies such as Urban Outfitters and Reformation also shows a deep misunderstanding of the consumers they should be serving, fashion watchers say.

This generation feels comfortable not having only one way to be themselves, says Kati Chitrakorn, Vogue Businesss retail and marketing editor. Their search for authenticity creates a greater freedom of expression, and a greater openness to understanding different kinds of people. But italso means they scrutinize brands more carefully.

Frustration with the perceived corporate hijack of minority identity can be seen in the recentdissident Pride marches, which have championed queer liberation not rainbow capitalism, in a critique of the official marches, which have become an advertising showcase for corporations who sponsor floats rather than an echo of the radical message of the original protesters of Stonewall.

Historically, shoppers have used fashion as a social identifier, but many consumers these days want more. Successful brands realize they are part of society and have a role to play, and will cater to teens craving for authenticity says Chitrakorn.Its alsowhy, for a generation of buzzy brands, making consumers feel kinship takesprecedence over selling product.

Thats why the current chorus of public apologies might not cut it unless they come with concrete action.

Changing yourself before talking about your changes will be vital, says RJ dHond from data consulting company Kantar, and only if it is a full company intent, not a marketing or communication department idea.

In this landscape, people will spot fakes. If a brand suddenly activates content around a cause it does not have a history of supporting, it will appear superficial and transactional, says Conor Begley, co-creator of influencer analysts Tribe Dynamics.

He cites Rihannas Fenty as a brand thathas effectively taken on social issues, supported by Rihannas own advocacy on social justice issues and the brands hiring of diverse influencers and models from the off.

As a result, the brands recent contributions to racial justice conversations on social media do not appear hollow or performative, but rather an authentic expression of the values Fenty has always stood for, Begley says.

So what should fashion do as the great unmasking roars on?

Its time to clean house and get things in order, says Karen Binns, fashion director of Fashion Roundtable. The consumer will be asking for receipts, so get ready.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down Sunday with US Ambassador David Friedman, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin to discuss plans to unilaterally annex parts of the West Bank in accordance with the Trump administrations peace plan.

Friedman has met with all the senior politicians several times, though this may be the first summit when they are all present together to hash out the subject.

Washington has reportedly been pressuring Netanyahu to only move ahead with the controversial move if Gantz and Ashkenazi agree, lending the step extra legitimacy as representative of an Israeli consensus. Gantz and Ashkenazi both publicly back US President Donald Trumps Peace to Prosperity plan, but have not endorsed Netanyahus planned unilateral annexation of territory allocated to Israel under the proposal. Still, Gantz was last week quoted as telling settler leaders, Whats being offered to you, take. As for the rest, you can deal with it later.

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Channel 12 said several options were being discussed in what it called Sundays fateful meeting, including partial annexation or postponing the move.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, center, and then-Tourism Minister Yariv Levin during a meeting to discuss mapping extension of Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, held in the Ariel settlement, February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Policymakers and diplomats in Washington are increasingly warning that the Israeli governments plans to annex parts of the West Bank, backed by the US, would spark a crisis and damage the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

With Netanyahus July 1 start date fast approaching, multiple stakeholders in the conflict pleaded with the Trump administration and members of the US Congress last week to oppose Netanyahus vow to unilaterally extend Israeli sovereignty to the settlements and the Jordan Valley the 30% of the West Bank allocated to Israel under the Trump peace plan.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)told members of Congress last week that it has no objection to them criticizing Netanyahus annexation plans, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The pro-Israel lobby usually works assiduously to discourage any criticism of Israel.

Under a coalition deal between Netanyahu and Gantz signed last month, the government can pursue annexation backed by the US starting July 1. The Trump administration has indicated it will not oppose Israeli moves to annex lands that would become part of the country under its peace plan, which conditionally envisions a Palestinian state on the remaining some 70 percent of the West Bank, pockmarked with Israeli settlement panhandles and enclaves.

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for an event in the East Room of the White House at which Trump presented his Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal, January 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Netanyahus declared plan has been met with vociferous opposition in Europe, the Arab world and domestically, with warnings that it could add instability in the region, lead to further international isolation and damage Israels democratic character.

Netanyahu and many on the Israeli right have defended the annexation moves as long-sought recognition of a reality on the ground after decades of settlement building and military rule of the West Bank, with peace efforts long moribund due to Palestinian intransigence.

Israels Washington envoy Ron Dermer has been pushing the Trump administration to give Israel the green light to carry out its plan, fearing that his rival Joe Biden might block it if hes elected inNovember, according to a Channel 13 report in May.

While the State Department has said it is ready to recognize Israels annexation of parts of the West Bank, an official told The Times of Israel in April that the step should be in the context of the Government of Israel agreeing to negotiate with the Palestinians along the lines set forth in President Trumps Vision. Well-placed sources told the Times of Israel earlier this month that the US was highly unlikely to back any unilateral annexation by Netanyahus July 1 target date, in part because the mapping process, a precondition for the move, is weeks if not months away from completion.

The move, if enacted, would be a major turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Palestinians, foreign leaders, US lawmakers and veteran peace negotiators saying it would severely weaken the prospects of the internationally long-endorsed two-state solution.

Eric Cortellessa contributed to this report.

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His bright, blue eyes shine with happiness but behind his smile lies heartache for little Rowan Packers parents.

For the one-year-old tot will not survive long enough to even go to school.

Little Rowan has a rare condition called Tay-Sachs Disease, a genetic condition which causes progressive damage to the nervous system.

It affects just one in 320,000 babies although it is more common within the Ashkenazi Jewish population of Eastern Europe where one in 3500 babies are born with it.

The family do not think there are Ashkenazi antecedents on either side and Rowans brother and sister Aaron, seven, and Gracie, five, do not have the condition.

Mum Deborah McDonald, 26, and delivery driver dad Aaron Packer, 25, had never even heard of the condition before Rowan was diagnosed.

Deborah, who trained as a nurse for a time, said: Id heard about other genetic conditions but never this one. It was an absolute shock.

Student Deborah, studying for an honours degree in integrated health and social care, had a normal pregnancy with Rowan. With her other two pregnancies she suffered life-threatening pre-eclampsia and they were born nine weeks early.

But Rowan wasnt born until 39 weeks.

However, Deborah, who has the immune disease lupus which can cause damage to organs and as well as causing miscarriages, had always felt there was something very different about the pregnancy because Rowan hardly moved.

But she said: He looked absolutely perfect when he was born and all the routine tests came back fine.

He weighed 5lb 15oz the biggest of all the couples babies, with Aaron only 3lb 3oz and Gracie a tiny 2lb 14oz.

She said: He was maybe about four months when we realised he wasnt trying to turn over. We were doing exercises on the mat with him but he didnt have the urge to do it.

His eyesight was always a bit strange. He never focused on a person or an object.

Rowan wasnt progressing like a normal child at all.

He had a string of tests but when a cherry dot was spotted on the retina during eyetest it pretty much confirmed the diagnosis.

Deborah said: It is just mad. This thing can be in families for years and years but the chances of meeting a partner who also has the gene are quite slim, particularly in somewhere the size of Scotland.

We only know of one other child in Scotland with it, a little boy in Aberdeen, and his mum has been helping me with answers and advice. He is maybe three or four and is unresponsive.

It is hard knowing no matter what you do, Rowan will not survive. If it was cancer there may have been a chance but there is nothing that can be done for him.

Rowan, who turned one on May 24, can only eat pureed food and his movement is just like a newborn.

Deborah said: He can smile and laugh. But that will go. He will never be able to sit unaided or roll over and he cant put any pressure on his feet.

If he is not lying down, he is in his chair if we are not lifting him. His wee muscles just dont work and anything that he can do just now will be lost. Even any automatic responses will go away.

At the end, he will be completely unaware of anything. The body just stops functioning.

The couple are desperate to move to a bigger home. At the moment they are in a two-bed private let in Mosspark, Glasgow, as they wait for a Glasgow Housing Association medical property to become available.

The family need a bigger house so Rowan can have a proper hospital bed and a hoist for when he grows too big for his mum to carry.

Deborah said: We have been bidding for medical properties but we have lost out to people who have been on the list longer.

GHA said they are doing all they can to help the Packers find a home that suits their needs.

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Amira Oron confirmed as new ambassador to Egypt

The government approved the appointment of Amira Oron as ambassador to Egypt, the first full-time envoy to the Arab country in more than 18 months, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazis office says.

Oron was selected for the ambassadorship by the Foreign Ministry in October 2018, but a vote on her appointment was delayed as Netanyahu instead considered appointing Likud lawmaker Ayoub Kara to the post.

Amira Oron (Screenshot via Channel 10)

Diplomatic staff made public appeals to the government to install Oron, who previously served in the Egyptian capital and headed the Foreign Ministrys Egypt division, rather than Kara, who has been responsible for a series of diplomatic embarrassments. Kara eventually withdrew his candidacy.

Oron will take over for David Govrin, who took up the post in 2016, and will be the first female envoy to Egypt.

In 2017, Govrin and his staff returned to Israel for eight months due to unspecified security threats. Upon their return to Egypt, they resumed work from the envoys suburban Cairo home.

Additionally, Bat Eden Kite has been confirmed as the next ambassador to Turkmenistan, the statement says.

I welcome the appointment of both ambassadors, Ashkenazi says. They are experienced, professional and esteemed diplomats, and I am convinced they will advance the bilateral relations between the State of Israel and the countries in which they serve to new heights.

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By: Lifestyle Desk | New Delhi | Published: June 12, 2020 8:50:37 pm Kriti Sanon just baked chocolate babka. (Source: kritisanon/Instagram)

Kriti Sanon is on a baking spree or as she wrote on Instagram, I think I am obsessed with baking! The Luka Chuppi actor recently baked delectable multigrain chocolate babka.

Babka is a sweet braided bread or cake of Ashkenazi Jewish origin. It is a popular food in Israel, in American Jewish cuisine and other places in the Jewish diaspora.

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If you are craving babka after seeing Kritis video, we have got you covered. Here is a simple chocolate babka recipe by food blogger Tori Avey that you can try:

Dough

2 1/4 tsp Active dry yeast2/3 cup Whole milk warmed, and one additional tbsp for egg wash5 tbsp Unsalted butter at room temperature3 tbsp and 1 tsp Granulated sugar1 1/2 tbsp Flavourless cooking oil1 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract4 Egg yolks, reserve 1 egg white for egg wash2 1/2 3 1/4 cups All purpose flour1 tsp Kosher salt

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Chocolate filling

2 cups Dark chocolate, finely chopped2 tsp Ground cinnamon1/3 cup Unsalted butter cold

Streusel (crumbly topping of flour)

1/4 cup Dark brown sugar1/4 cup All purpose flour2 tbsp Unsalted butter cold cut into small1/4 tsp Kosher salt

* Dissolve the yeast in warm milk along with 1 tsp sugar. The mixture will soon become foamy as the yeast begins to grow.

* Meanwhile, cream together the butter and sugar in a mixer. Add oil and vanilla extract and mix well. Add the egg yolks one at a time and beat well.

* To this, add flour and 1 tsp salt and mix. Now add the foamy yeast mixture. Mix until just combined. Mix 1 tbsp of flour at a time and knead to form a soft dough.

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* Place the dough in a greased mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Rest it for one or two hours at room temperature to let it rise.

* Once the dough has risen, roll it lightly on a floured surface to form a rectangle.

* In a bowl, mix chocolate, cinnamon and butter till it has a chunky texture. This is the chocolate filling. Set aside.

* Evenly spread the chocolate filling over the dough, leaving an even 1-inch border around the edge.

* Starting from one side, roll the dough into a tight log. Roll the dough back and forth several times, gently spreading it out until the length of the log is about 20 inches.

* Twist the dough and pinch ends together. Line the loaf pan with parchment paper and lightly spray it with nonstick cooking oil spray. Transfer the dough to the pan.

* Cover the pan loosely with a tea towel or a plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise for about an hour until the babka fills the pan completely.

* For the streusel, combine the ingredients in a mixing bowl.

* Make a few holes into the babka with a pin. This will allow steam to release during baking.

* Brush the babka with egg wash made from one egg white whisked with 1 tbsp of whole milk.

* Now sprinkle the streusel over the top of the babka.

* Place the pan on a baking sheet and bake for about 25 minutes in an oven preheated at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

* Turn the pan 180 degrees and cook for an additional 25 to 30 minutes. The babka should turn golden brown.

* Allow the babka to cool before slicing.

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Newswise BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Researchers who made a knock-in mouse-model of the genetic disorder retinitis pigmentosa 59, or RP59, expected to see retinal degeneration and retinal thinning. As reported in the journal Cells, they surprisingly found none, calling into question the commonly accepted though never proved mechanism for RP59.

Our findings bring into question the current concept that RP59 is a member of a large and diverse class of diseases known as congenital disorders of glycosylation, said Steven Pittler, Ph.D., professor and director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry and Vision Science Vision Science Research Center. While in principle it would be reasonable to consider RP59 as a congenital disorder of glycosylation, due to the associated mutation in DHDDS, an enzyme required for glycosylation, there is no direct evidence to demonstrate a glycosylation defect in the human retinal disease or in any animal model of RP59 generated to date.

This means the mechanism of DHDDS-dependent retinal degeneration in human RP59 patients remains unknown, and appears to be more complex than just a DHDDS loss of function.

Retinitis pigmentosa is a group of rare genetic disorders affecting the light-sensitive retinal tissue at the back of the eye. Patients first notice night blindness and loss of peripheral vision, and the disease can progress to vision loss and legal blindness. RP59 has changes in the gene for DHDDS, one of the 50 genes that can lead to RP. RP59 is found in one in 100 Ashkenazi Jewish people and one in 2,009 people worldwide.

In RP59, the lysine that is the 42nd amino acid of the DHDDS enzyme is changed to a glutamic acid, a change known as a K42E point mutation. So Pittler and colleagues at UAB and the State University of New York at Buffalo, or SUNY-Buffalo, examined the retinas of mice that were made homozygous for a DHDDS K42E mutation.

Using spectral domain-optical coherence tomography, they found no evidence of retinal degeneration, even up to one year of age. Also, there was no evidence of compromised protein N-glycosylation, meaning there was no significant DHDDS loss of function in the K42E mice. Opsin, a protein in photoreceptor cells involved in vision, is often mislocalized when photoreceptor cells degenerate; however, the K42E mice showed no change in opsin localization.

What the researchers did find was extensive gliosis in the retinas of the mutant mice, which was spread in a radial pattern throughout the inner retinal layers to the outer plexiform layer of the retina. There was also intense gliosis at the vitreoretinal interface. Gliosis is a change in glial cells of the central nervous system, often in response to injury. In the retina, it affects glial Mller cells, and that reactive gliosis can have harmful effects on vision.

These results indicate massive gliotic activation, Pittler said, which is remarkable considering the lack of overt retinal degeneration or loss of retinal neurons.

The study, Lack of overt retinal degeneration in a K42E Dhdds knock-in mouse model of RP59, is published in Cells. Co-authors with Pittler are Sriganesh Ramachandra Rao and Steven J. Fliesler, SUNY-Buffalo; and Pravallika Kotla and Mai N. Nguyen, UAB Department of Optometry and Vision Science.

Support came from National Institutes of Health grants EY029341 and P30 003039; a Fight for Sight Summer Student Fellowship, a Career-Starter Research Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation, the UAB Vision Science Research Center and the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System.

Pittler and colleagues have also published two companion papers that further probe the role of DHDDS in RP.

The first study, Selective ablation of dehydrodolichol diphosphate synthase in murine retinal pigment epithelium causes RPE atrophy and retinal degeneration, is published in Cells. It showed that retinal pigment epithelium-specific deletion of the gene for DHDDS in mice induced structural and functional deficits in the retinal pigment epithelium and the photoreceptors. This suggests that retinal pigment epithelium pathology may be a significant contributor to the retinal degeneration observed in humans with RP59 mutations.

Researchers at UAB and SUNY-Buffalo did the study.

The second study, Retinal degeneration caused by rod-specific Dhdds ablation occurs without concomitant inhibition of protein N-glycosylation, is published in IScience. It examined the rod photoreceptor-specific ablation of the gene for DHDDS. The researchers found that mouse retinas had mild retinal dysfunction at four weeks after birth, followed by rapid photoreceptor degeneration and almost complete loss of rods and cones by six weeks after birth. Rods and cones are the photoreceptors of the retina. Retinal proteins, including opsin, still showed N-glycosylation, which again challenges the conventional mechanistic view of RP59 as a congenital disorder of glycosylation.

Researchers at UAB, SUNY-Buffalo and the Polish Academy of Sciences did the study.

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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.

Last weeks decision by this newspaper to disavow an Op-Ed by Senator Tom Cotton is a gift to the enemies of a free press free in the sense of one that doesnt quiver and cave in the face of an outrage mob. It is a violation of the principles that are supposed to sustain the profession, particularly our obligation to give readers a picture of the world as it really is.

And, as the paper dismisses distinguished journalists along with controversial opinions, its an invitation to intellectual cowardice.

Start with the Op-Ed itself, in which Senator Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, called on the federal government to deploy active-duty troops to American cities in the wake of looting and rioting that accompanied overwhelmingly peaceful protests.

I dont agree with Cottons view. I know of nobody at The Times who agrees with it. The Wall Street Journals editorial page doesnt agree with it. Ditto for much of the mainstream media, at least its more liberal precincts.

Then again, isnt this the biggest problem these outlets have faced in recent years being of a single mind on subjects that sharply divide the nation? Isnt that how we got into trouble in 2016, with our rock-solid belief that Donald Trump couldnt possibly win?

In the week of the Op-Eds publication, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 52 percent of Americans favored deploying troops to help quell violent unrest in American cities. Thats not a political fringe unworthy of consideration. And Tom Cotton isnt some nobody youll never hear from again. He has the pulse of his party, the ear of the president and an eye on higher office. Readers deserve an unvarnished look at who this man is and what he stands for.

Many critics of the pieces publication think otherwise. The papers editors note said the senators Op-Ed didnt meet The Timess editorial standards. To which one might ask: Would the paper have stood by the article if Cotton had made a better case for sending in troops, with stronger legal arguments and a nicer tone? Or were the pieces supposed flaws a pretext for achieving the politically desired result by a paper that lost its nerve in the face of a staff revolt?

A second criticism is that the paper could have examined Cottons views without giving him an unmediated platform; that his proposal should have been evaluated by the news department, not published uncritically in the Opinion pages; and that his arguments went beyond the moral pale.

But the value of Cottons Op-Ed doesnt lie in its goodness or rightness. It lies in the fact that Cotton is a leading spokesman for a major current of public opinion. To suggest our readers should not have the chance to examine his opinions for themselves is to patronize them. To say they should look up his opinions elsewhere say, his Twitter feed is to betray our responsibility as a newspaper of record. And to claim that his argument is too repugnant for publication is to write off half of America a remarkable about-face for a paper that, after 2016, fretted that it was out of touch with the country we live in.

The most serious criticism is that publication of the piece puts black lives at risk, including members of the Times staff.

Thats a vital consideration, especially now, and one about which no responsible publisher can be indifferent. No one can look away from the deaths of black Americans at the hands of the police, and the overall rise in reported hate crimes in recent years.

But as important as it is to try to keep people safe against genuine threats, it is not the duty of the paper to make people feel safe by refusing to publish a dismaying Op-Ed. Even if one concedes that Cottons call to send in the troops poses potential risks, it poses those risks whether his call appears in these pages or not. To know Cottons views is, if nothing else, to be better armed against them.

The same goes for any other type of knowledge, however unpleasant: Having more of it is always a source of strength a belief that lies at the core of our profession.

Or, I should say, used to. There is a spirit of ferocious intellectual intolerance sweeping the country and much of the journalistic establishment with it. Contrary opinions arent just wrong but unworthy of discussion. The range of political views deemed morally unfit for publication seems to grow ever wider. Arthur Miller once said a good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. What kind of paper will The Times be if half the nation doesnt get to be even an occasional part of that conversation?

All this is a tragedy. We have an obligation as journalists to be rigorous in fact and argument. We also have an obligation to keep undeniably hateful ideas, like Holocaust denial or racism, out of the editorial pages. But serious journalism, complete with a vigorous exchange of ideas, cannot survive in an atmosphere in which modest intellectual risk-taking or minor offenses against new ideological orthodoxies risk professional ruin.

Its also an irony. Who, after all, has gained the most from the turmoil at The Times? That would be Tom Cotton, who first got the benefit of a public furor that helped make his piece the most read Op-Ed in The Times last week and then got to pose as a tribune of free speech against the censorious leftists and stampeded editors at the Fake News.

If thats a victory for Cottons ideological opponents, I wonder what defeat looks like.

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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.

Declaring we will not be beaten by a bug, the Woodbridge-based Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre has moved what would ordinarily be its annual spring outdoor park concert to the internet.

Feria de Sevilla will be live-streamed on YouTube 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 14. The event is free but donations are welcomed.

The program originally was scheduled to take place at Parker Press Park in Woodbridge. The troupe also has had to postpone its March fundraiser gala to Oct. 18 at Ria Mar in South River.

Meanwhile, the dance groups website proclaims Life, here at Alborada, goes on regardless, and has posted a series of photo collages showing troupe members making dresses and rehearsing, as well as using some of the sewing time to make masks for area hospital workers.

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Here is a rundown of arts and entertainment events that have been canceled or rescheduled throughout the state.

ATLANTIC COUNTY

Atlantic City casinos remain closed, but Gov. Murphy implied they could reopen by July 4 weekend.

Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City has postponed events through Aug. 6, including its June 20 Lit in AC show, which has been moved to March 2021. Visit boardwalkhall.com/events.

The Stockton University Performing Arts Center on the Galloway campus has emptied its schedule of events until further notice. For more information, contact 609-652-9000 or visit stocktonpac.org.

BERGEN COUNTY

Events have been canceled or postponed at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford through Aug. 18. As of June 10, the only non-sports event still on the summer schedule is the Aug. 19 Lady Gaga Chromatica Ball tour stop. For information, visit metlifestadium.com.

State Fair Meadowlands has pushed back its fair dates, originally scheduled from June 25 to July 12, to the new dates of July 23 to Aug. 9.

Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood has canceled, postponed or rescheduled shows through July 30. For information, visit bergenpac.org or call 201-227-1030.

The Hackensack Performing Arts Center in Hackensack has canceled events until the Teaneck New Theatres scheduled Aug. 21-23 run of Almost, Maine, For more information, visit hacpac.org.

The Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck has canceled its live events and has been offering various online art, film and music posts. Visit puffinculturalforum.org or call 201-836-3499 for updates.

The Belskie Museum of Art and Science in Closter is closed until further notice. Visit belskiemuseum.com or call 201-768-0286.

The Mahwah Museum is closed until further notice. Visit mahwahmuseum.org or call 201-512-0099.

BURLINGTON COUNTY

The Roebling Museum in Florence has suspended all public programming until further notice. Visit roeblingmuseum.org.

CAMDEN COUNTY

BB&T Pavilion in Camden this week formally canceled its summer concert schedule. Visit livenation.com for details.

The Adventure Aquarium in Camden has suspended operations but still holds out hopes of reopening this month. Visit adventureaquarium.com or call 844-474-3474.

The Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood has postponed or rescheduled concert dates through the summer. The next planned event is the rescheduled Indigo Girls concert Oct. 2. For information, visit scottishriteauditorium.com or call 856-858-1000.

The New Jersey Renaissance Faire, held yearly at Liberty Lake in Bordentown, has canceled the 2020 edition and is planning to try again May 22 to June 6, 2021.

CAPE MAY COUNTY

The Barefoot County Music Fest planned for June 19 to June 21 in Wildwood has been put off until 2021. The three-day party was to be headlined by Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton and Dan and Shay.

The recently renamed Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture) formerly Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities has canceled or postponed all public programming until further notice.

The Wildwoods National Marbles Tournament scheduled for June 22 to June 25 has been canceled.

The Cape May County Park and Zoo has opened its park area, but the zoo remains closed until further notice.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

The Landis Theater in Vineland is closed through July 24, when it hopes to reopen its doors for a concert by Back in Black, an AC/DC tribute band. Visit thelandistheater.com for updates.

The Levoy Theatre in Millville has rescheduled or postponed its slate of shows through at least Aug. 7. Visit levoy.net or call 856-327-6400.

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The Wheaton Arts and Culture Center and the Museum of American Glass in Millville have suspended public programming until further notice. Keep tabs at wheatonarts.org or call 856-825-6800.

The Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts in Millville has closed until further notice. It has converted Isolation to an ongoing online exhibit, to be updated as entries are received. Call 856-327-4500 or visit rrcarts.com.

ESSEX COUNTY

The Prudential Center in Newark has closed its facilities, offices, the Grammy Museum Experience and the RJWBarnabas Health Hockey House. Next concert on the schedule is the June 27 A.R. Rahman show. For questions, email guestservices@prucenter.com. For up-to-date information, visit http://www.prucenter.com or http://www.newjerseydevils.com.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark has suspended all performances until July 10s Victoria Theatre show by comedian Kathleen Madigan. It is posting weekly DJ dance parties and other virtual events and will have three live Zoom shows with mentalist Max Major June 26-28. For information call 888-466-5722 or visit njpac.org.

South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange has halted all shows through Aug. 13. For information, call 973-313-2787, email boxoffice@sopacnow.org or visit sopacnow.org.

Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn postponed its world premiere production of The Wanderer until April 2021. It aims to open its season Oct. 7 with Clue. Visit papermill.org or email boxoffice@papermill.org.

Wellmont Theater in Montclair has postponed all shows on its schedule through Aug. 11. For information visit wellmonttheater.com or call 973-783-9500.

Outpost in the Burbs, based at the First Congregational Church in Montclair, has postponed all concerts through Sept. 10. It is hosting twice-weekly online concerts. Visit outpostintheburgs.org.

The Newark Museum of Art in Newark is closed until further notice but mounting various online activities. Visit newarkmuseumart.org or call 973-596-6550.

The Montclair Art Museum is closed until further notice. For updates, visit montclairartmuseum.org or check social media pages.

The Jewish Museum of New Jersey in Newark has canceled its Reinventing Eve exhibit and is closed to the public. Visit jewishmuseumnj.org.

The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Montclair is shut until further notice. Look for updates at yogiberramuseum.org.

The Nutley Museum has canceled all events through the summer. Call 973-667-1528 or visit nutleyhistoricalsociety.org.

GLOUCESTER COUNTY

Broadway Theatre of Pitman has closed its doors at least until the planned July 10 opening of Matilda the Musical. Call 856-384-8381 or visit thebroadwaytheatre.org.

The Heritage Glass Museum in Glassboro will be closed until further notice. Contact heritageglassmuseum.com or call 856-881-7468.

HUDSON COUNTY

The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City is closed until further notice. Visit lsc.org or call 201-200-1000.

HUNTERDON COUNTY

The New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning in Association with PNC Bank (formerly QuickChek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning) has been rescheduled from late July to Oct. 16, Oct. 17 and Oct. 18 at Solberg Airport in Readington. For information, visit http://www.balloonfestival.com.

Music Mountain Theatre in Lambertville has put its productions on hold until further notice. It has a two-part online Demystifying Oscar program on Oscar Hammerstein with his grandson, William Hammerstein, scheduled for June 20 and June 27. Visit musicmountaintheatre.org for more information.

The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton is closed until further notice but has posted three virtual exhibits online: Explorations in Felt in collaboration with Fiber Art Network; Yael Eisner Member Highlight" and Young Arts Showcase. Visit hunterdonartmuseum.org.

The Red Mill Museum Village will be closed until further notice. The May 17 Wheels for the Wheel car show has been moved to July 26. Visit theredmill.org.

The ACME Screening Room in Lambertville is closed but has made virtual screening of films available online. A $12 ticket makes the selected film available for five days. Visit acmescreeningroom.org/upcoming-events.

MERCER COUNTY

McCarter Theatre in Princeton has suspended all performances, classes and other events through June and is working on its 2020-21 season, slated to open Sept. 12 with Dreaming Zenzile, a new musical based on the life of South African singer Miriam Makeba. For information, visit mccarter.org or call 609-258-2787.

The Trenton Downtown Association has postponed its free 10-concert Levitt AMP Trenton Music Series at Mill Hill Park, which was scheduled to begin June 25. For information, call 609-393-8998 or email info@trenton-downtown.com.

Passage Theatre at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton has canceled its production of Mother (and Me) and is working on its 2020-21 season lineup. Look online at passagetheatre.org.

The New Jersey State Museum in Trenton is closed until further notice. Visit state.nj.us/state/museum.

The 1719 William Trent House Museum in Trenton has suspended operation until further notice. For information visit williamtrenthouse.org or call 609-989-0087.

Old Barracks Museum in Trenton is closed until further notice but has opened an online exhibit titled When Women Vote: The Old Barracks and the Anti-Suffrage Movement. For more information visit barracks.org/whenwomenvote.

The next scheduled entertainment event for CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton is the June 27 Iconic 2020 Bollywood show. For information visit cureinsurancearena.com.

The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie is closed until further notice, postponing the opening of Ellarslie Open 37 until the fall. It has posted the digital online exhibit The Ellarslie 'Not-Quite-Open: The Art of Sheltering in Place." Visit ellarslie.org.

Artworks has moved the annual Art All Night at Roebling Wire Works in Trenton from June 20-21 to Aug. 15-16. Visit artworkstrenton.org.

The Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton is closed until further notice. For information, visit groundsforsculpture.org or call 609-586-0616.

All Princeton University public events are suspended and the Princeton University Art Museum is closed until further notice. Visit Princeton.edu for updates.

Kelsey Theatre on the Mercer County Community College campus in West Windsor has postponed the rest of its schedule through July. Visit kelsey.mccc.edu for more.

All live events at 1867 Sanctuary in Ewing have been postponed until further notice. For information visit 1867sanctuary.org.

Rider University Arts has canceled on- and off-campus Westminster Choir College and Rider events through Nov. 21. Visit rider.edu/arts.

Morven Museum and Garden in Princeton grounds are open to the public with social distancing precautions. Visit morven.org.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY

State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick has canceled or postponed programming through mid-August. Next date on its schedule is the Aug. 29 Golden Oldies Spectacular concert. Menopause the Musical is available for online streaming through June. For more information, visit stnj.org or call 732-246-7469.

Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick has pushed back its spring opening for Freedom Rider to Sept. 10. Visit crossroadstheatrecompany.org or call 732-545-8100.

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick has shifted its spring performances of A Walk on the Moon to next season. Contact 732-246-7717 or georgestplayhouse.org.

The Avenel Performing Arts Center in Avenel has postponed performances through Aug. 10, rescheduling shows to later dates. Contact 732-314-0500 or avenelarts.com.

East Jersey Old Town Village and the Cornelius Low House Museum in Piscataway are closed until further notice. For updates, text CULTURE to 56512.

MONMOUTH COUNTY

PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel pretty much has wiped out its summer slate of concerts. The only shows still on sale as of June 10 were Rod Stewart and Cheap Trick, Aug. 11; Hall and Oates, Aug. 27; Ratt, Sept. 1; and 5 Seconds of Summer, Sept. 5. Visit livenation.com for details.

Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank has postponed performances through July 17. It will host a drive-in outdoor concert with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes 6 p.m. Saturday, July 11, at Monmouth Park. Visit thebasie.org for updates.

Axelrod Performing Arts Center in Deal has suspended all productions through Aug. 4. For information call 732-531-9106 or visit axelrodartscenter.com.

The Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan has postponed shows through June 27. Visit algonquinarts.org for updates.

Monmouth University Center for the Arts in West Long Branch has postponed scheduled events through this season. It will be streaming back productions from the Metropolitan Opera Live and National Theatre Live series. Visit monmouth.edu/mca for updates.

The Asbury Park Boardwalk has closed venues along the Asbury Park waterfront, which include The Stone Pony, Wonder Bar, Convention Hall and Paramount Theatre. For information, visit apboardwalk.com. The Stone Pony has thrown the tarp over its entire Summer 2020 SummerStage season.

Two River Theater in Red Bank has suspended all performances through June. Look online at tworivertheater.org for updated information.

The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County has suspended all programming until further notice. Visit jhmomc.org.

The Monmouth Museum in Lincroft is closed until further notice. Visit monmouthmuseum.org or call 732-224-1995.

MORRIS COUNTY

Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown has canceled or postponed performances through Aug 3. It will host a June 25 drive-in concert with John Ginty and Friends at Fosterfields Living History Farm. For information, call 973-539-8008 or visit mayoarts.org.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey plans to announce new production dates for its 2020 season in the coming weeks. It also has canceled its planned Outdoor Stage production of Much Ado About Nothing. Visit shakespearenj.org.

The Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival scheduled for Aug. 15 has been muted for 2020. It is scheduled to return Aug. 21, 2021.

The Morris Museum in Morristown and its Bickford Theater will be closed until further notice. The Dissonance exhibit has been adapted for online. For information, call 973-971-3700 or visit morrismuseum.org.

Macculloch Hall Historical Museum in Morristown has canceled programming and will remain closed until further notice. Visit macculloughhall.org or call 973-538-2404.

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