Estimates of garbage takes overtaking physical garbage in Lebanon range from six months to two years. Beirut, August 5 – Decades of mismanagement, malfeasance, incompetence, and rampant corruption in this once-thriving country of nearly seven million have resulted in, among ...
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“It’s all about inclusivity.” New York, August 4 – Student activists gearing up for the 2021-2022 academic year at Columbia University have begun preparations for a campaign to pressure the undergraduate administration into restricting admission to gentile applicants beginning next fall, ...
Read More »by Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times New York, August 3 – Roberta, this is a fine recap of the Met’s upcoming exhibit – good job getting them to grant you an exclusive preview of the Pollock retrospective. It’s ...
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“You have to have some backup plan, some go-to technique to deflect, distract, or delay until they get sidetracked.” Jerusalem, August 2 – With July gone and less than a month remaining until school reopens, a local primary school student ...
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“They seemed to have this weird notion that there are limits on what you can do to children for the collective good.” Hinnom Valley, July 29 – A scientific effort to alter history to conform to a narrative under which Palestinians constitute ...
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It spells the end of a cash cow that the Rabbinate has milked for decades, relegating the institution to the more traditional Rabbinic role of not engaging in the flagrantly problematic dynamic of having a kashrut inspector draw a salary directly ...
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“Ask for your manna to taste like it tomorrow and you’ll understand.” Wilderness of Sinai, July 28 – An Israelite studying the new set of laws that Moses transmitted to the people from the Almighty took issue today with the ...
Read More »“Delta, lambda, whatever,” he pronounced with a wave of his hand. “Our robust strategy is more than a match for this virus.” Idlib, July 27 – Testing for coronavirus in an area contested by the Syrian Arab Army and insurgents ...
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“I have a responsibility to ensure my athletes have a chance to compete, but they also have their pride.” Tokyo, July 26 – The head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee upped the ante on demands of the organizers of this ...
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By Fajr-5 LMMC-6D33108B2 Gaza City, July 25 – It looks like my buddies and I may have worn out our welcome in this apartment, but not because of anything we did: public nervousness in the wake of a bunch of ...
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