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[ad_1] City officials in Bnei Brak, Israel, have set up gender-segregated sidewalks near event halls and wedding venues, with signs and barriers directing men and women to walk on opposite sides of the street. This followed a directive from the city’s ultra-Orthodox rabbis, who want to promote modesty and let wedding guests arrive already separated by sex. City council member Yaki Vider strongly criticized the plan, saying the municipality should focus on real problems like fixing infrastructure, cleaning streets, improving transportation, and providing basic services, instead of acting as a “modesty patrol” that polices public behavior. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Boreas, the god of the North Wind, blows Odysseus across the Mediterranean. 4th-century BCE pot, Thebes. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University. Now Washington, like Xerxes, crosses seas,Assured the world must bow before its might;But nations rise beyond its old decrees,And build without permission – or its light. –V.P. In the London Review of Books, Emily Wilson, the renowned translator of Homer’s Odyssey from Greek to English in 2017, made her views plain about Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey. Nolan, who won an Oscar for Oppenheimer (2023), had read Wilson’s translation and borrowed from it. But Wilson felt that the interpretation…

[ad_1] As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran grinds into its sixth month, it’s clear to all but the most intellectually-dishonest [Donald] Trump loyalists and war-bent Israel-sympathizers that it’s been a spectacular failure. A war of aggression that was supposed to precipitate a revolution has instead galvanized popular support of the Iranian government in defiance of the country’s tormentors, who’ve killed thousands of their fellow citizens and destroyed civilian infrastructure. A war that was launched to neutralize Israel’s principal rival seems certain to leave that rival far more geopolitically powerful than before, while driving Americans’ support for Israel to record lows.…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Sdkb – CC BY-SA 4.0 “Words of advice for President Donald Trump as he tries to extricate himself from the mess of the Iran war: Just stop talking.  Let America’s overwhelming military and economic power do the work.  Job one is still to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and I’m all for the use of selective military power to get that done.  If Iran keeps obstructing the strait, it invites a continuing military response”  (David Ignatius, The Washington Post, July 14, 2026, Opinion) For the past few decades, Ignatius has been an apologist for the Pentagon’s use…

[ad_1] “This is not a race issue,” said even Hawaiian Republican party leaders as they denounced a local white resident’s actions. But race is indeed the issue, and a new lawsuit seeks to challenge it. Hawaii, one of the most expensive states in America, basically gives away land, but only to people of the designated ethnicity—in this case those with at least 50 percent Native Hawaiian blood. This scheme functions as reparations. For those sidelined, it looks like the kind of reverse discrimination prohibited by the 14th Amendment. How does Hawaii get away with this? The 18th and 19th centuries…

[ad_1] Take a break from stories about Schrödinger’s Iran War and feed your brain on these fascinating Monday Grail news briefs! Deep in a Spanish cave, archaeologists discovered a puzzling set of ancient inscriptions – could they be evidence of a mysterious subterranean cult? Inflammation may trigger persistent ‘out-of-body’ experiences, emerging research hints. Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky. How art invented humanity: When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images. ‘We have no freaking clue’ what weight-loss drugs are…

[ad_1] The desire to ban speech, in any form, is an example of insecurity inside society and government. Knowing that certain words or images may in some way draw revulsion and offense is a risk an individual must take. Not everyone will experience the same offense or revulsion, and some may even find arousal or delight in such words or images. It’s what makes the human experience unique and it is why free expression is a sacred thing. Shiloh Hendrix, an American woman, has recently been found guilty on one count of disorderly conduct following a viral video clip of…

[ad_1] Crockett, California, is located on the Carquinez Strait, a forty-minute drive from Oakland, and popularly known as “Sugartown.” This small, unincorporated town of thirty-two hundred residents is the longtime home of the California and Hawaii Sugar (C&H) refinery, one of the last cane sugar processors in the western United States. For more than a month starting on June 15, ninety-three warehouse workers represented by Local 6 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) were on strike against a straight-up union-busting effort by the refinery’s owner, ASR Group, led by the billionaire Fanjul family. Members of Local 10 of ILWU, who unload the…

[ad_1] The West has sleepwalked into mass migration for more than a decade. Will a glaring breach of its borders jar it awake? Douglas Murray weighs the case. [ad_2] Source link

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