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from Algemeiner
New York-based Jewish newspaper
Hebron in History and Memory
My first visit to Hebron came nearly half a century ago with a group of “disaffected Jewish academics,” chosen by the American Jewish Committee to experience Israel for the first time and — perhaps — to overcome their indifference to the Jewish state. As our bus passed a massive rectangular stone edifice I asked our guide to identify it. “Machpelah,” he responded. What’s that? I asked. The burial site of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs, he replied. It was a transformative moment that is revived annually as Shabbat Chaye Sarah nears.
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Hebron in History and Memory
My first visit to Hebron came nearly half a century ago with a group of “disaffected Jewish academics,” chosen by the American Jewish Committee to experience Israel for the first time and — perhaps — to overcome their indifference to the Jewish state. As our bus passed a massive rectangular stone edifice I asked our guide to identify it. “Machpelah,” he responded. What’s that? I asked. The burial site of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs, he replied. It was a transformative moment that is revived annually as Shabbat Chaye Sarah nears.
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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Covid-19 may be quietly creeping back into China’s two largest urban centers – Shanghai and Beijing – after outbreaks at a key airport and a frozen food warehouse. Cadres in charge of the megacities, each with a population of more than 20 million, have reputedly been told by the central leadership to nip the flare-ups in the bud, or risk demotion or even negligence charges.
Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD routed all electoral rivals but Myanmar is not necessarily headed in a more democratic direction. Myanmar’s November 8 elections exceeded all expectations with a massive margin of victory for the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. While final results may not be known for several days, clear patterns of an NLD landslide, perhaps even bigger than the stunning victory of 2015, are apparent. Suu Kyi knows full well that this election landslide delivered one winner and a diverse host of losers. There may well be a significant loss of lives of many voters and Myanmar’s public health care system if November 8 becomes a series of coronavirus super-spreader events.
“When I am president, human rights will be at the core of US foreign policy,” Joe Biden pledged in a New York Times interview earlier this year. Now as US president-elect, Biden will have several weeks to recruit a foreign policy team geared towards that aim before his official inauguration in January. But Biden will quickly face a realpolitik dilemma in strategic Southeast Asia, where the US is pitted in a competition with China for influence among the region’s many less-than-democratic leaders and regimes.
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from Axios
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, news website
DOJ official steps down over Barr's voter fraud investigation memo
Richard Pilger, a Department of Justice official who oversees investigations of voting crimes, stepped down from his role Monday after Attorney General Bill Barr authorized U.S. attorneys to probe alleged elections fraud, the New York Times first reported. Why it matters: President Trump has refused to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden, alleging a conspiracy of widespread voting fraud, but he has yet to provide relevant evidence.
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from iFIBER One News
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Ephrata, WAMcKay Healthcare resident dies from COVID-19; more than 30 cases reported at Soap Lake facility
A resident of McKay Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Soap Lake has died from COVID-19 and more than 30 positive cases have been reported in the facility. All COVID-19 positive patients at the long-term care facility have been moved out of the facility. The outbreak is the first COVID-19 cases at the facility since the onset of the pandemic, according to the health district.
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from The North American Anglican
Media/News Company: "A journal of orthodox theology in the Anglican tradition"
It is a commonly told story in Anglicanism. In the century before 1833, Anglican sacramental practice and spirituality was a “drab and spiritually barren environment.” Communion was infrequent; altars (or should that be tables?) were used for storage; a bare memorialism was ascendant; Latitudinarian moralism prevailed, displacing sacramental grace; and parsons were more concerned with foxhunting than Sacraments. This essay aims to show that the story so commonly told is grievously wrong. In the decades before July, 14th of 1833, the dominant theological tradition in the late Georgian Church of England advocated a rich Eucharistic theology which encouraged a warm Sacramental piety. Latitudinarian moralism and Hoadlian memorialism did not hold sway. Instead, a “feast of faith” sat upon the altar, “its benefits” recognized and celebrated as “present and unspeakably great.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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