Exercise Keeps the Brain Young: Study
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin Exercise can combat cognitive decline, according to the results of a new study. Older adults who did high amounts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity had a 36% […]
Security Is Being Massively Tightened at Times Square Ahead of New Year’s Eve
Source: Time By Jake Pearson / AP (NEW YORK) — Massive 20-ton sanitation trucks, weighted with an extra 15 tons of sand, will surround the iconic New Year’s Eve celebration in […]
The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice
Source: The Atlantic By CANDICE NORWOOD In 2016, long simmering tensions over race and identity in America boiled over. Years of conflict between police and minority communities, clashing views concerning abortion […]
Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy
Source: The Atlantic By JOE PINSKER There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being […]
‘Dad was an alcoholic’: MP Jonathan Ashworth urges action on drinking
Source: The Guardian BY Anushka Asthana and Denis Campbell Childhood memories of growing up with an alcoholic father have prompted the shadow health secretary to call for greater recognition of the […]
Making it easier for young foreigners to become Swiss
VOTE FEBRUARY 12 Making it easier for young foreigners to become Swiss By Urs Geiser DEC 29, 2016 Applications for a Swiss passport may take a long time and be quite expensive under the regular procedure (Keystone) Should grandchildren of immigrants have privileged access to a Swiss passport? The political […]
Palestinian woman shot, arrested in alleged knife attack in Jerusalem
Published December 30th, 2016 A Palestinian woman lies on the ground after she was shot and wounded by Israeli security forces while approaching the Qalandia checkpoint with a knife, between Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on December 30, 2016, according to Israeli police. (AFP/Abbas Momani) A Palestinian woman was […]
Lust before law: Israel’s top rabbis ignore legal boundaries, encourage polygamy
A Jewish bride sits next to her groom during the Mitzvah Tans dance ritual following their wedding in an ultra-orthodox neighbourhood in Jerusalem. (AFP/File) Each year, a number of Israeli rabbis affiliated with the rabbinate give permission for dozens of Orthodox Jewish men to take a second wife, despite the […]
Too little too late
Dec 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US Secretary of State John Kerry outlined his vision for peace between Palestinians and Israelis in the boldest manner yet. His blueprint for peace entails Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian lands and Jerusalem as the shared capital of the two sides that would have to […]
Jordan ‘will hold Israel responsible’ for any harm to Aqsa
By JT – Dec 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL AMMAN — The government on Thursday strongly condemned Israeli’s provocative policies as the occupation state frequently allows Jewish extremists to storm the compound of Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif. Al Haram Al Sharif is the third holiest site in […]
We are not living in a ‘post-truth’ world, we are living the lies of others
Nigel Farage is not a Nazi and nor is Donald Trump. But what is terrifying – and deeply akin to fascism – is our ability to ‘think’ our way from truth into lies Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 29 December 2016 We do not live in a “post-truth” world, neither in the Middle East nor in […]
India opens first school for transgender pupils
Source: BBC A residential school for transgender people has been opened in the Indian city of Kochi, to help adults who dropped out of school finish their education. Transgender people […]
Pentecostal church looks to white Britons to boost congregations
Source: The Guardian The UK’s biggest and fastest growing Pentecostal church is embarking on an ambitious expansion programme in 2017, in part aimed at attracting white Britons to join its […]
Bears Ears and Gold Butte: Obama creates two nature preserves
Source: BBC President Barack Obama has unilaterally designated two new “national monument” nature preserves in the western US states of Nevada and Utah. The Bears Ears National Monument and the […]
American Jews Divided Over Strain in U.S.-Israel Relations
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NAGOURNEY and SHARON OTTERMAN For Rabbi Gerald Sussman of Temple Emanu-El on Staten Island, the Obama administration’s recent confrontation with Israel was a […]
With the two-state solution a distant dream, Palestinians ask if it’s time to push for a one-state solution
Source: Los Angeles Times By Joshua Mitnick For nearly three decades, governments around the world have insisted that the best way to end the most intractable conflict in the Middle […]
In ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Israel, Separate Lives and Divergent Narratives
Source: The New York Times By PETER BAKER JERUSALEM — The two front-page headlines told very different stories about Secretary of State John Kerry’s lengthy address about Middle East peace. […]
Catholics in China should integrate into socialist society-senior party official
Source: Reuters Chinese Catholics must run their church independently, implying at arms length from the Vatican, and guide believers on a “Sinicisation path”, said a senior Communist Party official, as […]
Inauguration speaker Franklin Graham: God allowed Donald Trump to win
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) The Rev. Franklin Graham isn’t sure which Scripture he’ll read at the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. The evangelist and head […]
Future of US relationship with UN in doubt
Source: CNN By Stewart Patrick Stewart Patrick is the senior fellow and director of the program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. The views […]