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Things To Do This Week – The New York Times

| August 2, 2020

Here is a sampling of the weeks events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. The multimedia artist Tony Oursler explores how technology touches humanity through pieces that blend video, painting and collage

Twitter Finally Bans the Nazi. No, Not That One. No, the Other One. – Gizmodo Australia

| August 2, 2020

Twitter has finally booted David Duke, a former KKK grand wizard and founder of the KKK revival group the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan. Why has it taken years for a company whose policies explicitly bar individuals who affiliate with and promote violent extremist groups? Gizmodo wondered about this earlier this month and asked Twitter, to which the company replied that Duke is not currently a member of the KKK and has distanced himself from the organisation publicly.

The Hagia Sophia as a palimpsest: Memories of the monument in five acts – Scroll.in

| August 2, 2020

Saint Sophia, Hagia Sophia, the Church of the Great Wisdom, Aya Sofia. There have been so many forms to the pristine rose.

‘Chaos’ at Victoria’s Epping Gardens: how privatised aged care has failed during the coronavirus pandemic – The Guardian

| August 2, 2020

Melbourne aged care home Epping Gardens, where 85 residents and 35 staff have tested positive for Covid-19, is in chaos, a relative of one of the infected residents has told Guardian Australia. Nobody has the answer, but she cant go back to Epping Gardens, said Carla Gangi, whose 89-year-old grandmother Concetta Mineo was hospitalised on Tuesday. Guardian Australia has learned that an additional 11 Epping Gardens residents were to be sent to hospital on Thursday, in addition to two who were hospitalised on Wednesday due to coronavirus.

The day after: Israel may be the exception to a COVID-19 baby bust – Haaretz.com

| August 2, 2020

Mary, 20, was pregnant when the coronavirus reached Papua New Guinea. Four weeks after the country went into lockdown, doctors refused to treat her because of the closure, even after she collapsed in the clinic. She was suffering from pregnancy toxemia and her fetus died in utero

Thessalonikis Jews: ‘We cant let this be forgotten; if its forgotten, it will die’ – The Guardian

| August 2, 2020

Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the small community of Sephardic Jews that lives on in the Greek city of Thessaloniki is looking to its past to help safeguard its future.

David Galante, 94, Auschwitz Survivor Who Taught About The Holocaust After A 50-Year Silence – Forward

| August 2, 2020

Image by youtube David Galante BUENOS AIRES (JTA) It took 50 years for David Galante to begin talking about his experience at Auschwitz. Born to a Sephardic family in Rhodes in 1925, Galante studied in a Jewish school as a child, learning Italian, French and Hebrew

Israel to relax synagogue attendance restrictions ahead of Tisha BAv, ministers say – Cleveland Jewish News

| August 2, 2020

Israels Health Ministry will increase the number of worshipers permitted in synagogues ahead of Tisha BAv, which begins on Wednesday evening, the heads of the ultra-Orthodox political parties announced on Monday.

Security guard prevented an attack in Synagogue Mariupol, Ukraine – The Times of Israel

| August 2, 2020

On 28th July an unknown man tried to commit a terrorist attack with an axe in the Synagogue of Mariupol in Ukraine. He hit and wounded the security guard, but fortunately the guard managed to neutralize the aggressor and to grab the axe. There were unarmed people in the synagogue, but everyone survived.

LISTEN: Into Years of Fraud: A Wounded Rabbi Admits to Wrongdoing – NBC San Diego

| August 2, 2020

On April 27, 2019, a 19-year-old walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue and opened fire; killing one woman and injuring others, including the synagogues Rabbi. Through the sorrow, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein had a message for San Diego and grew to become an international symbol of peace. But prosecutors say he had a dark secret


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