Monthly Archives: április 2015
Once unifying, religious freedom laws have become divisive
In the span of a week, legislation aimed at protecting individual religious freedoms — adopted by a near unanimous Congress more than two decades ago and present in 20 states — went from benign measures with broad support to being attacked as a new „license to discriminate. Read more » »
14 De Abril Encontro Com Carlos Brickmann Na B’nai B’rith
CARLOS BRICKMANN De 1963 até hoje, para usar uma frase clássica de Octavio Frias de Oliveira, vi tudo acontecer, e ao contrário também. Vi a Marcha da Família e, aos 19 anos de idade, editei o material na Folha de S.Paulo; vejo agora as manifestaçőes antigovernamentais e escrevo sobre elas em diversos jornais, em colunas assinadas. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Dismayed EU Conference Diluting Focus On Anti-Semitism
The European Union started Passover on a sour note, announcing that the much-anticipated upcoming conference on combating rising anti-Semitism in Europe will not share equal billing with Islamophobia. Read more » »
Pursuing protection for religious freedom not discriminatory
If you wanted Arkansas House Bill 1228 to allow businesses to avoid serving gay people, you might just be a redneck. Read more » »
EU rights conference to give equal billing to anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred
Jewish organizations worldwide expressed shock and dismay over the weekend following the announcement that the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency is planning on holding a conference that implies an equivalence between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Read more » »
Once unifying, religious freedom laws have become divisive
FILE – In this March 30, 2015 file photo, Rep. Warwick Sabin, center, D-Little Rock, cheers with others protesting over new religious objections laws at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Read more » »
Peoria City/County and Tazewell County health inspections in February
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Judge Hugh Glickstein, advocate for children, dies at 83
Judge Hugh S. Glickstein, whose tenure on the 4th District Court of Appeals bench were marked by his attacks on bigotry and his tireless advocacy for children, died Friday, his family confirmed. He was 83. Glickstein served 19 years on the district bench before retiring in September 1998. Read more » »
A Complicated Chess Game
| Print | E-mail Saturday, 04 April 2015 10: 34 And a Liberty Holiday in military prison by Adam Keller I n the beginning of this week, the far-right paper Makor Rishon published an exclusive report entitled „Germany gave the order not to visit Ma’aleh Adumim – because it is Palestinian territory”. Read more » »
Melbourne – geographically down under but close at heart
It happens whenever I’m in an airport in Hong Kong or Bangkok waiting to take a connecting flight to Australia. The coarse Australian accent, which I’ve spent years trying to disguise, suddenly overrides the carefully cultivated rounded vowels and emerges in full force to match the accents of most of my fellow travelers. Read more » »
