Simon Rex in Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket”: Movie Review
The former Donut Time, a no-frills 24-hour restaurant at the Hollywood intersection of Santa Monica and Highland, was a key focal point for the low-end sex and drug trade operating in the area during Sean Baker's Escape In…
No change in food intake after quitting smoking; a prospective study in Switzerland | BMC…
To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess weight gain and dietary changes in non-smokers to be conducted in Switzerland. Our results show that smoking cessation was associated with a mean weight change of 2.1 kg, corresponding to…
In German town of 30 Jews, restored Art Deco synagogue will house interfaith efforts | JTA
(JTA) - For years after World War II, the magnificent Goerlitz synagogue in Germany housed a family with…
In order to overthrow government, Netanyahu seeks dysfunctional Knesset
The Bennett-Lapid government was sworn in on June 13, now a month old. It is an unprecedented coalition: more ideologically diverse than ever, containing no less than eight factions and holding only the thinnest parliamentary…
Grua / O’Connell Fellows Pursue Eclectic Research
The Grua / O'Connell Awards support the research of students supervised by professors in all…
Privacy laws must change to protect children from social media data collection
Authors are among the most powerful and richest companies on the planet. These are the big social media companies like TikTok (valued at $ 50 billion), Instagram (valued at $ 102 billion) or Facebook (valued at $ 1,000 billion now). On…
Beloved ‘Bitcoin Rabbi’ deals with religious and financial herds on Twitter
JTA - Many of Twitter's cryptocurrency fanatics are often notorious trolls, but one thought leader in particular stands out above the rest. He happens to be a rabbi.
“People on Twitter use it to yell at each other and not be nice,…
Majority of 2011 article co-authored by criminal law committee member plagiarized
Several sections of an article co-authored by Balraj Chauhan, a member of the Interior Ministry's Committee for Criminal Law Reforms, are plagiarized. The article, titled “Good Governance: Search for Accountability Mechanism,” was…
British Chief Rabbi: Ban on chilled meat could make Jewish life in Northern Ireland…
UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has warned that it may become "unsustainable" for Jews to live in Northern Ireland due to an upcoming ban on imports of chilled meats from Britain, as part of the country's Brexit deal with the European…
Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Republican Anti-History
In June, Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The visit was, in its own right, revealing. Earlier in the spring, the Georgian member of the US House compared Food City, a grocery store chain that…