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Haaretz.com 

Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews don't have a monopoly on the Torah

When Haredi politicians, fulminating against the threat of mandatory military service, declare their yeshiva students alone safeguard Jewish heritage, why don't Israel's other Jewish communities dispute this spurious monopoly?

OpEdNews.com 

New Billy Graham statue at Capitol should stay, but one part needs to change

On May 16, a statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol. It's North Carolina's official entry to the Crypt of the U.S. Capitol. We believe that Graham's statue deserves to stay. It's the two religious inscriptions at the base that cross the dividing line between church and state, and we'd like to see those removed.

Haaretz.com 

Netanyahu no longer controls events in Israel - and it's driving him to distraction

The ruling by Israel's top court on the Haredi draft exemption could have reality-changing ramifications ■ If anyone still had any doubt, this week it became even clearer: Netanyahu will not agree to a commission of inquiry in the October 7 debacle ■ Has Israel already adopted the 'French Law,' even though the Knesset still has not passed it?

Deadline.com 

POTUS Debate TV Review: Biden Shows His Age While Trump Tosses Out One Whopper After Another With No Fact-Checking From CNN Moderators

If there was any winner in tonight’s first presidential debate, it was CNN. If there was a loser, it was absolutely Joe Biden. Throwing the already tight race into a tailspin for the faltering incumbent almost from the very beginning, the most memorable line maybe Biden’s inability to finish some of his own sentences. Otherwise, […]

OpEdNews.com 

War Is Making Us Poor! - The Book

As I say in the book: "Can we blame all of America's crises and deficiencies on the military? Perhaps not directly. But we certainly can blame our chronic inability to find the money to fix things on the endless wars and exorbitant DOD budgets."----The DOD consumes the biggest portion of our national budget. That makes it the "Achilles heel" for the entire edifice of catastrophic priorities.----Time to unite and act!

Miningweekly.com 

Mexico to seek deal over disputed mining concession with Chinese lithium firm

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday that his government will seek an agreement with Chinese lithium miner Ganfeng while still defending Mexico's rights, after the firm filed an arbitration case over a disputed concession. Lopez Obrador did not flesh out a potential agreement that could resolve the dispute, but instead stressed his government's successful push in 2022 to nationalize Mexico's lithium industry, which reserves the mineral's future production for the state.