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This essay was written by Hannah Spier, MD, author of PsychobabbleWithSpier. She is a Psychiatrist in the Netherlands, which alongside Canada, allows patients to chose euthanasia in cases of depression, anorexia and other mental health problems. In 2024, the Netherlands reported a record 219 people killed through state-sanctioned euthanasia for
Asia
The Chinese military continues to increase its exercises around Taiwan, with the most notable instance being a surprise blockade drill consisting of 19 identified People’s Liberation Army Navy ships. The Trump administration has reaffirmed the U.S.’s commitment to maintaining peace using deterrence in the Taiwan Strait at
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Dear friends, Last night, on the Shabbat of Behar-Bechukotai, the 26th of Iyyar, 5785, I officially converted to Judaism. After studying Judaism in Brooklyn for 2 years when I lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn, I moved to an area without a temple for almost 4 years to recover from anorexia.
Academia
A professor at the prestigious Berklee College of Music — often compared to The Juilliard School in Manhattan — has been fired after years of antisemitic comments surfaced, with the African American professor now, surprisingly, claiming that he himself is the victim of antisemitism. Berklee College of Music has fired their Brass
Academia
This is a guest essay from Z.E. Silver. Follow him on Substack. If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self [only], what am I? And if not now, when? - Pirkei Avot 1:14 Shalom, But if I am
Antisemitism
The following is Elias Rodriguez’s manifesto, published a day before he entered the Capitol Jewish Museum, where two people—Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgram, 27—were killed. The two were a couple, and Yaron had planned to fly to Israel next week with her to propose in front
Antisemitism
Two members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., were murdered shortly after 9:00 p.m. last night when a gunman breached an event at the Capitol Jewish Museum and opened fire. The victims, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgram, 27, met while working at the Israeli Embassy.
Academia
In what appears to be an almost impossible academic publication, three self-identified queer graduates from Yale-NUS (Yale University-Singapore) have managed to get one of their “zines” published by Taylor & Francis—one of the top five academic publishers in the world. The paper — titled “The Anthropussy: An Ecolesbian Manifesto” — was
Celebrity
For years, I lived two lives. To the public, I was bold and unapologetic—the singer who wore the “Make America Great Again” dress to the Grammys, the conservative firebrand who turned heads and made headlines. But behind the spotlight, beyond the flash of cameras and curated social media posts,
Antisemitism
A Jewish watchdog group has revealed that Dr. Hassan Hamad, a cardiologist based in Madisonville, Kentucky, has posted what they describe as a series of "antisemitic hate rants" over the past several years. Dr. Hamad was recently welcomed to the Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Hospital, according to a
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The U.S. Department of State, established in 1789, is the oldest federal executive department, created to execute the foreign policy of the newly formed American republic. On July 21 of that year, President George Washington signed the act that transformed the Department of Foreign Affairs into the Department of
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Yesterday, history was made in the Roman Catholic Church with the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, the first American to ascend to the papacy. For Catholics in the United States and across the Western world, this is more than a symbolic milestone. It is a