#Why the cultural elite truly despises Hanukkah

#Why the cultural elite truly despises Hanukkah

“#Why the cultural elite truly despises Hanukkah” Our cultural elites’ least ­favorite Jewish holiday has arrived: Hanukkah, of course. Why did Hanukkah irk everyone from the late Christopher Hitchens, who memorably ­derided it as a “celebration of tribal Jewish backwardness,” to author Sarah Prager, who took to the pages of The New York Times recently…

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#Woman sues boyfriend for not proposing after 8 years

#Woman sues boyfriend for not proposing after 8 years

“#Woman sues boyfriend for not proposing after 8 years” Not putting a ring on it put this man in court. A story first reported by the Kenyan news site Tuko has gone viral globally for its protagonist’s folk hero-like litigiousness. According to Tuko, Gertrude Ngoma grew tired of waiting for her boyfriend of eight years…

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#How to stand up to China and other commentary

#How to stand up to China and other commentary

“#How to stand up to China and other commentary” Foreign desk: How To Stand Up to China Beijing’s neighbors took grim note last month when China issued 14 trade demands to Australia, writes Robert A. Manning at The National Interest, because the list seems “a very conscious reprise” of imperial Japan’s “now-infamous Twenty-One Demands” to…

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#Relieved passengers leave Singapore cruise after COVID-19 scare

#Relieved passengers leave Singapore cruise after COVID-19 scare

“#Relieved passengers leave Singapore cruise after COVID-19 scare” SINGAPORE – A Royal Caribbean “cruise-to-nowhere” from Singapore began disembarking its nearly 1,700 passengers who were confined to their cabins for more than 16 hours on Wednesday after a COVID-19 case was detected onboard, forcing the ship back to port. All passengers aboard the Quantum of the…

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