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LinkedIn issues warning to a site shaming pro-Palestinian sentiment.
Online posts asking to “#PrayForPalestine.” Entreaties for peace. Pleas to “Free Gaza.” Over the last 10 days, a website called anti-israel-employees.com published more than 17,000 posts, which one of the people behind the site said had been taken ...
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World
Passion for Palestinian Cause Had Faded, but Violence in Gaza Reignited It
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza, in retaliation for a deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel, brought a new outpouring of support in the Arab world for the Palestinian quest for a state.
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World
Here’s the latest on the war.
With the humanitarian situation growing more desperate in Gaza, the Rafah crossing between the blockaded territory and Egypt still hasn’t opened to aid, a day after a United Nations-led deal appeared to have had laid the groundwork to allow trucks ...
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News
To Combat the Opioid Epidemic, Cities Ponder Facilities for Drug Use
Philadelphia is again the focus of a national campaign to open — or restrict — sites where people use drugs under medical supervision.
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US
Cities Foster Serendipity. But Can They Do It When Workers Are at Home?
Revisiting a theory about chance collisions and innovation.
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Newyork
The Essential Skills for Being Human
If you ever saw the old movie “Fiddler on the Roof,” you know how warm and emotional Jewish families can be. They are always hugging, singing, dancing, laughing and crying together. I come from another kind of Jewish family. The culture of my ...
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Newyork
Can Twitter, uh, X, Survive Elon Musk?
What does it take to destroy a nexus — a place, real or virtual, where people go because they expect to find other people with whom they want to interact? How much do you need to degrade their experience before they stop coming, initiating a sort of ...
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Newyork
Why House Republicans Can’t Function, According to a House Republican
The House of Representatives has been enmeshed in chaos since the former Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out on Oct. 3 by members of his own conference. Steve Scalise then ran for the speakership but withdrew his candidacy, and multiple ...
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World
Why South Korea Has So Many Protests, and What That Means
A recent rally in Seoul carried the sound of a rock festival — high-amp speakers throbbing with the K-pop hit “Gangnam Style” — if not the look of one. The crowd of mostly elderly people waved South Korean and American flags to the song’s revised ...
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Newyork
An Evolving Moral High Ground in the Israel-Gaza War
The terrorist attack by Hamas against Israelis — the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust — was horrid, barbaric and inexcusable. Israel has a right to defend itself and pursue the perpetrators. What is happening to innocent citizens ...