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...Latin America to allow same-sex couples to marry and to have the same rights as heterosexual unions. A separate motion confirmed that the couples would be able to adopt children. "This is a huge triumph that has followed so many years of struggle," said campaigner Kin Castañeda, who stood next to her partner in the assembly gallery, the two women wearing identical white Mexican folk dresses. "It is a recognition of our basic rights. And that is a cause for celebration today...
...much the same way that it funded—until now, that is—Arab schools that continued indoctrinating their students with subtle hatred for the state, the Israeli government, with generous subsidies, essentially pays for the rioting Toldot Aharon members of the Eda Haredim community as they perpetuate their own forms of hatred and, ultimately, disloyalty to the state. In just this month alone, they have protested, with the same stone-throwing intensity, the installation of a municipal parking lot near Jerusalem’s tourist-heavy Old City that would remain open on the Sabbath; in late...
...orthodox Toldot Aharon sect protested en masse the arrest of a mother of five, taken into custody for starving her three-year-old son until he weighed no fewer than seven kilograms. Toldot Aharon is among the most conservative Hasidic sects that constitute Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Eda Haredim community, and, as an anti-Zionist organization, the sect considers any outside intervention (such as the arrest of one of its members by the “Zionist” Israeli authorities) cause for revolt. Hence the violent demonstrators hurling stones into crowds of nearby police officers and civilians...
...Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library acquired a substantial collection of materials in December centered around the musical, acting and political career of renowned Panamanian salsa singer Rubén Blades. Blades graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1985, and ran for the Panamian Presidency in 1994. He is currently Panama’s outgoing minister of tourism. The collection adds significantly to the library’s Latino music collection that has in recent years lagged behind collections of African or East Asian musical history. “There’s been a growing interest in Latino music...
...March—en route to a fourth-place finish and an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Championships on June 11-14 in Des Moines, Iowa. Saturday’s jump came on her third attempt and marks Christensen’s third consecutive outdoor NCAA qualifier. Sophomore Eda Karesin and freshman Jessica Fronk rounded out the women’s side, both competing in the javelin event. Karesin’s 41.96-meter throw on her third attempt notched her a 17th spot, while Fronk’s 41.26-meter toss put her at 21st, just a centimeter away...