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News

Michael Bloomberg Donates $1.8B to JHU to Make Admissions ‘Need-Blind’

13 hours ago | Baltimore

The donation announced on Nov. 18 is in addition to the $1.5 billion that Bloomberg, 76, has donated to the school in past years to support research, teaching and financial aid.

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NY Times Investigation Features Facebook Trading Anti-Semitism Charges with Its Critics

Nov 15, 2018 | National

Facebook complained that some its critics were using conspiratorial anti-Semitic imagery even as it hired a firm that went after George Soros.

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Police ID Man Who Shouted at ‘Fiddler,’ Say He Was Intoxicated — Baltimore Fishbowl

Nov 15, 2018 | Baltimore

The theater said in a statement this afternoon that security staff and ushers on Wednesday night “were able to remedy the situation and remove the offending audience member quickly, coordinating efforts with local police, who met the man as he was escorted out of the building.”

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Community

This College Student Created a Way for Nonbinary People to Speak Hebrew

7 hours ago

For nonbinary Jews, including some transgender people, speaking Hebrew — or praying or participating in services — can be fraught.

Showing Up Offers a Means of Resisting Violence and Hate

Nov 16, 2018

A maniac had come for us. Would others, the many, many non-maniacs, speak out, show up and hold us in our grief, panic and fear, wonders Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.