(2) Watch live: Thousands rally against gun violence at March for Our Lives protest in Washington, DC – YouTube

Up to 50,000 protesters were expected in Washington, D.C., for a march against gun violence, according to a permit from the National Park Service. Several hundred marches were planned across the country, including in New York City, Las Vegas and Chicago. It marks the latest widespread move by March for Our Lives, which was founded by teens after 17 people were killed in a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. That year, the group rallied more than 1 million people in the nation’s capital and hosted sister rallies around the country and world, ramping up public pressure to change gun laws that – four years later – have largely still not been addressed.

Parashat Nasso, & Rituals vs. Status

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Nasso,  is the 35th (35/54 or 52, depending on the year: this year, 5782, we read 54 separate parshiot…) reading in the annual cycle, and the second parashah in the book of B’midbar/Numbers.   This parshah is also the longest parashah in the Torah (no, I have no idea why the rabbis chose to organize it this way, except that in the summer, those long days were more suited, probably, to studying the readings…).

     So, this week, readers of the full Annual Cycle for this portion (are there any Masorti/Conservative movement shuls still on the annual cycle?) will encounter a variety of odd, possibly even abusive, rituals, like the famous Sotah, vs. the Priestly Blessing (Duchaning), and more gifts to the hierarchy.  An innocent woman could be subjected to the ritual of Sotah merely upon the whim of a jealous husband, on the…

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Sonhos

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Só vende sonhos, aqueles que acreditam neles. Só os buscam, quem expressa a poesia que vem do coração. Para sonhar, é preciso ser ousado- correr riscos- para vivê-los. Mais, é preciso compreender que independente destes, se tornarem realidade ou não, é necessário correr atrás. Sim, muitas vezes se faz necessário ‘despetalar as lágrimas’ do rosto, e voltar a acreditar nas pérolas que Deus já abençoou. Quem não acredita é porque já deixou de viver, de sentir prazer, ou apreciar as primaveras nascidas nos jardins internos. Mas, uma coisa eu digo: sensibilidade e imaginação, são os melhores propulsores do mundo. Você cria, acredita e trabalha para fazer a vida brotar ” verdinha” bela, magnífica nos solos em que antes foi povoado por experiências traumáticas. Eu entendo que esses acidentes, por vezes criam a leve sensação de que somos impotentes diante da vida. Mas nao, não somos. É na força bruta que…

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More pressure on Myanmar needed via a combination of ways: Saifuddin

There is a need to put more pressure on the military authority in Myanmar to resolve the current crisis and it should be done through a “combination of ways”, said Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah.

Speaking on the topic titled “Myanmar: Finding A Way Forward” at a Plenary Session of The 19th Shangri-La Dialogue today, Saifuddin said one of the ways “is to talk to people whom the Junta would want to listen (to).”

“We have to also try that area; and if the Junta is not going to listen to any one of us from Asean, then we have to look at Asean Dialogue Partners that the Junta may want to listen to,” he added.

 

Source: More pressure on Myanmar needed via a combination of ways: Saifuddin

Number of cases of monkeypox across Canada now up to 112 | CBC News

Monkeypox is continuing to spread across Canada — particularly in Quebec — Canada’s chief public health officer said Friday.

Speaking to reporters, Dr. Theresa Tam said 112 cases of the disease have been detected across the country — 98 in Quebec. There are nine cases in Ontario, four in Alberta and one in British Columbia.

Source: Number of cases of monkeypox across Canada now up to 112 | CBC News

Number of cases of monkeypox across Canada now up to 112 | CBC News

Monkeypox is continuing to spread across Canada — particularly in Quebec — Canada’s chief public health officer said Friday. Speaking to reporters, Dr. Theresa Tam said 112 cases of the disease have been detected across the country — 98 in Quebec. There are nine cases in Ontario, four in Alberta and one in British Columbia.

Source: Number of cases of monkeypox across Canada now up to 112 | CBC News

Sociopolitical and psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States during summer 2021 – ScienceDirect

we found that the strongest correlate of vaccine hesitancy was belief in misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, though we surmise that this common explanation may be endogenous to vaccine hesitancy. Political beliefs explained more variation in vaccine hesitancy—and in particular, vaccine refusal—after belief in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation was excluded from the analysis.

Source: Sociopolitical and psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States during summer 2021 – ScienceDirect