Abortion is not a ‘Jewish value’ for all Jews

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“There are different opinions among reasonably informed people about whether, from a Jewish perspective, Dobbs bodes well or ill…. What isn’t arguable is that our religion considers abortion forbidden in all but rare situations.” - RNS

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Coach Joe Kennedy goes to the Supreme Court and the media coverage gets a B+

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“Many of the headlines said the majority-conservative court ‘appeared sympathetic’ to the coach, which I disagree with. The justices appeared more confused by the conflicting narratives…. Breyer plaintively noted at one point: ‘One of my problems in this case, is that the parties seem to have different views of the facts.’” - Get Religion

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Religious liberty is not ‘Christian Nationalism’

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“Most appeals to discredit Christian Nationalism frame any sort of conservative Christian concern as an identifiable subset of the larger Christian Nationalism category and therefore, disqualified.” - BPNews

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Pew: In the last 5 years the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half

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“Nearly eight-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (78%) say they have ‘a lot’ or ‘some’ trust in the information that comes from national news organizations – 43 percentage points higher than Republicans and Republican leaners (35%) – according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted June 14-27, 2021.” - Pew

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5 ways to spot fake ‘facts’

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“These tips can be used when evaluating the flood of information and misinformation flowing into your life every day” - C.Post

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How the News Disrupts Our Belonging

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“Today the Soviet Union is gone but newspeak and a thousand forms of disinformation thrive. I can do frontline reporting … and a reader will email to say I didn’t see what I saw because it doesn’t conform to a political narrative. She and the rest of us can fall prey to platform algorithms and manipulated content disgorged from a news cycle that never sleeps.

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