The University of California at Los Angeles blocked Jewish students from portions of campus when protests erupted in response to the Israel-Hamas War, a district judge has ruled, citing their faith as the sole factor. “Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith,” U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi said in granting a preliminary injunction Aug. 13 in the lawsuit filed by three Jewish students against the school. (Chandler, Baptist Press)
Read MoreJacob Forrest is a 24-year-old who lives in Miami and works for a health insurance agency. He likes going out with friends in downtown Fort Lauderdale. He should be saving a lot of money ... but like many young people, that's not where his head's at. He's "spiraling." (Oliver, USA Today)
Read MoreAdministrators are changing protest policies and adding programming on how to have more constructive arguments. University presidents are taking a stricter approach to the rules of daily life for students, hoping to tamp down protests and return campus life to a state of normalcy. (Korn, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreThe list was the first of its kind in the UK, and not uncontroversial (some critics declared it “anti-literary” or even “unEnglish”) but no one could have guessed just how important it would go on to be. Today, becoming a Sunday Times bestseller is the ultimate benchmark of commercial success for authors and publishers alike. (Segal, Ditum & Hackett, The Sunday Times)
Read MoreThe posters are instantly recognizable, a fixture on storefronts around the world whenever the Shen Yun Performing Arts show comes to town. The show is one of the most visible parts of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, whose three-decade history includes a brutal crackdown in China, claims that its members’ organs were harvested and a transnational repression campaign that continues to this day. (Hong, Rothfeld & May, The New York Times)
Read MoreAny visitor to Stonehenge in southern England will have marveled at how prehistoric Britons managed to transport, carve and carefully arrange the large standing stones that can weigh up to 30 tons. Now it turns out one of those stones – the 6-ton altar stone at the center… (Luhnow, The Wall Street Journal)
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