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May 20, 2022

The Shmita Debate: A Clash of Utopias

The rules of the sabbatical year, shmita, require farmers to desist from working their fields and to open up their fields, and all the produce within them, to anyone.

The Little Known Dangers of Celiac Disease

According to the Celiac Disease Foundation, the disease causes the body a number of issues, including attacking its own small intestine. This can result in heart disease, cancer and other severe health conditions. 

Two Things Lakers Fans Must Do This Month

The HBO series “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” is the closest thing Angelenos have to watching a hometown NBA team in the playoffs this spring.

Tlaib Introduces “Recognizing the Nakba” Resolution in Congress

“The resolution stated that after Israel’s war for independence, the Jewish state “had depopulated more than 400 Palestinian villages and cities” and that “the Nakba refers not only to a historical event but to an ongoing process of Israel’s expropriation of Palestinian land and its dispossession of the Palestinian people that continues to this day through the establishment and expansion of approximately 300 illegal settlements and outposts in the occupied Palestinian West Bank in which approximately 674,000 Israelis reside as of 2020.”

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