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Need to know: Friday, June 23, 2017
Mosque under construction in Mali to honor US teen slain during Ramadan
It took less than 24 hours to crowdsource the funds to build a mosque that will be called Masjid Nabra, which is already under construction.
Judge blocks deportation of Chaldeans and other Iraqis
The ACLU argued that many of those affected are Chaldean Catholics who are “widely recognized as targets of brutal persecution in Iraq.”
US court lifts injunction on Mississippi law seen as anti-LGBT
Opponents said they will likely seek to overturn the decision, arguing that the measure, backed by Christian groups, allowed for sweeping discrimination.
She may be the most unstoppable scientist in the world
First she was shot at on the way to work. Then her house was destroyed by a bomb. That didn't deter Eqbal Dauqan, a biochemistry professor in Yemen.
State Department’s anti-Semitism monitoring office to be unstaffed as of July 1
A source familiar with the office’s workings told JTA that its remaining two staffers, each working half-time or less, would be reassigned as of that date.
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Israeli court stands up for woman in airline gender seat swap case
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On World Refugee Day we must be willing to separate truth from ‘willful blindness’
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