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'(JTA) -- About 45 percent of 1,900 Britons polled favored banning Jewish ritual slaughter and 38 percent said they favored banning nonmedical circumcision.
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When asked about “male circumcision for religious reasons," 38 percent supported a ban, 35 percent opposed a ban and 27 percent were undecided, The Jewish Chronicle reported this week.

Among 18-24 year-olds, 41 percent would ban both nonmedical circumcision in underage boys and ritual slaughter of animals for food.'

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'I’ve covered gender differences in financial issues for years. Periodically, studies come out that say women are worse at planning for retirement than men. They outlive men, on average, and tend to put away less for retirement, so they end up poorer. The studies are pumped out with a frightening degree of regularity by financial institutions and think tanks. But I’ve started to ask: Is it really true that women are worse off in retirement?
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From the EBRI survey, I would gather that male retirees are slightly better off financially than females. The fact that men rely more on their own savings than on government programs proves they’ve done a better job of setting money aside. But the differences are slight, not oceanic.'

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'At an early point in their lives, women have developed a skill that lasts them their entire lifetime, and that is the ability to act/pretend as if they are on the same intellectual level with men, when women are actually superior to them. Men, not being comparatively bright, fall for this act and believe men and women are of equal intelligence. Men don't realize the intellectually inferior position they are in, and therefore women can use men's lack of understanding to their advantage in "outsmarting" men on various levels.'

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'With the spotlight currently shining on female leaders, like Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg, the timing couldn’t be better for next month’s release of the The Athena Doctrine. This groundbreaking new book, which features surveys from 64,000 people in 13 countries, presents an intriguing conclusion: Our world would be a better place if more men thought like women.

I had the chance to catch up with one of the authors, social strategist John Gerzema, to ask him a few questions about the book—and find out what his takeaways are for any business owner, regardless of gender.'

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'White women’s companies have received half of the $177 million that Parkland Memorial Hospital has awarded to minority- and women-owned businesses for the construction of a new public hospital.

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price asked Parkland officials to provide the breakdown as he scrutinizes how Parkland and the new facility are being overseen.

“It’s very interesting to me that in every area, white-women-owned businesses lead the pack,” Price said at Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Dallas County commissioners.'

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'Coalition plans to force teenagers to sit exams at the end of their courses, rather than throughout the year, could discriminate against girls, teachers have warned.

From 2015, there will be a return to end-of-course exams and less coursework in GCSE English, geography, history, maths and the sciences. Michael Gove, the education secretary, says the move will make the qualifications more rigorous.

But the reforms could reverse the lead girls have had over boys in most subjects for more than two decades, teachers said. Exams data shows girls have outperformed boys in GCSEs for 24 years.'

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'The feminists have ratcheted up the laws against men to such an outrageous level that paternity fraud is not just ignored, but routinely rubber stamped by the courts. Whether one agrees with the concept of child support or not, virtually everyone can agree that jailing men for child support over children who are not theirs is morally wrong. Men are routinely sent to jail for falling behind on paying child support, even though debtors' prisons in the U.S. were mostly eliminated in the mid-nineteenth century.

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'CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Easing the penalties on people who fail to pay child support would seem to be an odd strategy to use to alleviate child poverty.

But that's what was discussed at a West Virginia Senate committee on child poverty on Wednesday. And that discussion is likely to lead to legislation that will have bipartisan support.

The committee heard from Rev. Matthew Watts, a community leader from Charleston's West Side, who described a situation where a parent fails to pay child support, is sent to jail, loses any source of income he or she may have had and then the child has no hope of getting support.
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Laird has proposed a bill providing amnesty to anyone whose license has been suspended for failing to pay a fine that is at least 10 years old. That bill will be considered by the Senate Transportation Committee on Friday.'

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'While most of the thousands of demonstrators lined up outside the U.S. Supreme Court today were there to show their opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act, a handful of people were getting snippy about a completely different issue.

Circumcision.

This week marks the 20th annual Demonstration Against Infant Circumcision, a yearly protest in which hundreds of "intactivists" descent upon Washington to clamor for an end to the practice of doctors removing newborn infant boys' foreskin, whether for religious purposes or because it's a standard practice in American medicine.

"Forcing children to participate in blood rituals is wrong," says Jonathan Conte, a San Francisco resident holding a large sign reading "Equal Justice" above a large, graphic photo of a newborn being circumcised. "Religion of one's parents is not a reason to abuse."

In early January, SAVE sent a letter to the National District Attorneys Association, asking the NDAA to make its National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women gender-neutral or gender-inclusive.

We thought the NDAA would respond quickly to our request, since the NDAA's own ethical standards say, "A criminal investigation should not begin or be continued if it is motivated in whole or part by the victim or perpetrator's race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or political affiliation unless these factors are an element of a crime or relevant to the perpetrator's motive."

Nearly 3 months later, the NDAA has not changed the biased name of its Center, nor has it given a formal response.

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'Elgin police, investigating a 2-week-old murder, say they wasted valuable time and resources looking into a report of a nearby sexual assault that turned out to be false.

A Larkin High School senior who lives on the same block as murder victim Lisa Koziol-Ellis made the false report to cover up the fact she lost a dog she was watching, police said.

Katrina R. Sedlock, 18, of the 0-100 block of Garden Crescent Court, was charged with felony disorderly conduct and making a false crime report. She appeared Friday in the Elgin branch of Kane County bond court, police Cmdr. Glenn Theriault said.'

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'An Ansonia resident filed a false report of sexual assault, Shelton police said.

Kathryn M. Jordan, 54, of Elaine Drive, is charged with second-degree falsely reporting an incident.

She made the report in July 2012, police said, and was arrested March 20 at 11:30 a.m. at Police Headquarters.

Jordan was released on a written promise to appear in Derby Superior Court on April 3.'

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'An alleged sexual assault reported near Auburn University campus last week did not occur, authorities announced Monday.

“We thoroughly investigated it and it didn’t happen,” said Auburn Police Capt. Tom Stofer, who declined to release the identity of the woman that filed the false report.

Stofer also said there will be no charges filed against the 20-year-old woman who was not an Auburn University student and at no time was she or any residents in the area of the alleged incident in any danger.'

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'Yes, we can all rest easy knowing there isn’t a sexual predator on the loose in Auburn.

That should make anyone with children, college-aged or not, breathe a sigh of relief.

But when Auburn police determined that an alleged sexual assault reported near Auburn University’s campus did not, in fact, happen last week, we shouldn’t just close the book.

We need to seize the opportunity to continue to educate and raise awareness about sexual assault.'

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'A man facing a rape trial committed suicide in Indore days after the complainant reportedly admitted that he had only tried to hold her hand after a fight over money.

Roopkishore, 53, was found dead in his home in Palasia locality on Sunday, four days after the woman, 33, admitted during trial that she had falsely charged him with rape to avoid repaying the money her husband owed him.

The woman, who is Roopkishore's tenant, had accused him of raping her on December 26. The police booked him under Section 376 of the IPC and arrested him.'