Article here. Excerpt:

'But the debate over ritual circumcision shows that the tensions extend even further.

Rabbi Goldberg does not seem especially worried. Anyone can file a complaint against anyone else in Germany, and he may never face formal charges. Rabbi Goldberg has not hired a lawyer and declined an offer from one who was willing to handle the case for free.

The more serious threat, in the eyes of Rabbi Goldberg and many Jews, Muslims and Christians in Europe, comes from what they see as an attack by secular society on religious ritual, on faith itself. A seemingly insignificant decision by a lower court in Cologne, against a doctor who circumcised a Muslim boy, has fed a rapidly spreading drive to criminalize a practice that is core to Jewish and Muslim belief.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Father-daughter dances and mother-son ballgames -- those cherished hallmarks of Americana -- have been banned in a Rhode Island school district after they were targeted by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The ACLU, the self-proclaimed guardian of the nation's liberty, says such events violate the state's gender-discrimination law. The organization challenged their existence following a complaint from a single mom who said her daughter was prevented from attending a father-daughter dance in the Cranston Public Schools district.

The story has created a furor both online as well as in Cranston, a community located south of Providence and considered one of the safest places in America.'

Announcement here. Available on Amazon.com here and from their own store here.

'The documentary film Support? System Down is an eye-opening account into divorce and custody issues in America. The shocking documentary exposes the truth of the "divorce industry" and child support system in America while touching on subjects such as Parental Alienation, Shared Parenting and Parenting Plans.'

The U.S. Department of Education (DED)'s 2011 sexual assault directive has resulted in a number of false allegations and wrongful convictions. High profile cases involve the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of North Dakota, Cornell University, the University of North Carolina, Brown University, Xavier University, Yale University, and the University of Montana.

Learn more at: http://www.accusingu.org/

SAVE believes that holding false accusers accountable will result in a reduction of false allegations. Today, we're asking you to write to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Tell him, "False Accusers Must be Held Accountable!"

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: arne.duncan-at-ed.gov

Oh behalf of every male student on campus, thank you!

Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting the wider use of circumcision its propagation and the World Health Organization is being urged to do the same, with critics arguing that any such campaign carries with it the real danger that societies in Africa, where the AIDS prevention efforts are mostly focused, will result in the large scale circumcising of infants who have no choice in the matter.

It should be noted that female circumcision has nothing to do with health. It is nothing more than the practice of female genital mutilation and is a gross insult to womanhood. It stems from male fears of women’s sexuality and usually involves cutting out the clitoris, which is enormously painful though milder versions which only involve trimming the labia may have no more effect on ability to be aroused than the male counterpart.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Feminist-imposed gender quotas hurt us at the Olympics in events which our Nation once dominated. The systematic elimination of certain men’s sports from colleges has weakened our competitiveness. We won only four medals in all of men’s wrestling, less than half the total won by Iran, and only a fraction of the medals won by Russia in this masculine sport. Wrestling is an immensely popular and valuable sport; it’s inexpensive and safer than other sports. Wrestling develops discipline in boys. Many high-achievers, such as Donald Rumsfeld and pro-life attorney Phill Kline, developed their toughness as wrestlers.

Article here. "Male-dominated country", indeed! If it's so "male-dominated", how come men and not women are forced to serve in the armed forces? Excerpt:

'SEOUL, South Korea -- Cho Won-hyuk stands in front of his bedroom mirror and spreads dollops of yellow-brown makeup over his forehead, nose, chin and cheeks until his skin is flawless. Then he goes to work with a black pencil, highlighting his eyebrows until they're thicker, bolder.
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...This socially conservative, male-dominated country, with a mandatory two-year military conscription for men, has become the male makeup capital of the world....
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Kim Jong-hoon, a 27-year-old tech industry worker in Paju, said the endless media exposure to famous men with perfect skin helped steer his progression from soap and water to an elaborate regime that includes as many as eight steps, from cleanser to eye cream and lotion to a small amount of makeup powder.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A growing number of Jews are in favor of banning child circumcision. These Jews recognize a minor's right to their own body, a right that supersedes the rights of a parent to harm the body of a child in the name of religion.
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What follows is a collection of statements from Jews who question the ethics and legality of forced under-age circumcision. Jewish Americans Support Outlawing Child Circumcision

"I am a Jewish mother against circumcision and in support of passing Bill 1777. For years I was a certified childbirth educator and now a journalist and filmmaker. I continue to educate people that childbirth is a natural event rather than one filled with unnecessary drugs and other medical intervention, and circumcision is an unnatural event. These are two clear-cut examples of interfering with nature."

- Katherine Mora, Jewish Mother , Testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary'

Action item here. Excerpt:

'The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just released a new Technical Report by its Task Force on Circumcision, claiming that the “benefits” of routine infant circumcision outweigh the risks. Hard to see how they might draw such a conclusion, because they acknowledge—over and over in the Report—that no good studies have been done on those risks! And the Report IGNORES the growing accounts in medical literature, in the mainstream press and on the internet, of botched circumcisions, sexual dysfunction, psychological impact, and—in at least 100 instances a year—death.

Some guys just lost their jobs because they're male-- in a "male-dominated society", no less. Story here. Excerpt:

'AFP - The labour ministry has ordered the closure of around 100 lingerie shops in the Saudi capital for having men on their sales staff, a newspaper said on Sunday.

Al-Eqtisadiah quoted a ministry official as saying all shops which violate a decree on the "feminisation and nationalisation of jobs" would be shut down. The measure aims to "provide a safe environment for working women," he said.

The ministry at the start of the year banned male assistants from working at lingerie shops, as a first step to be followed by women-only sales assistants at cosmetics outlets.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'An Adelaide woman has admitted killing her five-year-old son by putting methadone in his cordial.

Lisa Anne Collard, 45, pleaded guilty in the South Australian Supreme Court on Monday to the manslaughter of her son Christopher on June 7 last year at their Modbury Heights home.
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A court has previously heard Collard was trying to treat her son's cold when she put the methadone in a bottle of green cordial.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'If the deadbeat dad phenomenon is a national disgrace, paternity fraud is its oily underbelly.

Attorney Dennis Fuller has spent the past year trying to remedy the fraud that wreaks much the same emotional and financial havoc as the more common failure to pay legitimate support to a son or daughter.

His 12-month mission narrows greatly on Sept. 1, when a legal window closes for men who have long known the child they support is not theirs.

“There’s a remedy for a short period of time,” Fuller said this past week. “If you take the statistics the blood banks give us, and the researchers give us, there should be 128,000 guys in Texas that are paying child support for children who are not theirs.”'

Bill here. Excerpt:

'(8) Engaging women in the scientific enterprise is beneficial to the well-being of women and girls, as well as to global stability and prosperity. Improving access to education and science opportunities for women and girls advances their economic viability, along with that of their families and broader communities. Moreover, the scientific field thrives on exchanges of a broad range of ideas. Including female voices, and those of all minorities, in scientific dialogue leads to more significant discoveries and creative solutions to local and global challenges.'

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'For much of history, the mark of an enviable woman has been her ability to secure a superior match, through her beauty, cleverness or artful deception. After the civil rights era, that expectation mellowed into something called "homogamy," meaning women marrying men of equal money and education. But that happy place of equilibrium seems to be fading as well. Instead, women have started doing something demographers thought they would never see: They are marrying down, not just in the United States, but all over the world, a phenomenon closely tracked by Spanish demographer Albert Esteve.

Women are largely doing this out of necessity. In every continent except Africa, women are more likely to have a college degree than the men around them. This means that in their late 20s and 30s, when most people get married, women's earning prospects are brighter. So they have no choice but to marry someone who in a Jane Austen novel would have been declared an unsuitable match.

Article here. Excerpt:

'HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SANGAMON COUNTY is planning a first next month — for women only.

Executive director Sarah Mackey said women-only build days have proved popular with Habitat for Humanity chapters elsewhere in the country. She said the first such workday here will involve exterior repairs to a home. The date has not yet been scheduled.
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Mackey said women volunteers are sometimes uncomfortable, at least at first, when working on traditional projects combining men and women.

“It can be intimidating for women who are not familiar with construction tools or terms or processes,” said Mackey. “The women-build provides a safe environment where women can come together, and learn together, and try new things.”'