#Palestinian women’s basketball

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The 22-year-old MVP of the Palestinian women’s basketball team Mirna Sayeh has made history by being the first female Palestinian player to join the Israeli Premier League.

The Bethlehem native reported, “the bar is much higher in Israel, I really wanted to play here.”

It is incredible to see sports bridging the political divide in Israel.

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[female-buckets]

Tash's ethical stance on humanity is probably what got her off the all star roster. Because honestly shes been vocal about certain topics that the league just don't wanna see. Her being left off the list was not based on her basketball skills or lack of popularity. And I think that's a major L on the league

The more I think about it, the more I think there's truth to this.

Because look!

But Cathy Engelbert says she's not an all star 🤔

The Mercury/Suns LOVE Tash. They promote the hell out of her. They helped get her in the NBA celebrity game right after signing her. And here's what the newly signed Mercury point guard wore to NBA all star.

A keffiyeh, a symbol of the secular Palestinian national movement. The SECULAR movement. How can anyone be mad at that? This is a perfectly acceptable thing to wear. It shouldn't be controversial at all. But in America, no one wants to hear the context or details. They want to make everything into a negative generalization.

Tash lived and worked in Jordan for a few years. She's done a lot for women's basketball in the middle east. Some of her teammates in Jordan are Palestinian. She has a personal connection to the region.

And the Mercury love that and love her just like they love when DT wears Che shirts.

But I don't think the WNBA front office loves all that. And that has hurt Tash's career.

[cocosse]

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” Mark Twain, 1835-1910

Palestinian women playing basketball in Araa village, 1965

[workersolidarity]

[video: Israeli tanks fire at innocent civilians at Salah al-Din Street near the city of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 🚨 💥ISRAELI AUTHORITIES BOMB PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS IN AREAS THEY ORDERED THEM TO EVACUATE TO REUTERS ADMITS💥

Israeli Occupation Authorities ordered Palestinian civilians to evacuate the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis to the south and west towards the coast and Rafah before bombing them in those areas, according to a Reuters report.

The report says that the Israeli Occupation Forces posted a map on the social media platform X showing a quarter of the city of Khan Yunis marked off in yellow, indicating Israeli Forces would be launching strikes in the area.

Three arrows pointing west and south on the map told people to head towards the direction of the Mediterranean coast and Rafah, near the border with Egypt.

In a later post, the Occupation Forces' chief Arabic-language spokesperson told people in a post on X that the main road into and out of Khan Yunis to the north "constitutes a battlefield" and was now closed.

The post said that access would be permitted on the western outskirts of Khan Yunis, while a "short tactical suspension of military activities" would allow access to Rafah until the early afternoon.

Even according to Reuters, the results of overnight bombing raids sent "desperate residents fleeing even as it dropped bombs on areas where it told them to go."

According to Reuters:

In Rafah, bombing at one site overnight had torn a crater the size of a basketball court out of the earth. A dead toddler's bare feet and black trousers poked out from under a pile of rubble. Men struggled with their bare hands to move a chunk of the concrete that had crushed the child.

Later they chanted "God is Great" and wept as they marched through the ruins carrying the body in a bundle and that of another small child body wrapped in a blanket.

"We were asleep and safe, they told us it was a safe area, Rafah and all," said Salah al-Arja, owner of one of the houses destroyed at the site.

"There were children, women and martyrs," he said. "They tell you it is a safe area, but there is no safe area in all of the Gaza Strip, it is all lies and manipulations."

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[libraryleopard]

Libraries are cool! Anyone want to hear about the books I have on hold at the library right now? Just kidding, you don't have a choice.

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron. Adult historical fiction about a Haitian-French, queer woman who becomes a pirate in the 17th-century Caribbean. As a Black Sails fan, I have high hopes for this one.

The Tower by Flora Carr. Adult historical fiction novel about the imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots, prior to her execution–supposed to be very character-driven and claustrophobic, also queer I think?

Experienced by Kate Young. Adult romantic comedy about a newly-out lesbian in her thirties whose first serious girlfriend tells her she should go out and explore the queer dating scene she missed out on in her twenties; I've heard it's both funny and heartfelt.

Here For the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang: Adult romantic comedy about two women on a Bachelor-type dating show for fall for each other instead of the male star. I don't watch dating shows, but this is a great premise for a rom com.

A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins. Black sapphic romance about a music producer and a dancer at a strip club. I like queer friends-to-lovers and the cover for this is cute (fat Black masc lesbian on the cover, also!)

How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly. I have grown to love Anita Kelly this year so I'm excited to read their F/F romance! There's basketball and a sort of fake-dating/relationship lessons scheme between the leads.

Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg. Adult lit fic about two queer roommates and artists from Philadelphia who go on a roadtrip to photograph rural Pennsylvania. Reviews promise messy yet loveable characters and an exploration of the power of art.

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. Adult science fiction novel about a British civil servant offered a job to monitor people plucked from history and brought to the modern times to see how they adjust to the present–specifically Arctic explorer Graham Gore. And falls in love with him? This is a really wild premise for a book but I've seen some very positive reviews and apparently the novel has an interesting exploration of history and colonialism, so I've decided to give it a whirl.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. Nonfiction about Palestinian history.

[alexbkrieger13]

Is this making the news in Ireland?

https://x.com/stsager/status/1756030957868437623?s=46&t=vBLDXsQ0JiysAaTNZSI39Q

Not a good look for the Irish team. Is there some sense of false equivalency going on? They think that they were occupied by England at one point so they have to protest Israel existing and side with Hamas? If the Palestinian people wanted an Ireland of their own they could have one by now. Ireland got their country and are happy. They aren’t shooting missiles at England and demand all of Great Britain should be England and that England should go out of existance. Nor do they claim to be under apartheid because there’s a border between England and Ireland. So false equivalency. Bad reason to sell yourself to Hamas and be racist towards a young group of women playing basketball.

Not really the mainstream new. A big thing to note in Ireland is that within nationalist circles there's always been a very sympathetic cause with the Palestinians just because they compare it similarly to being under British rule Ireland was (not exactly historically the same thing but you know symbolism).

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.15 (before 1940)

69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith". 1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England and Ireland in Westminster Abbey, London. 1582 – Truce of Yam-Zapolsky: Russia cedes Livonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1759 – The British Museum opens to the public. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence. 1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. 1818 – A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light. 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly. 1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy. 1867 – Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses. 1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly). 1876 – The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl. 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta. 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball. 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women. 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft). 1911 – Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded. 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent communists in Germany, are clubbed and then shot to death by members of the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising. 1919 – Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150. 1934 – The 8.0 Mw  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. 1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio. 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republicans both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.

[dan6085]

Here are 20 of the most important sports events in history, along with some details about their significance:

1. Ancient Olympic Games - The ancient Olympic Games were held in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC to 393 AD. They were the most important athletic and cultural event in Ancient Greece and served as a symbol of unity and peace among the Greek city-states.

2. First Modern Olympic Games - The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896, under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). They marked the revival of the ancient Olympic Games and laid the foundation for the modern Olympic movement.

3. Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Jesse Owens, an African-American track and field athlete, won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, shattering Adolf Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy and challenging racial discrimination in the United States.

4. Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball debut - Jackie Robinson, an African-American baseball player, made his Major League Baseball debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, breaking the color barrier in professional baseball and paving the way for other black athletes.

5. 1958 NFL Championship Game - The 1958 NFL Championship Game, also known as the "Greatest Game Ever Played," was the first American football game to be broadcast nationally and marked the beginning of the NFL's rise to national prominence.

6. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I - The first fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, held on March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, was one of the most anticipated and controversial boxing matches in history, and marked the beginning of a legendary rivalry.

7. 1972 Munich Olympics - The 1972 Munich Olympics were marred by a terrorist attack in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists, highlighting the vulnerability of global sporting events to political violence.

8. Title IX - Title IX, a federal law passed in 1972, prohibited sex discrimination in education and athletics and helped to increase opportunities for women in sports, leading to a significant increase in female participation and achievement in sports.

9. Miracle on Ice - The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's victory over the heavily favored Soviet team in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics is known as the "Miracle on Ice" and is considered one of the greatest upsets in sports history.

10. Michael Jordan's "Flu Game" - Michael Jordan's performance in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals, in which he scored 38 points despite suffering from flu-like symptoms, is known as the "Flu Game" and is considered one of the greatest individual performances in basketball history.

11. Lance Armstrong's Tour de France victories - Lance Armstrong won seven consecutive Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005, but was later stripped of his titles and banned from cycling for life after being found guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs.

12. Beijing Olympics - The 2008 Beijing Olympics marked China's emergence as a global superpower and showcased the country's economic and technological achievements, as well as its political and social challenges.

13. LeBron James' "Decision" - LeBron James' announcement that he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers to join the Miami Heat in 2010, known as "The Decision," sparked a nationwide debate about loyalty, free agency, and player empowerment in professional sports.

14. London Olympics - The 2012 London Olympics were widely praised for their organization, hospitality, and cultural diversity, and showcased the best of British and global sportsmanship, innovation, and creativity.

15. Boston Marathon bombing - The 2013 Boston Marathon was marred by a terrorist attack in which two bombs exploded near the finish line, killing three people and injuring hundreds, and highlighting the vulnerability of sports events to acts of terror.

16. Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil in the 2014 World Cup - Germany's stunning 7-1 victory over Brazil in the semifinals of the 2014 World Cup, held in Brazil, was one of the most lopsided and shocking results in World Cup history.

17. Simone Biles' dominance in gymnastics - Simone Biles, an American gymnast, has won 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, including 23 golds, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time.

18. Colin Kaepernick's protest - Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL quarterback, sparked a nationwide controversy in 2016 by kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice, and ignited a national debate about the role of sports and politics.

19. Serena Williams' dominance in tennis - Serena Williams, an American tennis player, has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time.

20. Tokyo Olympics - The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are a symbol of global resilience, solidarity, and hope, and showcase the best of human achievement, diversity, and cooperation in sports.

[mariacallous]

Foreign Policy Morning Brief: Can diplomacy save Brittney Griner?

By Christina Lu

Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, where we’re looking at Brittney Griner’s uncertain fate, Israel’s deadly raid in Nablus, and Qatar’s human rights abuses. 

Russian Court Upholds Griner’s Sentence 

American basketball star Brittney Griner is set to serve a nine-year prison sentence in a Russian penal colony after a court shot down her appeal on Tuesday, in a ruling that U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan condemned as “another sham judicial proceeding.”

While expected, Griner now faces a harrowing future in a penal colony, notoriously brutal Russian prisons that force prisoners to work and can be traced back to gulags. News reports, inmate testimonies, and government investigations describe a harsh system in which torture, physical attacks, and sexual violence are rampant. 

Griner’s fate now lies in the hands of U.S. diplomats, who have spent months struggling to negotiate her release as U.S.-Russia relations rapidly deteriorate over the war in Ukraine. In July, the Biden administration proposed a prisoner swap—releasing Viktor Bout, an arms dealer, in exchange for the freedom of Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan—although the Kremlin insisted on waiting for her court case to conclude. 

As Russian President Vladimir Putin wields Griner’s detention as political leverage, the Biden administration is facing a “really difficult set of competing priorities,” said Danielle Gilbert, a hostage diplomacy expert at Dartmouth College. 

“They want to bring home Americans who were wrongfully imprisoned,” she said. “But they also don’t want to reward this kind of bad behavior or give anything up to Vladimir Putin at a time that he’s engaged in a brutal and unjust war in Ukraine, nor do they want to incentivize future arrests of this sort.”

Griner, who turned 32 last week, has now been detained since Feb. 17, just before Russia invaded Ukraine. She had been arrested for carrying under one gram of hashish oil; Moscow convicted her of drug smuggling. In May, Washington said Griner had been “wrongfully detained.”

U.S. officials are set to continue talks for Griner’s release, although past prisoner swaps suggest that it could take years for progress to be made. Whelan himself has been held in Russia since 2018. 

“When we look at cases of Americans who have recently come home from this sort of unjust captivity abroad, it’s often two, three, four years that they are imprisoned before the negotiations are concluded,” Gilbert said.

Until then, Griner faces a deeply uncertain future. 

“She is not yet absolutely convinced that America will be able to take her home,” Alexandr Boykov, one of Griner’s lawyers, told the New York Times earlier in October. “She is very worried about what the price of that will be, and she is afraid that she will have to serve the whole sentence here in Russia.”

What We’re Following Today

Israel’s deadly raid. At least five Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces carried out a raid against a group called the Lions’ Den in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday. Israeli authorities have accused the organization of launching a spate of attacks. The leader of the Lions’ Den, Wadie al-Houh, was killed. 

Qatar’s human rights abuses. Human Rights Watch has recorded six cases in which Qatari authorities have arbitrarily detained, beaten, and sexually harrassed LGBT people from 2019 to 2022. In several cases, officials forced transgender women to participate in conversion therapy, the organization said. 

“While Qatar prepares to host the World Cup, security forces are detaining and abusing LGBT people simply for who they are, apparently confident that the security force abuses will go unreported and unchecked,” said Rasha Younes, a researcher at Human Rights Watch.

Keep an Eye On 

Myanmar’s concert attack. Eighty people have reportedly died after Myanmar’s military launched a deadly airstrike at an outdoor concert organized by a branch of the Kachin, one of the country’s major ethnic groups. The concert was commemorating the establishment of the Kachin Independence Organization, which has opposed and clashed with the junta. 

Flooding in South Sudan. Extreme flooding has displaced and upended the livelihoods of more than two million people in South Sudan this year. Eight of the country’s ten states are now experiencing flooding, officials said, while 65 percent of people suffer from food insecurity. 

[ardor-mohr]

Palestinian women at the Women’s Activity Centre in Qalandiya village playing basketball, 1950. (Credit: UNRWA Photo)

[hussainshiyam]

Speaking Out Against Israel is Celebrity Kryptonite.

It is not that difficult to understand why the vast majority of celebrities, athletes and public figures are silent on the Israeli atrocities and war crimes. They are keenly aware of the consequences to their public image and to their livelihood should they in any way support the Palestinian cause or stand in solidarity with the Palestinians.

These people can criticise the American government, accuse them of war crimes and systemic racism, and still survive the campaign to “cancel” them.

However, if anyone dares to even ask a question regarding Israeli policy or show solidarity with the Palestinians, the progenitors of cancel culture will come for them. The media attacks on them and their associates will be relentless, sustained and exhausting.

For those who are brave enough, they will be;

- Immediately accused of antisemitism whether it is true or not.

- Endorsements and sponsorships deals will either be rescinded or not renewed.

- Left out of Business deals and investment opportunities

- Deplatformed.

- Blackballed by all the industries that they’ve had plans on being a part of.

But still, it is very disappointing to see that hardly any high profile celebrity has spoken up for the Palestinians. Even the uncancellable Dave Chappelle (who happens to be a muslim) has had nothing to say about the Israel - Palestine issue.

As far as high profile celebrities go, the Hadid sisters are the ones leading the pack in showing solidarity with the Palestinian’s. After all, they are the children of a Palestinian father. Yet, they are being attacked by the official and verified social media accounts of the Israeli state accusing the sisters of calling for the genocide of Jews and accusing them of antisemitism.

The fact that these sisters are being attacked directly by the Israeli state goes to show how influential these sisters are. And how seriously the Israeli government takes the influence these sisters have on the young. That is why, regardless of how you may feel about them, the Hadid sisters need to be protected, supported, and encouraged.

It boggles the mind to think that the Israeli government expects the children of a Palestinian to keep quiet in the face of the inhumane treatment of their people and the indiscriminate bombings of residential buildings in Gaza killing women and children all in the guise of Hamas is in the building.

Here is a link to the celebrities who have shown support for the Palestinian’s. It is disappointingly limited and not at all surprising.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/celebrities-show-solidarity-with-palestine/2247224

Israel, through its obscenely wealthy and powerful supporters in the United States, have bought the silence of these celebrities through multimillion dollar endorsement deals and sponsorships. It is hard to give up that kind of money in a culture where success is seen as who has the most money. (China has figured this out too and is doing the same thing. But, that is a topic for another day).

What we are seeing right now is that there are a lot less Mohamed Ali’s than there are Michael Jordan’s or LeBron James’. Where as Mohamed Ali was willing to give up everything for a cause he believed in, Michael Jordan refused to take a side by infamously saying, “Republicans buy sneakers too.” And, who can forget how LeBron reacted to a NBA owner who criticised China’s handling of the Hong Kong democracy protests.

LeBron James being one of the most outspoken superstars of this generation said of the NBA owner “I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50054195

The message is loud and clear. Be very careful of what you say about Israel or China unless you want your money to be messed with.

As Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore showed, if you want to change behaviour hit their wallets and see how fast the behaviour changes. But I digress.

Kevin Hart, on one of his visits to the Joe Rogan podcast, spoke of the difficulty in being free and how limiting it is on what he wants to say or do when having corporate relationships. Because any misstep from him will have dire consequences on not only him but also those around him.

Though it is incredibly disappointing and disheartening to see that so many have chosen to keep quiet because speaking up may mean the loss of a substantial portion of their income, it is difficult to be mad at them.

I hope to see a day where the vast majority of influential people aren’t afraid to criticise Israeli atrocities, the ethnic displacement of Palestinians, and the war crimes it commits because of what may happen to their careers and to their earning potential.

As for now, lets just stand in solidarity with Palestine and do what little we can do to help alleviate the dire situation Palestine is in.

May Palestine be free one day.

#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #LongLivePalestine #LongLiveGaza

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jimjoplinphotography: Agata Balbina Hofman by Jim Joplin; thepalestineyoudontknow: Palestinian women playing basketball in Araa village,1965; Posted by theteenagehead

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[cocosse]

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

Mark Twain, 1835-1910

Palestinian women playing basketball in Araa village, 1965

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.15

69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith". 1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England and Ireland in Westminster Abbey, London. 1582 – Truce of Yam-Zapolsky: Russia cedes Livonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1759 – The British Museum opens to the public. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence. 1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. 1818 – A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light. 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly. 1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy. 1867 – Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses. 1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly). 1876 – The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl. 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta. 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball. 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women. 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft). 1911 – Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded. 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising. 1919 – Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150. 1934 – The 8.0 Mw  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. 1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio. 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road. 1943 – World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins. 1943 – The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington County, Virginia. 1947 – The Black Dahlia murder: The dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles. 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist government. 1962 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece. 1962 – Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy. 1966 – The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état. 1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10. 1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5. 1970 – Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria. 1970 – Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. 1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. 1975 – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal. 1976 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison. 1977 – Linjeflyg Flight 618 crashes in Kälvesta near Stockholm Bromma Airport in Stockholm, Sweden, killing 22 people. 1981 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish trade union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa. 1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. 1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system. 2001 – Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online. 2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon. 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off. This becomes known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" as all 155 people on board were rescued. 2013 – A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others. 2015 – The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the Swiss franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets. 2016 – The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle. 2018 – British multinational construction and facilities management services company Carillion went into liquidation – officially, "the largest ever trading liquidation in the UK" 2019 – Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19. 2019 – Theresa May's UK government suffers the biggest government defeat in modern times, when 432 MPs voting against the proposed European Union withdrawal agreement, giving her opponents a majority of 230. 2020 – The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare confirms the first case of COVID-19 in Japan. 2021 – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people. 2022 – The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts, cutting off communications with Tonga and causing a tsunami across the Pacific.

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The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to continue their partnership to bring you the 29th annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presenting films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. This year’s festival presents an engaging lineup of narratives, documentaries, and shorts, from restored classics to world premieres. See showtimes & get tickets: https://www.nyjff.org Dani Menkin’s documentary Aulcie is the Opening Night selection, screening in its New York premiere on Thursday, January 16. When a scout for the Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv spotted Aulcie Perry on Harlem’s Rucker Court in 1976, he recruited the athlete to join their fledgling team. Less than a year later, Perry led the team to a win in the 1977 European Championship, a victory that he repeated four years later. Aulcie delves into the riveting story of this legendary player, who put Israeli basketball on the map, converted to Judaism, became an Israeli citizen, and overcame his demons. The Closing Night film is the New York premiere of Dror Zahavi’s Crescendo. When a world-famous conductor (played by Toni Erdmann’s Peter Simonischek) accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he steps into a firestorm of conflict and mistrust as he tries to bring the two factions of young musicians together in harmony. The Centerpiece selection focuses on the career of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, the French film director, author, producer, and actress who died in 2018. The Birch Tree Meadow (2003), starring Anouk Aimée and August Diehl, is Loridan-Ivens’s autobiographical drama about an Auschwitz survivor who returns to the camp to confront her past and the young descendant of an SS guard she meets there. This screening is part of an annual initiative highlighting work by women filmmakers that merit broader American recognition. The 2020 NYJFF marks the 50th anniversary of legendary director Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. This beloved Italian drama, based on the classic novel by Giorgio Bassani, is set amidst the rise of Fascism in the 1930s. The wealthy, intellectual Finzi-Contini family’s estate serves as a gathering place for the local Jewish community that tries to remain sheltered from the country’s growing anti-Semitism. While romance unfolds behind the tall, stone walls of the garden, an increasingly hostile reality sets in. The NYJFF will present the World Premiere of the new restoration of Charles Davenport’s long-lost 1919 silent film Broken Barriers (Khavah), the first film based on the Sholem Aleichem stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. This story is uniquely told from the perspective of Khavah, Tevye the milkman’s daughter, who falls in love with the gentile boy Fedka and navigates the reverberations from her community and family. Donald Sosin will provide live piano accompaniment. (The restoration was completed by the National Center for Jewish Film.) This year’s New York Jewish Film Festival was selected by Rachel Chanoff, Director, THE OFFICE performing arts + film; Gabriel Grossman, Coordinator, New York Jewish Film Festival/The Jewish Museum; and Aviva Weintraub, Associate Curator, The Jewish Museum and Director, New York Jewish Film Festival; with Dennis Lim, Director of Programming, Film at Lincoln Center, as adviser. SUPPORT The New York Jewish Film Festival is made possible by the Martin and Doris Payson Fund for Film and Media. Generous support is also provided by Wendy Fisher and Dennis Goodman, Sara and Axel Schupf, Louise and Frank Ring, The Liman Foundation, Mimi and Barry Alperin, an anonymous gift, the Ike, Molly and Steven Elias Foundation, Amy and Howard Rubenstein, Robin and Danny Greenspun, Steven and Sheira Schacter, and through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council. Additional support is provided by the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Dutch Culture USA, the German Consulate General New York, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Fiona Drenttel, Intern; Joan Dupont, Film Critic; Nicola Galliner, Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg; Stuart Hands, Toronto Jewish Film Festival; Annette Insdorf, Columbia University; Marlene Josephs, Volunteer; Linda Lipson, Volunteer; Richard Peña, Columbia University; Sophie Rupp, Intern. Additional support is provided by The Jack and Pearl Resnick Foundation. More info: http://filmlinc.org Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=filmlincdotcom Like on Facebook: http://facebook.com/filmlinc Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/filmlinc Follow on Instagram: http://instagram.com/filmlinc