As previously reported, last October in Gaylor v. Mnuchin a Wisconsin federal district court held that the parsonage allowance provision in Sec. 107(2) of the Internal Revenue Code violates the Establishment Clause. The case has been appealed to the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Yesterday...
President Proclaims May As Jewish American Heritage Month
Yesterday President Donald Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation (full text) declaring May 2018 as Jewish American Heritage Month. The Proclamation reads in part:The American Jewish community is a shining example of how enshrining freedom of religion and protecting the rights of minorities can...
Former Vatican Official To Stand Trial In Australia On Some Sex Offense Charges Against Him
In Australia yesterday, a Melbourne Magistrate's Court ruled that Cardinal George Pell must stand trial on some of the sex offense charges lodged against him. Crux reports:Following a four-week committal hearing last month, an Australian magistrate on Tuesday dismissed some of the most serious...
StarSpace: Embed All The Things!
We present StarSpace, a general-purpose neural embedding model that can solve a wide variety of problems: labeling tasks such as text classification, ranking tasks such as information retrieval/web search, collaborative filtering-based or content-based recommendation, embedding of multi-relational...
With Fizdale hire, Knicks take another step in post-Phil plans
The Knicks hired David Fizdale and now have a clear path forward after years of dysfunction. It's another big step in a long rebuilding process for New York. Source: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23395913/with-david-fizdale-hire-new-york-knicks-take-another-step-post-phil-jackson-plans-nba
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