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Pew survey of U.S. Jews: soaring intermarriage, assimilation rates NEW YORK (JTA) — There are a lot more Jews in America than you may have thought — an estimated 6.8 million, according to a new study. But a  growing proportion of them are unlikely to raise their children Jewish or connect with Jewish institutions. The proportion of Jews who say they have no religion and are Jewish only on the basis of ancestry, ethnicity or culture is growing rapidly, and two-thirds of them are not raising their children Jewish at all. Overall, the intermarriage rate is at 58 percent, up from 43 percent in 1990 and 17 percent in 1970. Among non-Orthodox Jews, the intermarriage rate is 71 percent. Read more: http://www.jta.org/2013/10/01/news-opinion/united-states/pew-survey-u-s-jewish-intermarriage-rate-rises-to-58-percent#ixzz2hdjj6d5E

HRW: Syrian Rebels Killed 190 Civilians in Coordinated Attack

Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize

On August 21, the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad was accused of using chemical weapons on its own population, prompting Western countries – led by the United States – to declare their intention to bomb Syria to somehow save it from itself. The reasons for the declared intention of launching air strikes on Syria was to punish the Syrian government, to uphold international law, and to act on the ‘humanitarian’ values which the West presumably holds so dear. George Orwell discussed this in his 1946 essay,  Politics and the English Language , written two years prior to the publication of  1984 . In his essay, Orwell wrote that, “the English language is in a bad way” and that language is ultimately “an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.” The decline of language, noted Orwell, “must ultimately have political and economic causes… It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foo...

Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai Says Nato Caused 'Great Suffering' President Hamid Karzai has criticised Nato for failing to bring stability to Afghanistan in over a decade there. By Yalda Hakim  BBC Newsnight October 07, 2013 " Information Clearing House  - " BBC " - "On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure," he said.

Six-year-old loses eye from bullets Israel promised to phase out Six-year-old Mousab Sarahnin lost an eye after Israeli soldiers fired  rubber-coated steel bullets  just after he stepped off a bus at the Fawwar refugee camp, near the occupied West Bank city of  Hebron , on 27 September. Sitting with his father, Mousab Sarahnin was shot in the eye by an Israeli soldier. (Dylan Collins)

Glenn Greenwald Full Interview on Snowden, NSA, GCHQ and Spying Video BBC Newsnight Posted October 03, 2013 Glenn Greenwald Full Interview on Snowden, NSA, GCHQ and Spying