The Nahmias Cipher Report

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:09 PM EDT, 19 March 2012 UNITED STATES – When people think of Jews, the general consensus is that the community is monolithic and closed, and that all Jews unilaterally support the State of Israel and its policies. As one of our readers reminded us, Jon Stewart, who is Jewish, [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:31 PM EDT, 18 March 2012 MOROCCO – On Saturday, 17 March 2011, thousands of people around the world awoke to the horror of the suicide of a young girl who had been forced to marry her rapist. Her rapist was given the option of marrying the girl under Article [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 22:24 PM EDT, 16 March 2012 AMBOHIMIRARY, Madagascar — When people think of dancing with the dead, they usually picture the New Orleans Carnival pre-Hurricane Katrina. Carnival in that city was an admixture of ghosts, ghouls, scantily clad women and men dancing through aged alleys full of shops selling haints, [...]

The story of how my life has been impacted directly by AIDS, and why it is important that we remember all of the children who are and have been orphaned by this terrible scourge.

Reblogged from National Post | News: By Yoko Kubota OFUNATO, Japan – With a minute of silence, tolling bells and prayers, Japan will on Sunday mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation’s leaders. A [...]

Thousands of Israelis, many of whom originally from Ethiopia, take part in a demonstration against the discrimination of Ethiopian-Jews in Israel. the protesters march from the Israeli Parliament to the city center in Jerusalem, on January 18, 2012. Keren Manor

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:58 PM EDT, 23 February 2012 MANAMA, Bahrain – Only history will reveal the true extent of change wrought by the 2011 Arab Spring, but it is obvious that the situation in the Middle East is fundamentally different from what it was a year ago. Many changes have occurred, though [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 16:24 PM EDT, 16 February 2012 LOBSANG GYATSO, Tibet – A 19-year-old monk from the Kirti monastery set himself ablaze on the main street, according to the London-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT). Security forces beat Gyatso while extinguishing the flames, then took him away, the group said in an [...]

Reblogged from The Case Against Intactivism: I have two blog posts planned for the night.  I think I’ll go ahead and start on one of the most ridiculous claims put forth by intactivists.  One that’s roundly mocked by pretty much anyone with two braincells to rub together. There’s an oft-posted blog about  a baby girl [...]