Hanukkah celebrations glow in a dark pandemic world

[ad_1] (CNN) – Celebrating Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is a bright spot for Jews in an otherwise dark year. More than 1.5 million people have died from Covid-19 and countless events have been canceled. Rising coronavirus numbers have forced many Jews to cancel their traditional celebrations in favor of …

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2 activists arrested on Human Rights Day

[ad_1] While celebrating HUMAN Rights Day around the world on Thursday, December 10, 2020, the police arrested a union organizer and an editor of the alternative press Manila Today. Denisse Velasco, an organizer for Defend Jobs Philippines, was arrested in a raid on his home in Lagro, Quezon City around …

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