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EXT. SMALL TOWN BUS STOP – DAY

(A beautiful woman with slightly wavy brown hair steps off a bus. She’s RACHEL, a corporate lawyer from The Big City.)

WOMAN ON BENCH (OLD): Shabbat Shalom!

RACHEL: And also with you!

WOMAN ON BENCH (OLD): Oh, dearie, you don’t look like you’re from around here.

RACHEL: I’m not, but my father is—I mean, was. He died this year.

(Public domain Klezmer music swells.)

RACHEL: I never knew him, but he used to own the town bakery. Apparently, his last wish was for me to reopen David’s Donuts and Matzah in time for the County Hanukkah Fair. I don’t think I can, though—I’m not really into all this holiday stuff.

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COFFS Harbour’s tourism has again been recognised at the 2023 NSW Tourism Awards, with gold going to the Giingan Gumbaynggirr Cultural Experience in the ‘Excellence In Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Tourism Experience’ category for the second time. Now in its 33rd year, the NSW Tourism Awards celebrate business excellence, acknowledge business innovation and reward...

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One that should make anyone say to themselves, “there but for the grace of God…” Another that should make anyone who lives in the real world see red. Story #1: A woman whose fetus has a fatal condition is petitioning a Texas court to let her override the state’s total abortion ban and terminate the pregnancy—the first such case since before Roe v. Wade. Lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights filed suit on behalf of Kate Cox, a 31-year-old from Dallas-Fort Worth who learned last month that her fetus has Trisomy 18, a chromosomal anomaly that causes developmental delays so severe that most infants do not survive more than two weeks. Cox’s attorneys are seeking a temporary restraining order against Texas’ abortion bans to allow her to end the pregnancy without leaving the state. Attorney Nick Kabat from the Center for Reproductive Rights said this is the first time a pregnant woman in a medical emergency has filed a lawsuit seeking access to abortion since Roe was decided more than 50 years ago. “It’s a statement of where we are that what this case is about is a medical emergency,” he said.

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They’re now holding the kind of Fox News hissy fits we’ve come to expect from the Freedom Caucus types in the House. It’d a good thing everyone is dressed in a suit or someone might think they are playing undignified childish games:  A classified briefing for senators on the White House‘s request for aid for Israel and Ukraine became “heated” Tuesday, with Republican members storming out of the meeting. The briefing, led by the secretaries of defense and state, as well as the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was held behind closed doors to allow all 100 senators to ask questions about the administration’s funding request. But it fell apart, senators from both parties said, after Republicans began asking about the border. GOP members in both chambers have demanded serious changes to immigration policy to address rising migrant crossings in exchange for passing new aid for Ukraine. They didn’t like what they heard. “People got up and walked out, because this is a waste of time,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told reporters. Sen.

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