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United States Chargé d’Affaires in Iraq Joey Hood and Consul General Steve Fagin visited a traditional tomb of the novi Nochum and his sister located inside an ancient shul in Alqosh, 30 miles north of Mosul.
The city was abandoned by its Jewish population after 1948. Until then, the kever was a major pilgrimage site, particularly on Shavuos.
Hood announced an additional $500,000 in funding to preserve the historic tomb, which was in danger of collapse until the completion of initial stabilization work in January last year by the Alliance for the Restoration of Cultural Heritage.
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After seven years holed up in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is showing symptoms of “psychological torture” as he serves a British prison sentence and battles extradition to the United States, according to a United Nations official.
Extraditing Assange to the U.S., following the announcement last week of 17 new charges under the Espionage Act, would represent a grave threat to his human rights, including a scenario in which the anti-secrecy activist could receive “a life sentence without parole, or possibly even the death penalty, if further charges were to be added in the future,” said Nils Melzer the U.N. special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

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A stabbing attack took place in Israel this morning, where two men walking neat Shaar Shchem were attacked by an Arab terrorist.
One of the victims was 17-year-old Yisroel Meir Nachumberg, who was near the Churva shul when the attack took place and was only lightly injured.
 

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Rav Saadyah ben Yosef Gaon (882-942). Born in Fayum (the former name of Cairo), Egypt, he led an all-out war against the Karaites when he was just 23, criticizing their theories with articulately advanced arguments. In 915, he moved from Egypt to Teveria to further his studies. However, the yeshiva of Sura in Babylonia invited him there. Six years later, in 928, he was appointed Gaon of the yeshiva. Two years later, a rift between him and the Reish Galusa – Dovid ben Zakai – over a beis din decision prompted Rav Saadyah’s move to Baghdad. He returned 7 years thereafter, having mended the relationship. His most famous written work is Ha’Emunos veHaDeyos, the first Jewish philosophy book, originally written in Arabic and translated into Hebrew by Rav Yehuda ibn Tibbon.

Uber lost a billion dollars in its first quarterly report as a public company, a sign that the ride-hailing giant still has a steep climb to attaining profitability.
The company’s loss of $1.01 billion in the first three months of the year contrasted with a one-time profit of $3.75 billion in the same quarter a year ago after the sale of overseas investments. The company lost about $478 million on operations in the first quarter a year ago.
Still, Uber reported that both bookings and the number of people using its platform climbed by more than 30%, positive signs of growth.

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Some of the biggest names in tech – Google, Apple, Microsoft and WhatsApp, among them – have joined human rights groups and security researchers in condemning a British intelligence proposal that would allow law enforcement to spy on encrypted messages.