Montgomery Hills Car Wash has permanently closed after 51 years of operation The SHA hosted an open house last summer to discuss the project which is currently in the design phase with right-of-way acquisitions in progress Funding for the project’s planning and engineering was paused last fall but reinstated in the final Fiscal Year 2025-2030 Consolidated Transportation Program (PDF) released in January of this year The project’s current scope includes: More information on the project is available online at the SHA’s Project Portal website at the corner of El Wad and Sha’ar Barzel streets in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City five police set up a human barrier to prevent a gang of young religious Jews from marching deeper into the quarter Sha’ar Barzel leads to the Kotel HaKatan – the Little Kotel – the continuation of the larger part of the Western Wall which almost exactly faces where the Holy of Holies of the ancient Jewish Temple is believed to have been For the past five years, on the evening of Tishah b’Av I’ve gone to visit the Little Kotel after hearing the book of Eicha the portion of the Western Wall south of the Mugrabi Gate designated as an egalitarian prayer space Tishah b’Av is the Jewish holy day that recalls the destruction of the first and second Temples and has become a religious day of mourning I’ve gone to the Little Kotel because it’s a small space free of the large groups of ultra-Orthodox reading Eicha and singing kinot Unlike the Kotel itself on Tishah b’Av – which feels almost festive with people taking selfies and looking for family and friends – the Kotel HaKatan has been a place of quiet and reverence A handful of men and women quietly said their prayers at that portion of the Wall As I walked into the Muslim Quarter on El Wad Street from the main Kotel Plaza a group of Israeli Police passed me at a run Something must have needed their attention deeper into the Quarter then Sha’ar Barzel Street one of several gates into the Temple Mount inside the Muslim Quarter a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews were crowded around the locked gate singing dirges and crouching and straining to look through a crack in the door to gain a glimpse of the location of the ancient Jewish Temples It was a unique mix of young people: Haredi A young man laid fully prostrate on the ground after a left turn through an arched doorway the Little Kotel can be found in a small courtyard after a brief walk between the stone walls it had become another location of religious fervor I left and returned down Sha’ar Barzel Street to the intersection with El Wad a gang of Jewish ‘toughs’ were marching down the street singing aggressively about the rebuilding of Jerusalem as second group of police hastily set up a human wall What I saw was Jewish youths purposefully antagonizing Arab youths I saw one Arab youth throw a plastic cup at one of the Jewish teens The two Jewish teens pulled chains off of their bikes to go after the Arab teens An off-duty visiting Tel Aviv police officer flashed something – I’m assuming a police ID – at the Jewish boys and they backed off almost immediately distracted by the march of other Jewish youths coming up the street who was disgusted that we Jews couldn’t move through the Muslim Quarter with respect and in peace on Tishah b’Av who were smiling as they observed the hostilities One argued that the Jewish teens were provoked to protect other Jews claiming that Arab kids smashed glass bottles on the stone street to harass Jews who were visiting for Tishah b’Av “We should just kick them all out,” the other said Can it be a coincidence that this change in tone – the increase in fervor and harassment in the Muslim Quarter on Tishah b’Av – has come days after Israel’s Knesset enacted the nation-state law Can it be a coincidence that Israeli police detained a Conservative rabbi for performing a marriage after a complaint was filed by the Chief Rabbinate only days after the nation-state law passed Can it be a coincidence that the Knesset passage of a new bill on surrogacy that discriminates against the LGBTQ community the same week as the nation-state law Last week was a bad week for Israel and the Jews a week in which the worst instincts of our brethren were enabled and acted upon But that shouldn’t stop Americans and Israelis from working for change in Israel to speak out and to participate in just causes “The Temple” is © 2012 Alden Solovy and tobendlight.com Join Noam and Mijal as they explore the significance of Tisha B’Av including the destruction of the two Temples and other calamities that befell the Jewish people on this day Through personal reflections and discussions they address how internal divisions within the Jewish community played a role in these tragedies and share their thoughts on the current state of Jewish unity post Oct Tune in for a heartfelt conversation about mourning and the importance of fostering unity within the Jewish community welcome to Wondering Jews with Mijal and Noam Noam: And I’m Noam and this podcast is our way of trying to figure out the Jewish world but we’re gonna try to figure out some big items together so please we encourage you to email us at wonderingjews@unpacked.media or call us at 833-WON-JEWS just to get us started before we go into a pretty intense episode an intense episode that deserves to be intense because it’s about the ninth of Av which is the national day of mourning for the Jewish people I want to know what did your family eat to break your fast And I want to know if it was at all similar to what we did because you’re thinking so much about the end of the fast My mother-in-law likes to make fun of me because she’s like my secret is I just swallow caffeine pills and I don’t have water but that’s just me being craving my coffee So I feel like I didn’t want a massively heavy thing had like coconut water and toast and salad and some cookies and things like that Noam: I almost fell asleep listening to that People don’t talk about this babka enough A babka is like this very European Jewish pastry There’s actually a great guy in TikTok who was talking about You’ve been holding out this babka thing for so long and not telling anyone about it you said it’s like your least favorite day these are the only two fast days that are like kind of but they have very different sources and very different meanings Yom Kippur has biblical roots and Yom Kippur is a fast day which we’re commanded upon in the Bible and it’s all about forgiveness and repair It’s basically a day in which we get to atone for anything that we might have done wrong and we get we are told that if we do Yom Kippur the right way there’s almost like you know like an extra ability for us to be forgiven so that’s Yom Kippur Tisha B’Av totally different it’s a post biblical holiday It’s not actually a holiday that’s it’s a day in which we mourn national catastrophes that happened to the Jewish people The rabbis in the Mishnah mentioned five things that they claim happened on Tisha B’Av And basically it’s supposed to be almost like a day in which we remember all of the bad things that befell us in which we have different rituals around it which is one of the tractates and it goes through five different things that I like the word that you use that the rabbis claim took place on this day which is interesting verb choice on your part But it was that it was the two temples were destroyed The first temple in like the sixth century BCE It was decided even biblically that they were not going to be allowed into the land of Israel Beitar was destroyed right in 50 years after the second temple was destroyed and then it was plowed over major stronghold of like the rebels under Bar Kochva trying to fight against the Romans to achieve Jewish sovereignty And then the plowing of the city of Jerusalem was like a symbol of national humiliation They also plow the city as a way of basically saying like We’re going to erase every single memory you have from this day They are national calamities that I would say describe the DNA of exile of what it is about the Jewish story that we don’t have a land and we’ve experienced so much suffering He had an essay wrote in 1928 in which he discussed something called the lachrymose conception of Jewish history to me that word is easy because in Spanish It’s basically looking at Jewish history and looking at all the low points And I think that Tisha B’Av is almost the day in which we think about the lacrimal conception of Jewish history and we mourn Mijal:  I’ve always really identified with Tisha B’Av mostly because it felt to me like a day of intense solidarity with the Jewish people which is literally we sit down on the floor Noam: We sit down on the floor because it’s a sign of mourning the Book of Lamentations about the destruction of the first temple like about different things that happened in history it’s almost like showing love to all the Jews in history that were felt so hated by the world And there’s something there that feels really sacred to me sometimes when I look at pictures from the Shoah like Jews who being humiliated or suffering or just in so much pain one of my reactions is I want to reach to the photograph and just like even though you’re experiencing so much hatred and suffering in a world that is so indifferent to your life I am here as a Jew who loves you endlessly there’s a part of Tisha B’Av that like feels really like it’s a way for me to express my deep deep love and connection to Jews across history who suffering so much Noam: So you’re pastoral even to people who died years ago you feel like a love for the Jewish people who came before you So I’ll tell you why I’m struggling with it you said that we’re mourning basically the lack of sovereignty the ending of Jewish sovereignty in different ways and what others did to make it the case that the Jewish state doesn’t exist and Jewish people don’t have their own autonomy and sovereignty and the like I do the scholar in residence residence at this sleepaway camp it was the summer of what we thought was the most intense difficult fighting between the Jewish people And there was a group of what’s called the Mishlachat The people that go from Israel to the United States of America and they go into the camp I’m having this conversation with the Israelis who came from Israel to go to the United States of America about the judicial reforms It was a debate that was causing massive division Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people protesting Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people counter protesting Israel is at its weakest that it’s ever been I’m not as passionate one way the other about the judicial reforms But do you see what’s happening in Israel Are you able to see that the enemies of Israel are utilizing this moment to say you are at your weakest Israel can never get hurt by someone like Hezbollah I was amazed because I am obsessed with Jewish and Israeli history I was amazed that we the Jewish people couldn’t access our history and allow it to help us think about what the future will entail Now I had no idea the 7th of October would happen after that I mean I didn’t know that no one knew that but I was really scared which is another term for basically the arrogance the thinking that the Jewish people are just going to thrive There’s so much division amongst the Jewish people That is what’s bothering me when I learned the story of Tisha B’Av and the story of Tisha B’Av is all about the story of the hatred amongst the Jewish people during the Second Temple that led the divisions that led to the Romans having the ability to do what they did And it’s not even like a theological statement And how do we possibly not learn from that history and see that it’s the division amongst the Jewish people that leads to this moment And that’s why Tisha B’Av this year for me is like we’re talking about the external folks you’re saying two things here and I want to respond to them separately The first thing that you’re saying is you’re reminding us that Tiosha B’Av is not only focusing on external enemies but that actually the way the rabbis constructed the day and its liturgy it’s supposed to be a lot of thinking about what we did especially the destruction of the second temple The rabbis say that it was internal strife like really war between different factions of the Jewish people that led to the Romans being able to come in and destroy the temple and take the people into exile So that’s like one thing you’re noting And I think you’re bringing up questions there about what does it mean to have a day in which mourn our own the way that I said it love our own talk about our enemies The second thing you’re bringing up is we had tremendous division right before October 7th But the only thing I want to take issue with with what you said is that I think the experience that you had with those people in camp I’m not sure it’s a representative experience I picked up a book that had 75 essays about the future of Israel And this was a book that was published right before October 7th So it was really just reflecting on those fights within Israel And essay after essay after essay after essay was just focusing on the machloket we have to get it together because we know that this is weakening us and we know that terrible catastrophe can happen if we don’t have some measure of unity I do think there were people who were noticing this I don’t think anybody could imagine the terrible terrible catastrophe of October 7th and the way it evolved But I do think that that was the beginning of a conversation that was already happening in Israel what are we really mourning and commemorating or it feels like a show of an artificial game when we know what the issue is and we have either a refusal to deal with the issue I don’t want to talk about the calamities that brought the other people brought upon ourselves I want to talk about what we’re doing internally which is the story in the Talmud that goes through the internal strife You know the story right and the wrong person got the invitation and he shows up to the party and the host of the party And he’s like I got the invitation I don’t know what to tell you and the host of the party’s like well get out of here And then there are a bunch of rabbis who are at this party and they don’t do anything about it So he gets super duper offended by the whole thing And he goes to the Roman authorities and basically he’s like the Jewish people have a real issue with you And the Roman authorities then lead to the destruction of the second temple And that’s how the rabbis choose to tell the story of what led to the destruction of the temple I love that they look internally and say this is what led to the destruction of the temple and I think Tisha B’Av should be a time that we spend time being like And let’s figure out how to be a better people now That’s my lament about this day of lamentation I don’t understand why you think we have to choose one over the other Tisha B’Av is supposed to contain everything but part of the reason it contains everything is so we can learn from it when you were speaking about the destruction of the second temple part of what I do every year is I learn about the history of how the Romans conquered the Jews and eventually exiled them and destroyed the temple And part of what you learn there is not only this moving rabbinic story eventually became a historian for the Romans But you read Josephus describing the Roman generals basically telling each other But that’s actually really important because we need that view of history to understand what came before us and we also need to understand the relationship between our own internal state and the capacity of our enemies to destroy us in order to move forward So I’m not sure why you think these are in tension with each other Noam: It’s not that I think they’re in tension with each other I’m saying this doesn’t seem that com- Mijal: You don’t think it’s complicated to figure out how to have a well-functioning Jewish society in which we have a certain amount of cohesiveness and unity so that we can take on the crazy amount of threats that are facing us Mijal: Because even take something like the judicial reforms And I could still understand why people would disagree with me And I could still have questions about the best ways to carry something out I don’t feel so confident that I know how to solve everything Noam: I’m not at all suggesting I feel confident that I know how to solve everything in the slightest What I’m saying is that the result cannot be internal hatred for the other’s opinion and thinking that you have the whole truth and you need to beat the other into submission but that’s what I’m saying is not that complicated to figure out what happens when the Jewish people go and start acting like they could just start behaving like any other nation There are 15 million Jewish people in the world There’s seven million Jews in that Jewish state There are nine million people in that Jewish state called Israel Like you don’t have the luxury with people in the North people in the East who want to and the West is the Mediterranean Sea why don’t we work on how to not hate each other because we disagree on an issue Let’s include that in our prayer experience I think that a big issue for me that I think a lot about is leadership And even when you think about like the sin of the spies that’s one of the sins and consequences that we think about in Tisha B’Av of the leadership convincing the people to reject the promised land So I guess I’m saying I have less impatience with the people I have more impatience with the leadership personally this conversation is reminding me of the following in rabbinic tradition in which different prophets are categorized differently So prophets are supposed to really look at the world and think about the gap between the way the world is and the way the world could be and prophets mostly worked with the people of Israel One type of prophets are those that are described as toveah kvod ha’ben So some prophets are the ones who look at the Jewish people and they are very impatient and angry on behalf of God in this case because of how bad the Jewish people behave So it’s almost like looking at Jewish history and saying Why aren’t we behaving the way that God wants us to behave Then there’s a different kind of prophet which looks at the Jewish people and looks at what’s happening to them And then you have the very unusual prophet who does both And I’m hearing in your words an impulse of looking at the Jewish people saying I struggle with that because I am much more inclined emotionally to be like And I think Tisha B’Av asked us to do both I don’t know if this resonates at all I’m at a point that I feel terribly for our people I’m going to call it internal frustration with what I’m seeing amongst the people the purpose of learning history is in order to learn from the history in order to ensure that what we did in the past that was bad And my sadness over the past year is now being expressed in terms of frustration that’s maybe my frustration’s coming out this year in a different way can you maybe tell us from the Tisha B’Avs you’ve experienced what are moments that you learned from that you think we could take with us this year about what it means to do Tisha B’Av in a way that you know that allows us to do this hard introspection this year but maybe one idea for us to be doing this year is to be working on things that we strongly disagree with each other on and hear each other out and work on the opposite of Sinat Chinam But really great rabbis have described it as hatred that comes out of jealousy And replace it with Ahavat Chinam which is what Rabbi Kook spoke about who was one of the great chief rabbis of Israel he died in 1935 but he would speak about baseless love Tisha B’Av should be a day in which we create experiences that could garner baseless love and create experiences that can help people who have strong disagreements with each other work on those strong disagreements with each other That to me would be a day that I’d be like this is a great new utilization of Tisha B’Av I have felt the push and pull to both extend our hands there’s going to be boundaries and people that we are we’re not able to work with in this way of ours even as I agree with you about the need to collaborate and work and all of that but I also think that there’s some elements that are so destructive or so dangerous that to me end up being that something to think about or you think we are so far away from even doing this work that we shouldn’t even think about those questions yet There are definitely the fringes that don’t need to be part of the conversation some of the same principles with the same goals in mind—now I didn’t say any political position there I didn’t talk about that at all in there But I want to know that people can talk these things through without hating each other I hear myself right now and I hear that I’m coming off in a sanctimonious way as though like I’m not saying I’m good at this but I’m saying this is the work that needs to be done And I’m saying that we need to spend a hell of a lot more time Because my blood starts rushing to my heart Like my blood pressure goes up when people say things that are antagonistic towards the way I view whatever the topic is and I’m like come on slow down bro like slow your roll and it we’re so quick to that just listening to myself wondering throughout in some ways I feel like I’ve been unfair and unkind to the Jewish people when and given God too much of a pass And sometimes there’s a danger to the theological concept of blaming ourselves for traumas that unfold Mijal: Tisha B’Av has always felt to me like a moment of loving my people and being really… like all of my theological questions the pain point of them is Tisha B’Av because my biggest… like my biggest struggles as a person of faith have to do with I’ll say it like almost simplistically the tension that I feel between my love for the Jewish people and between what I see sometimes as the way that our faith throughout Jewish history a faith that I believe is in some ways guided by God the rabbis wrote at a time in which the entire world believed in quote unquote that part of what happens to you reflects your actions So they had a totally different sensibility I do believe that we can double down hard on both love for our people and also introspection I don’t think that we have to choose one over the other And we can do introspection without victim blaming just for Tisha Be I really just recommend studying as much as possible the days before the destruction of the second temple I’m trying to figure out if there’s any particular book I can recommend We’ll see later if it’s in English we can put in the show notes very powerful invitation to understand it’s not baseless hatred like people weren’t like nice to each other It’s like the kind of the reality in those days of the Second Temple were a such that there were literally people murdering other factions as the Romans were outside the walls of Jerusalem or like lighting on fire stocks of food to force the people to fight in a more desperate way there are people right now that I’ve spoken to in Israel that believe that those were the real heroes of the second temple period meaning what’s called the zealots or the Siccari The podcast that makes sense of Israel’s past and present that’s just the way the rabbis tell the story Part of what I say is that we need to build broad coalitions that can stand up to this way of thinking I think that there has to be a mixture of critical thinking and constructive thinking really important to allow ourselves to sit on the floor and cry and to sing the new keynote dirges that we have from October 7th there is an act of just sitting down and crying that is so important my mother’s father of blessed memory And I had the privilege of seeing him one Tisha B’Av I just remember walking into his living room and seeing him sitting on the floor He was reading just lamentations about Jews from different parts of Jewish history And there were tears and tears streaming down his face and just so much absolute love and pain for our people to allow ourselves to face the ugliness of everything we’ve seen also to face the fact that we’re back in Jewish history real Jew hatred out there that shapes who we are And to do this while also doing introspection So this is not really a way to uplift any of us I do think we need to prepare for Tisha B’Av I know for me it’s a little bit quote unquote easier because I happen to run services So I think a lot about what I want it to look like Figure out how do we connect to both the mourning and the introspection of the day Each week we bring you a 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Before understanding why marijuana triggered Richardson's suspension it's important to understand how anti-doping protocols work The World Anti-Doping Agency was created by the International Olympic Committee to essentially help regulate doping in sports WADA identifies substances that it believes should be prohibited in accordance with its anti-doping code (more on this later) to prevent cheating and help keep athletes safe USADA, the anti-doping arm in the United States is one of WADA's signatories and has agreed to uphold its rules. So when one of the athletes that USADA is testing (Richardson) returns a positive test for one of WADA's prohibited substances (marijuana) USADA is required to punish the athlete which all of us — all countries including the United States — have to follow whether we like the outcome or not," USADA's chief executive officer Travis Tygart told USA TODAY Sports. "And even in sad and tough cases like this one where we might take a different approach." OPINION: Richardson's marijuana ban another example of Olympic hypocrisy CHASING GOLD: Sign up for the latest news as Team USA heads to Tokyo WADA puts a substance on its prohibited list if it determines that substance meets two of the following three criteria: ► It could pose a health risk for athletes WADA does not specify which two of those three boxes are checked by a particular substance. But in the case of marijuana, a 2011 academic paper co-authored by WADA's science director offers some explanation the authors write that athletes who smoke marijuana could endanger theselves or others because of "slower reaction times and poor executive function." They write that marijuana use "is not consistent with the athlete as a role model for young people around the world." And they indicate that the drug might help athletes focus or relieve the stress of competition thereby giving them a leg up on the field of play "Although much more scientific information is needed ... cannabis can be performance enhancing for some athletes and sports disciplines," they write In contrast, a 2017 review of academic literature on the subject found that the main ingredient in marijuana THC, "does not enhance aerobic exercise or strength." Tygart said marijuana's role as a prohibited substance has been debated in anti-doping circles for decades WADA relaxed its rules on at least one of the drug's derivatives Pielke believes WADA's decision to regulate marijuana is overstep, essentially veering into morality. He pointed out that WADA specifies in its own code that it considers some substances to be prohibited "because they are frequently abused in society outside of the context of sport." "Whatever one thinks about recreational drugs given that we have jurisdictions around the world that have legal frameworks to do exactly that?" he said "A lot of attention that could be paid to regulating actual doping drugs gets spent on regulating these morality drugs." As large swaths of the country have legalized recreational marijuana use over the past decade some American sports leagues have relaxed their rules or testing protocols Pielke said he wouldn't be surprised if WADA follows suit at some point and removes THC from its prohibited substances list he said cases like Richardson's – where an athlete received a life-altering sanction for a substance unrelated to her performance – are illustrative of the work that still needs to be done to improve anti-doping rules anti-doping is something that shows up every four years when there's a big scandal," Pielke said. "But once you take a look at it Contact Tom Schad at tschad@usatoday.com or on Twitter @Tom_Schad. The Doctor finds out in a slow but diverting conclusion that eschews the usual high-stakes finale a planet with an atmosphere beset by psychotropic waves a “duo-species” with the power of telepathic dimensional engineering Together over centuries they’ve been miniaturising other worlds to utilise their energy The Doctor’s team meet members of a fleet sent by the Congress of the Nine Planets They must unite to stop Tzim-Sha and the Ux from targeting Earth CastThe Doctor – Jodie WhittakerGraham O’Brien – Bradley WalshRyan Sinclair – Tosin ColeYasmin Khan – Mandip GillAndinio – Phyllis LoganPaltraki – Mark AddyTzim-Sha/Tim Shaw– Samuel OatleyDelph – Percelle AscotUmsang – Jan Le CrewWriter – Chris ChibnallDirector – Jamie ChildsSeries producer – Nikki WilsonMusic – Segun AkinolaDesigner – Arwel Wyn JonesExecutive producers – Chris Chibnall It’s a title to trip off the tongue... Actually, I can think of no more awkward mouthful for a title in the history of Doctor Who. When I was a nipper, The Masque of Mandragora was as challenging as it got I wondered if “Ranskoor Av Kolos” might have some hidden import I got as far as “anorak…” and knew it was time to stop Is it episode 10 of 10 or simply ep 10 of 11 but the official BBC billings have numbered each instalment of this series out of 11 The Battle of doodah (I’m not typing all that out again) certainly isn’t a thrilling high-stakes finale of the sort we’ve come to expect from Doctor Who since 2005. In the old days, by which I mean the olden days of 20th-century Who, each series mostly petered out, perhaps with a regeneration if we were lucky or a comical scene (a Unit sergeant emerging naked from a baby’s nappy; yes, that did happen, in 1972) A series can just come to a satisfying conclusion – and it always strikes me as odd when the last parts of conventional dramas such as Poldark or Line of Duty are trumpeted as “finales!” There is at least a sense of conclusion here, though. Chris Chibnall has brought back Blue-Tooth Man Tim Shaw – no surprise there! – the windbag menace who vanished at the end of episode one for a bit of closure with the Doctor (“I know that voice”) and Graham (“If that is the creature from Sheffield Chibnall ensures the moral dimension isn’t preachy and clunky and in a face-off with Tim Shaw simply immobilises the drear by shooting him in the foot – “Just the foot She’ll be livid.” It’s almost comical – in a series that’s been devoid of humour save for Graham’s geezer asides (and Chris Noth’s masterclass) Halfway into the episode’s transmission on BBC1 I had a text from a dear pal: “This is SO boring.” That made me chuckle I was reasonably engaged for its 50-minute duration This sort of heavy-weather sci-fi with portentous dialogue and ancient powerful races (the Ux and the Stenza – we kept hearing about their unholy alliance) does usually leave me cold But this is a triumph of style over substance Chibnall’s narrative is clear and methodical the pacing incredibly slow but as a whole is elevated by Jamie Childs’s terrific allied to Segun Akinola’s doomy undercurrent of wall-to-wall music challenges and supports his grandad (“We’re family and I love you”) but alas poor Yaz; yet again she has next to nothing to do bar cleaving to the Doc and being her sounding board Mark Addy gives a strong performance of tearful bewilderment as the marooned spaceship commander Paltraki who becomes steadily more steadfast and heroic Phyllis Logan takes a rare trip into fantasy-land as Andinio of the Ux a duo of faith-driven dimensional engineers and she carries off the cobblers with aplomb Was this a catastrophe? Far from it. Was it a classic? Not on your nelly. But as a diverting piece of telly it just about made a wobble in the space-time continuum. It’s a title to trip off the tongue... Actually, I can think of no more awkward mouthful for a title in the history of Doctor Who. When I was a nipper, The Masque of Mandragora was as challenging as it got The Battle of doodah (I’m not typing all that out again) certainly isn’t a thrilling high-stakes finale of the sort we’ve come to expect from Doctor Who since 2005. In the old days, by which I mean the olden days of 20th-century Who, each series mostly petered out, perhaps with a regeneration if we were lucky or a comical scene (a Unit sergeant emerging naked from a baby’s nappy; yes, that did happen, in 1972) There is at least a sense of conclusion here, though. Chris Chibnall has brought back Blue-Tooth Man Tim Shaw – no surprise there! – the windbag menace who vanished at the end of episode one Reference-spotters should delight at the mash-up of other sci-fi, some of the less-important planet-plodding episodes of Blake’s 7, the spaceship graveyard from Alien, the edifice hovering in the sky like one from Arrival (the 2016 movie). And as every proper Doctor Who fan will have noted, the power derived from shrunken planets in stasis is a direct steal from The Pirate Planet a 1978 serial by none other than Douglas Adams borrowings and reinventions hasn’t stood Doctor Who in good stead down the ages But as a diverting piece of telly it just about made a wobble in the space-time continuum you are agreeing to site title privacy policy This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Subscribe to RT!Subscribe to Radio Times magazine and get £10 issues for £10! 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Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. the Shah of Iran with his second wife Queen Soraya two days before the most romantic day of the modern calendar the Shah of Iran married Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari at the Golestan Palace in Tehran the couple divorced and Princess Soraya of Iran would inherit the epithet ‘the princess with the sad eyes’ Soraya’s German and Catholic upbringing made her the object of ‘much distrust’ in the country, with Muslim clerics saying the Shah should not marry this ‘half-European girl’ who was not raised a Muslim. Many years later Soraya would write: ‘I was a dunce. I knew next to nothing of the geography, the legends of my country; nothing of its history, nothing of the Muslim religion’. A chance meeting beside a swimming pool led to the toppling of a government, a new era of tabloid press and the crumbling of the old establishment. As the Profumo affair makes headlines once more Natalie Livingstone looks back to a glamorous weekend house party at Cliveden – the country house estate used to witnessing seismic moments in history After the bride was taken ill by a bad case of typhoid fever, the wedding was postponed from 27 December 1950 to 12 February 1951, two years after their initial meeting. Although Soraya wasn’t entirely well by the second date, the decision was made that the wedding must go ahead. As legend goes, the Shah brought her a jewel every day during her battle with typhoid, placing his gifts on her pillow. The nuptials took place at Golestan Palace. The bride wore a Christian Dior gown, made with 37 yards of silver lamé studded with pearls, 6,000 diamond pieces, and 20,000 marabou feathers. She matched the dress with a jacket and veil for the ceremony, with the creation reportedly weighing 20 kilograms. In fact, so heavy was the dress that midway through proceedings one of Soraya’s ladies-in-waiting took scissors to the train in an attempt to make it lighter. As Stunt walks free at Leeds Crown Court, revisit Tatler’s exclusive 2018 interview with the controversial businessman Following the ceremony, both jacket and veil were exchanged for an emerald and diamond parure and the crown jewels were added. Given it was mid February and the palace was unheated, by the evening the bride was given a mink cape to keep her warm and wool socks to hide beneath her dress. As he announces his engagement to Hum Fleming, revisit this feature from Tatler's October 2023 issue, when Zac Goldsmith spoke of his dramatic departure from the foreign office – and split from his Rothschild wife after Queen Soraya had failed to provide the Shah with a male heir (doctors had informed her she would not be able to conceive ‘for many years’) the Shah tearfully announced their divorce; Soraya said it was ‘a sacrifice of my own happiness’ A year later he married again, to Farah Diba, with whom he had four children, including two boys Following the political uprisings in 1978 and 1979 Wiston Churchill With Shah Pahlavi And Empress Soraya Of Iran In 1955 With the title of HRH Princess Soraya of Iran and ample financial support the princess lived out her life as a globetrotting socialite in Europe starring in the 1965 movie I tre volti (The Three Faces) She also appeared as a character named Soraya in the film She During her final years, Soraya lived in Paris on 46 avenue Montaigne She often attended parties hosted by the Duchess de La Rochefoucauld and enjoyed drinking at the bar of the Hotel Plaza Athénée She was often accompanied by other glittering society figures including another Parisian socialite of the era Soraya was unable to find genuine happiness: a romantic relationship with director Franco Indovina was cut short by his tragic death in a plane crash When she found out that her former husband lay dying of cancer in the late seventies saying she still loved him and would like to see him By the time she reached him in Egypt where he was exiled The love story between them led to historian Abbas Milani describing the pair as true ‘star crossed lovers’ Government Rocket Attacks Over Two Days Kill Four Civilians, Wound Five (Aleppo) – Syrian government fighter planes fired rockets that struck the main emergency hospital in an opposition-controlled area of Aleppo on August 14, 2012, wounding two civilians and causing significant damage, Human Rights Watch said today after visiting the damaged hospital. A rocket attack by government aircraft on the hospital two days earlier, on August 12, apparently killed four civilians and wounded three, Human Rights Watch said. “Fighter jet attacks on a hospital twice in three days indicate that this was no accident,” said Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch. “By firing rockets at a clearly marked hospital, the government shows blatant disregard for civilian lives.” Human Rights Watch visited the Dar al Shifaa Hospital, in the Sha’ar neighborhood of Aleppo, about one hour after the August 14 attack, and examined the physical damage and rocket remnants. Hospital staff told Human Rights Watch that no opposition fighters were deployed at the hospital at the time of the two attacks, and only several armed hospital guards were providing security. Human Rights Watch saw no signs of opposition military activity in or around the hospital building. The hospital is an established medical facility and clearly marked with a red crescent emblem on the front. Hospital medical staff told Human Rights Watch that government aircraft attacked the hospital and a nearby school at about 3 p.m. on August 14. Three or four rockets hit the upper floors of the seven-story hospital, they said. On August 12, government aircraft hit the hospital with six rockets in a similar attack, hospital staff said. The attacks on August 12 and 14 caused major damage to the four upper floors of the hospital, destroying walls, floors, windows, and equipment in operating rooms and other wards. According to the chief physician, Dr. Mohammed Asi, the attack on August 12 killed four civilians outside the hospital and wounded three nurses. The August 14 attack wounded at least two civilians who were on the street outside the hospital, he said. One of the wounded in the August 14 attack was a doctor from a makeshift field hospital in western Aleppo, who said he had stopped by Al Shifaa Hospital to get medical supplies for his clinic. The doctor sustained shrapnel wounds on his upper legs, left foot, and both arms. He told Human Rights Watch that another person was wounded when one of the rockets hit the street near the hospital. Doctors at Al Shifaa Hospital told Human Rights Watch that because the area had been subjected to earlier attacks, they had limited the use of the upper floors to emergency surgery. As a result of the two rocket attacks, hospital staff are now only using the bottom two floors. “We had just finished surgery and moved to the second floor when the rockets hit,” one doctor told Human Rights Watch. “If they had hit just minutes before we would have all been dead.” The doctors said that government forces had used Al Shifaa Hospital until opposition forces took control of the area in late July. In addition to the two recent attacks on Al Shifaa hospital, government forces have allegedly targeted an ambulance in Aleppo. The head of Dar al Shifaa Hospital, Dr. Asi, told Human Rights Watch that a helicopter attacked an ambulance with rockets about 15 days ago, killing the driver, a nurse, and a wounded man in the ambulance. Human Rights Watch was unable to verify his account. “Hospitals, doctors, and ambulances should never be attacked,” Solvang said. “In Aleppo, the Syrian government has flouted this principle of international law.” How Tunisia Uses Arbitrary Detention to Crush Dissent Violations of Pregnant Women’s Rights Amid Israel’s Assault on Gaza Get updates on human rights issues from around the globe. Join our movement today. Get the world’s top human rights news, every day. 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As Ars reported on Tuesday, Microsoft has been furiously nudging Internet Explorer holdouts over to the latest versions of its browser Mozilla banned new certificates signed with the SHA-1 digest algorithm as of January 1 this year Firefox fans affected by Mozilla's decision to shun the hashing algorithm were advised to make sure that their systems—such as AV software and security scanning kit—were up-to-date given that many vendors are now moving away from the weak SHA-1 There is a workaround for those Firefox users who want to altogether skip reinstalling the browser: just visit about:config and change the value of security.pki.sha1_enforcement_level to 0 (zero) This will allow those SHA-1 certs past Mozilla's burly bouncers Mozilla promised it would eventually banish SHA-1 from its browser "The latest version of Firefox re-enables support for SHA-1 certificates to ensure that we can get updates to users behind man-in-the-middle devices, and enable us to better evaluate how many users might be affected," said Mozilla's security bod Richard Barnes Both Microsoft and Google announced late last year that they are also looking at dropping support for security certificates that were signed with SHA-1 The underlying issue is that the cryptographic hashing power of SHA-1 just isn't strong enough in the face of modern computer hardware and thus it's becoming perilously easy to create forged certs.