CNN FIRES GAZA-BASED PHOTOJOURNALIST DISCOVERED TO BE EMBEDDED WITH HAMAS

CNN Fires Gaza-Based Photojournalist Discovered to Be Embedded With Hamas
Benjamin Lindsay --Thu, November 9, 2023 at 4:38 PM EST·2 min read

CNN has severed ties with Gaza-based photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah after he was discovered to be embedded with terrorist group Hamas.

The news network said in a statement Thursday that their working relationship with the freelancer began after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel — attacks that the organization maintained it “had no prior knowledge of.”

“We had no prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks. Hassan Eslaiah, a freelance journalist who has worked with a number of international and Israeli outlets, was not working for the network on Oct. 7. As of today, we have severed all ties with him,” the statement read. MORE AT CNN Fires Gaza-Based Photojournalist Discovered to Be Embedded With Hamas (yahoo.com)

ELEANOR KWEI, MAPPING A PATH TO COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short Everything Croton.

Mapping a Path to Community Involvement
Sofia Cummins — November 9, 2023

To local artist and Croton-on-Hudson resident Eleanor Kwei, art serves as a bridge in connecting the community.

Growing up with diplomat parents from the Republic of China, Kwei’s upbringing led her to live on four different continents before she turned 18. She found solace in art, using it as a “visual language for socializing and blending in.” Fifteen years ago, when Kwei made the move to Croton, she sought to use her artistic skills to benefit the community. MORE AT Mapping a Path to Community Involvement – River Journal Online – News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill

CROTON-HARMON TIGER MADNESS 11/17

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short Everything Croton.

Come celebrate the official tip-off of the CHHS basketball season with “Tiger Madness!”----click on the image--Fri 11/17 at 6:30 -7:30

CHHS Main Gym
K-12 welcome for contests, games, and an opportunity to meet the high school basketball athletes!

Croton-Harmon Schools
Croton Harmon High School PTSA
Croton- Harmon H.S. Athletics
Croton-Harmon High School

CONFRONTING PANDEMIC TYRANNY

Confronting Pandemic Tyranny  BY AARON KHERIATY   NOVEMBER 8

I am pleased to share this splendid review of The New Abnormal by Paul Seaton, originally published in Law and Liberty.

In 2019, Aaron Kheriaty was a professor of psychiatry and chair of medical ethics at the University of California Irvine. A year later he found himself on the front lines of our Covid wars. As a dual expert, he followed the science and his conscience. In doing so, he became a combatant and casualty in the wars, as he lost his job for refusing to comply with the university’s vaccine mandate.

Happily, he landed on his feet and now works at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Zephyr Institute, and Brownstone Institute, which continues to publish important information about our pandemic response.

Among such warriors of conscience with scars, he stands out for a few reasons. One is his philosophical training and bent. Another is his (discreet) Catholic faith. Catholicism is receptive to the best of reason, both scientific and philosophical. Kheriaty embodies this “both-and” tradition. It allows him to take the measure of the “greatness and misery” of modern science and to critique scientific-technological projects that presume man is god.   MORE AT Confronting Pandemic Tyranny ⋆ Brownstone Institute

LOHUD--WHAT WILL NEW HS GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS IN NYS LOOK LIKE?

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short Everything Croton.

What will new HS graduation requirements in NYS look like? Recommendations coming Monday--Diana Dombrowski
Rockland/Westchester Journal News

What it takes to earn a high school diploma in New York is on the cusp of change.

Will New York's venerable Regents exams lose their central role?

After doing extensive research and gathering feedback from students, parents and others, a state commission dedicated to rethinking New York's graduation requirements will share its recommendations with the state Board of Regents Monday.

"We have listened, we have agreed to disagree, but we've done it with respect and we've done it with a sense of openness," state Education Commission Betty Rosa said during last month's Board of Regents meeting. READ MORE AT New York commission to recommend new high school diploma requirements (lohud.com)