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News No gender-segregated swimming at nature reserves, Israel’s deputy AG says
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority has no right to allow separate-sex swimming at its nature reserves, according to a legal opinion drafted recently by Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber. The authority had instituted separate swimming hours at the Enot Tsukim reserve on the northern Dead Sea in what it described as a pilot project….
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jews Protest Women-Only Pond Allowing Trans Swimmers
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Fast Forward Men-Only Swimming Hours At Majority-Orthodox Condo Pool Is Illegal, Court Rules
(JTA) — A federal appeals court has ruled that separate swimming hours at a condominium complex in Lakewood, New Jersey is illegal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a decision on Monday said that the separate swimming hours in the outdoor pool of the A Country Place over-55 community were a…
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Breaking News Nice Jewish Boy Anthony Ervin Is the Oldest Male Individual Swimming Champion
— Jewish swimmer Anthony Ervin became the oldest Olympic gold medalist in an individual swimming event, at 35 capping a comeback from burnout and drug use in the aftermath of his gold medal at 19. Ervin edged France’s Florent Manaudou by one one-hundredth of a second in the men’s 50-meter freestyle race Friday night in Rio….
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