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The faithful of Borough Park have a saying: “We are all of one face,” wrote New York Magazine last week in advance of Levi Aron, the outcast awaiting trial for the murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky.

This afternoon New York Magazine posted a blockbuster story that the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has revealed the results of a three-year investigation into sexual abuse into Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community: 85 sexual predators arrested and 117 victims identified, citing the NY Post. This is a staggering number of arrests in a comparatively small community theoretically comprised of the most devout and God-loving Jews in the city.

Climate Breakthrough in Durban

A two-decades old battle on how to curtail global warming may have ended in a good place in Durban, South Africa by bringing developing countries including China and India into a new agreement with the “legal force” to limit their fossil fuel emissions. In this new approach, it’s not only the industrial nations that are obligated to reduce pollution and their greenhouse gases. Read on at Bloomberg News

Also: Americans: Undecided About God? New York Times

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Self Love Is Saying ‘No’ To Fashion Body Images You Hate

Yesterday Vogue Italia posted Ten Rules for Learning to Love your body. It’s a good list and my favs include:

3. Loving your body, fulfilling your dreams and following your passions is not a question of weight: there’s no need to wait to lose weight before being the person you want to me. It’s better to start pursuing your dreams immediately.

5. Ad campaign images and the ones in the magazines are absurdly over-retouched in Photoshop. This is why the women seem so perfect: but you can’t be like models who don’t exist in the real world.

9. Lean to understand and interpret the bad habits that damage your positive perception of your own body. Try to analyse and avoid them.

It’s time for us to get involved in the Karlie Kloss as ‘The Body’ discussion, resulting from her Vogue editorial push back. I picked up the topic on AOC Shop this morning (our not ready for prime time shopping site) writing: