Eric Mack of CNET reports that it was the closest approach, 6,200km, in NASA’s database of known near-Earth objects.

It begins early for me this week. First week in new job, and I’m exhausted.

שבת שלום!

The city council has backed a resolution against far-right extremism, AFP reports.

Is this the new normal? A 1930s rerun!

Bjørn Lomborg writes in the New York Post that even if all flights were grounded, temperatures would be reduced by just 0.054 degrees, using mainstream climate models.

“A ship carrying French cognac to Tzar Nicholas II’s Russia was sunk in the Baltic Sea more than 100 years ago.” The Local reports. “The cargo has now been salvaged.”

“Sweden’s national bomb squad has been called out to 30 blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year, more than twice the number in the same period in 2018,” Jon Henley of the Guardian writes.

More than 11,000 scientists from around the world say there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet, Eric Roston of Bloomberg reports.

שבת שלום

It’s been an unusual weekend. Two German events have been on my mind: the 1989 revolution against communist oppression and the 1934 pogrom against Jews known as the Kristallnacht.

On Friday night, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in a Malmö restaurant. His friend was seriously wounded. The violence in this city must stop. There are far too many guns about.

Matt Lebovic of The Times of Israel writes about the German Jew who pioneered what became the modern gay-rights movement.

Here we go again—170 rockets fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip today.

Aamna Mohdin of the Guardian writes about a bizarre interview.

A talk-show host on the conservative radio station was fired mid-show Saturday after criticising Donald Trump, Sam Tabachnik of the Denver Post reports.

Badmouthing the Führer comes with a price in Alt-Right America.

Swedish prosecutors today said they will not proceed with investigation into Julian Assange, Ben Quinn of the Guardian reports.

A dead man was found in a Stockholm flat on today after apparently having lain there for three years before the alarm was raised, The Local reports.

Pete Buttigieg now has a 9-percentage-point lead in Iowa.

But same-sex relationships are sill illegal in 38 of the countries and punishable by death in five—Nigeria, Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, Antonia Wilson of Guardian reports.

According to a some scientists, the world may already have crossed a series of climate tipping points. Problem is that we’ve heard this a billion times before.

ויכל אלהים ביום השׁביעי, מלאכתו אשׁר עשׂה; וישׁבת ביום השׁביעי, מכל‐מלאכתו אשׁר עשׂה. ויברך אלהים את‐יום השׁביעי, ויקדשׁ אתו: כי בו שׁבת מכל‐מלאכתו, אשׁר‐ברא אלהיםלעשׂות.