On Wednesday the South Australian Legislative Council did something it had twice refused to do: it passed Sarah Game's bill to all but ban abortion after 25 weeks, 10 votes to nine. The arithmetic the Wrap flagged a fortnight ago — three new One Nation members in the chamber — did exactly what was predicted. Then, hours later, the House of Assembly killed the bill 36 to nine. Premier and Opposition Leader both voted for it; the floor voted it down anyway. The most extreme abortion measure ever put to a South Australian parliament got closer than any of its predecessors.

Welcome to the 20 June 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-20-june-2026/

September 20, 2026 – Freethinkers Weekend Gathering (Albany, NY)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ffrf.org/outreach/events/september-20-2026-freethinkers-weekend-gathering-albany-ny/

"I recently presented a paper on #KhaimZhitlovsky, a major proponent of #secular #Jewish #diaspora nationalism and Jewish nationhood, at the Association for #Canadian #JewishStudies annual conference at #YorkUniversity in #Toronto.

#Zhitlovsky was born in #Ushachi near #Vitebsk in what is now #Belarus in 1865. A leading architect of secular #Jewishculture and thought, he was a central figure in the progressive Jewish intelligentsia of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in #Canada and the #UnitedStates.

At a Jewish International Cultural Conference organized in #Paris in September 1937, the Alveltlekher #Yiddisher Kultur Farband (#YKUF) was founded, and he was one of the supporters. As the honorary president of the YKUF in the #UnitedStates, Zhitlovsky became an icon of the #Yiddishist #Communist movement, particularly in western Canada, where he had inspired the founding of a strong secular #Yiddish school system."

https://jewishpostandnews.ca/features/a-left-wing-yiddishist-in-western-canada/