Radio Free Europe reported.

A report in the UK Guardian newspaper in late September said many of the Iranian refugees arriving in Serbia “first cross into Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the longer border gives them a better chance”.

It cited Bosnian media reports as saying that the number of Iranians seeking asylum in Bosnia until September this year stood at 1,647 compared to 16 in the whole of last year.

The same report cited Goran Puanovic from the NGO INFO Park as saying that the Iranian migrants passing through Serbia were usually gay, or Christian, or politically oppressed.

It cited one migrant in Serbia as saying: “In Iran, my biggest threat was my own family, not the government. Family is the biggest problem when it comes to LGBT.”

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Synagogue Swingers Swipe at Softballs

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Har Zion Temple's Steve Mendelsohn at the plate in the synagogue's face off against Young Israel of the Main Line/Aish of Philadelphia
Photo by Jordan Cassway

Clank. The aluminum bat made sharp contact with the leather-covered softball, thrown so slowly that it seemed to momentarily hang in the summer air before being driven toward the dirt.

The hitter's teammates could tell by the high-pitched sound that he didn't get all of it. So 71-year-old Jim Brody tossed the bat aside and made his best effort at a sprint, lifting his knees high above the ground while the shortstop scooped up the ball and hurled it toward first base.

Brody was thrown out by a country mile, but that didn't seem to bother him much.

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