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Mayim Bialik Flashes Piers Morgan on Late Night Television

NEW YORK (JTA) — Actress Mayim Bialik, a public advocate of her Jewish faith and modesty, showed her cleavage to Piers Morgan on a talk show. On Monday’s “Late Late Show with James Corden,” the “Big Bang Theory” star declared herself a feminist before turning her back to the cameras and pulling down the front…

By JTA Feb 9, 2016 | < 1 min read
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Bar Refaeli Claims Tax Shelter for Being Shacked Up With Leonardo DiCaprio

Supermodel Bar Refaeli told Israeli tax authorities that she should be exempt from paying her 2009-10 taxes because she was living with then-boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio in his mansion in the United States. Refaeli, 30, is suspected of failing to report gifts and discounts on luxury goods, including cars and an apartment, that are subject to…

By JTA Feb 9, 2016 | < 1 min read
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Archeologists Slam Construction at Western Wall for Egalitarian Prayer Deal

New construction aimed at providing a space for non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall would damage “the most important archaeological site for the Jewish people,” a group of Israeli archaeologists said. In a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu, nine senior archaeologists urged the prime minister to abort plans for construction, the Times of Israel reported. The…

By JTA Feb 9, 2016 | < 1 min read
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Jewish Jogger Stabbed Near West Bank Settlement

A Jewish-Israeli jogger was moderately wounded in a stabbing near a West Bank settlement. The victim was stabbed in the shoulder on Tuesday evening at the entrance to Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc and taken to a Jerusalem hospital. Israeli security forces were searching the area for the attacker, according to the IDF….

By JTA Feb 9, 2016 | < 1 min read
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U. of Illinois Menorah Vandalized — for Third Time

A menorah outside the Chabad house at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was vandalized for the third time in 10 months. The vandalism took place early Sunday morning outside the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, a surveillance video released by the University of Illinois Police Department shows, the Daily Illini student newspaper reported. The…

By JTA Feb 9, 2016 | < 1 min read
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Lena Dunham Skips ‘Girls’ Events Due to Disease

With the debut of “Girls” season five quickly approaching, show creator and star Lena Dunham announced she will not be doing press for the show due to a health condition, endometriosis. Dunham posted a photo and statement on Facebook detailing her current state of health. “I just wanted to let you know that, while I…

By JTA Feb 9, 2016 | < 1 min read
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Dutch Jew: I Stay Off Social Media To Avoid Anti-Semitic Abuse

The deputy prime minister of the Netherlands said that he had stopped interacting on social media because of anti-Semitic abuse against him. Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher, who has Jewish ancestors, wrote this in a post on Facebook on Tuesday titled “Disrespectful Dog.” In it, he lists the handles of several Twitter users who used…

By JTA Feb 9, 2016 | < 1 min read
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Sheldon Adelson Claims He Doesn’t Really Own Israeli Paper — or Does He?

An attorney for Sheldon Adelson told Israel’s Supreme Court that the billionaire casino magnate does not own the daily newspaper Israel Hayom. At a hearing Monday in the Supreme Court, attorney Avigdor Klagsbald disclosed for the first time that the newspaper is owned by an Adelson relative. Adelson has been cited frequently in media reports…

By JTA Feb 9, 2016 | < 1 min read

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