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Surprise: The Dutch Rapper Who Used ‘Anne Frank’ As Her Stage Name Is Anti-Semitic
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch rapper who went by the stage name ‘Anne Frank’ said Wednesday that she will change the name following an outcry and the revelation of past anti-Semitic statements. The 25-year-old performer, whose real name may be Anne van der Does, according to the GeenStijl website, said she was shortening her stage name…
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Gamers Rejoice: Bernie Sanders Now Has A Twitch Account
As any 2020 presidential contender might tell you, the youth vote is important. Which explains why Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, hot off announcing a plan to cancel $1.6 trillion of student debt, is planning a series of videos to be streamed on Twitch, a tremendously popular live-streaming platform that caters to gamers and is known…
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The Forward Racks Up 15 Awards At The Rockowers
The 38th Annual Simon Rockower Awards for excellence in Jewish journalism has announced its 2019 winners. The Forward walked away with 15 winners in 11 categories. Winners — which represented Division A, for publications with circulations of 15,000 or over — range in area from investigative reporting, cultural criticism, personal essays, feature writing and design….
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Spike Lee’s Wild, Wonderful World Of Jews
“It’s cheap, I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, ‘How I’m doing,’ chocolate-egg-cream-drinking, bagel and lox, B’nai B’rith asshole!” Not bad … but what about “neurotic,” “dreidel-spinning,” “self-hating,” and all the rest? Then again, the Korean grocer who hurls anti-Semitic slurs at the camera midway through Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing,” which…
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A New Novel Co-Authored By Stan Lee Is Coming This Fall
Stan Lee may have made his final film cameo in “Avengers: Endgame,” but we haven’t heard the last of him. The late Marvel publisher, who died last November at the age of 95, has a new book coming this fall — and it’s not a comic. “A Trick of the Light,” one of Lee’s final…
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The Berlin Jewish Museum’s Director Resigned Over A BDS Controversy. Scholars Are Rallying To Support Him.
Days after the resignation of Peter Schäfer from his role as director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, nearly 500 scholars from around the world voiced support of his leadership and admiration for his contributions to the field of Jewish studies. Schäfer resigned on June 14 following backlash over a tweet, sent from the Museum’s Twitter account,…
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Nintendo Opens Its Second Official Store In Tel Aviv
We hope Mario likes shawarma. On June 24, Nintendo opened its second ever brick-and-mortar store in Tel Aviv, Israel. The video game company, known for its stable of colorful characters and inventive hardware, launched its first official retail location in 2005 at Rockefeller Center. With the Tel Aviv location, its second ever, we sense a…
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‘Ishtar’ Is Still Far From Perfect — But It’s Still Unlike Anything Else
Elaine May’s 1987 flop, “Ishtar,” might well be the most accomplished punching bag in cinematic history. The reasons aren’t hard to figure out, but are almost too numerous to name. Well before the film hit theaters, reports of infighting between May, her cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, the post-production team and the cast leaked to the press…
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The Terror Attack That Wasn’t — Pride And Poetry in Dupont Circle
I was not shot as I lay on the floor of a Japanese restaurant in Washington D.C. while the city’s Pride Parade erupted into panic. Not a scratch on me. I didn’t suffer a sprained ankle or other light injuries as others did, from running through the streets that radiate out from Dupont Circle. This…
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Former Mueller Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann To Write Book On Special Counsel Investigation
What do you do when you conclude a highly secretive, nearly two-year-long investigation into a sitting president? Get a book deal, of course. Andrew Weissmann, one of the top prosecutors on former special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, is breaking his silence on the inner workings of Mueller’s probe into the president and his advisors, The…
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Q&A: Author Julie Salamon On Leon Klinghoffer And The Hijacking That Horrified The World
In October 1985, guerrillas connected to the Palestinian Liberation Front hijacked an Italian cruise ship called the Achille Lauro. All of the passengers survived — save for Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled 69-year-old Jewish-American retiree. Klinghoffer was shot twice by the leader of the hijackers, Majid al-Molqi, and tossed into the ocean by two crew members…
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