Shakira is under fire for selling a tour merchandise necklace resembling a Nazi symbol, according to Hollywood Reporter. German publication Bento first called out the necklace, a featured product for the singer’s El Dorado tour, for bearing similarities to the Nazi Black Sun symbol, which encompasses swastikas. The Black Sun was first used in a…
(JTA) — A Muslim-British businessman was sentenced to 100 hours of community service for an anti-Semitic rant on an airplane last year. Shamraize Bashir, 34, a businessman from Bradford, in northern England, blamed his anti-Semitic comments made in June last year on smoking cannabis during Ramadan, the British newspaper the Daily Mail reported on Monday….
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A new museum in Poland will exhibit over 40,000 accounts of Polish Christians who saved Jews during the Holocaust. The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage will donate $22 million to the “Saint John Paul II Memory and Identity Museum,” whose goal is to present the over 1000-year history of Christian…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump took a swipe at the Jewish Democratic lawmaker challenging Nevada’s sitting Republican senator. Trump nicknamed Nevada Rep. Jacky Rosen “Wacky Jacky” on Saturday in a speech to the Nevada state GOP convention. Rosen, a freshman congresswoman who served as president of her suburban Las Vegas Reform synagogue, is challenging Republican…
Prince William today will begin the first ever official visit to Israel by a member of the British royal family. Due to arrive from Jordan on the evening of June 25 for a three-day tour he will visit, among other places, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem’s Old City and two as-yet unspecified events in Tel Aviv. Though…
(JTA) — Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef and writer who hosted popular food and travel shows on CNN, did not have narcotics in his body when he died. Bourdain’s death earlier this month at age 61 was ruled a suicide by hanging by French police, after his body was found in a hotel bathroom in…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court, winding down its nine-month term, will issue rulings this week in its few remaining cases including a major one on the legality of President Donald Trump’s ban on people from five Muslim-majority nations entering the country. The nine justices are due to decide other politically sensitive cases on whether…
Channeling the skills that he honed over seasons of “The Apprentice” (though not the skills of civil debate), President Donald Trump went to Nevada to stump for Republican senate candidate Dean Heller. Brushing off the immigration furor that has surrounded his administration for the past week, he chose to tease and play with the crowd…
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has released an edited transcript and audio recording of the interview he conducted with former ABC star Roseanne Barr shortly after the cancellation of her series “Roseanne.” In the interview, Barr claims that she “never would have wittingly called any black person…a monkey.” “It’s really hard to say this but, I didn’t…
(JTA) — British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, under fire for having anti-Israel views born out of anti-Semitism, said in a tweet that a Labour-led government would recognize Palestine as a state. Corbyn, on a tour of camps in Jordan for Syrian and Palestinian refugees as part of his first international trip outside of Europe…
In response to the fire kites, fire condoms and fire balloons that have been sent from Gaza to burn Israeli property in the past week, the Israeli military have carried out five strikes in 24 hours on Palestinians in Gaza. According to Haaretz, the IDF said the strikes were on Hamas targets in Gaza and…
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