A Mexican judge has blocked a company associated with U.S. toymaker Mattel Inc from commercializing the image of artist Frida Kahlo, her family says, as it seeks to halt sales of a Barbie doll styled after the influential artist. Mattel, which manufactures Hot Wheels toys and Barbies, launched an “inspiring women” series of dolls featuring…
The pen is mightier than the sword but the paintbrush of Jim Carrey ain’t half bad. The comedian, adding to a growing series of political artwork he has been posting on Twitter, has produced two artistic renderings of President Trump’s lawyer, the unctuous Michael Cohen. Auto-moronic ASSphyxiation. ;^P pic.twitter.com/VA6mmkjtk0 — Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) April 19,…
Disgraced Republican fundraiser Elliot Broidy used his connections to urge President Trump to play a game of golf with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Razak, who is under investigation by American prosecutors for the alleged embezzlement of $3.5 billion, was denied the customary Oval Office photo during his visit with the president last year because…
Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians and wounded 12 in renewed unrest on the Gaza-Israel border on Friday as a series of protests in the enclave reached its half-way mark. Some Palestinians brought wire-cutters to cut through the border fence. As the crowd grew, Israeli soldiers called out warnings in Arabic over loudspeakers to individuals…
(JTA) — The president of Romania, who has the final word on foreign policy issues, dismissed claims by a senior lawmaker in Bucharest who said his country would be the first European Union member state to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. President Klaus Iohannis on Friday denied in a statement the veracity of assertions…
(JTA) — Rachel Weisz, the Jewish actress who starred in the award-winning Holocaust-themed film “Denial” is expecting a baby at 48. Weisz, who is married to James Bond star Daniel Craig, revealed the impending arrival to the New York Times, saying in an interview published Friday: “I’ll be showing soon. Daniel and I are so…
(JTA) — Israel’s culture minister said actress Natalie Portman has “fallen like a ripe fruit into the hands of the BDS movement supporters” over her refusal to come to Israel to receive an award. Miri Regev’s assertion Friday about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel and Portman, an Israeli-born Jew, followed news Thursday…
(JTA) — Magician David Copperfield was forced to reveal the secret behind one of his most famous tricks in court this week. The 61-year-old illusionist from New Jersey, who is Jewish, is being sued for negligence by a British man who claims to have been injured while taking part in one of his shows at…
A lawyer and close Jewish confidant of President Trump has warned him that Michael Cohen is virtually certain to cooperate with prosecutors if he faces a lengthy prison term. Jay Goldberg, who did extensive legal work for the Donald, told Trump that on a loyalty scale of 1 to 100, Cohen is “less than 1,”…
(JTA) — Syracuse University has suspended a campus fraternity after a video surfaced of members using racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and ableist slurs. In the video, discovered by the Daily Orange, Syracuse’s student newspaper, a member of Theta Tau gets on his knees and repeats an oath with slurs against blacks, Hispanics and Jews, among others….
The Washington, D.C. lawmaker who was accused of anti-Semitism after accusing a Jewish family of controlling the weather was invited to a private tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — which he reportedly bailed on halfway through. Trayon White, a 33-year-old Democrat who began serving on the D.C. Council last year, posted a…
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