(JTA) — The Weinstein Company will declare bankruptcy after a $500 million deal to sell the production company fell through. The company, which has struggled to stay solvent since allegations of sexual misconduct against co-owner Harvey Weinstein were made public in October, made the announcement late on Sunday night in a statement. The company is…
(JTA) — A “Polocaust” museum dedicated to non-Jewish Polish victims of the Nazis will not be built, a Polish government minister who supported the idea said. Deputy Culture Minister Jaroslaw Sellin on Monday walked back his support of the idea, floated last week by writer and scholar Marek Kochan in the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita, saying it…
The California Democratic Party refused to endorse Sen. Dianne Feinstein for a fifth term at their convention over the weekend, indicating a growing disconnect between the moderate senator and her liberal constituency. The endorsement of a sitting senator should have been a cake walk. But Feinstein, 84, encountered a an angry party convention, with delegates…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A letter signed by a group of 50 Poles honored by Yad Vashem with the title of Righteous Among the Nations appeals to the governments of both Israel and Poland to return “to the path of dialogue and reconciliation.” “Please do not write the history anew,” reads the letter sent Monday…
(JTA) — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team has earned its first berth in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament in program history. The Maccabees on Sunday defeated Purchase College, 87-81, to win the Skyline Conference championship and earned automatic qualification into the tournament. “There is nothing much to say. We are champs,” Yeshiva University…
Schwartzman wins 2018 Rio Open
Look around, look around — how lucky we are to be alive right now: Lin-Manuel Miranda, the literal genius behind “Hamilton,” just promoted an old recording of the Jewish a capella group he sang with in college, the Mazel Tones. And you don’t have to wait for it to listen — here’s a snippet: Hey…
In an interview stretching nearly half an hour, CNN’s Jake Tapper grilled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel over his department’s response to the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead. Tapper started by asking Israel about reports that his department’s designated school resource officer, Scot Peterson, did not enter the building during…
(JTA) — Louisiana College, a private Baptist college, denies accusations that its president refused to hire one of its alumni as a football coach due to his Jewish background. Joshua Bonadona filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the college and its president, Rick Brewer. The lawsuit alleges that Bonadona applied for a job as defensive…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A proposal to begin legalizing the West Bank outpost of Netiv Haavot was approved by Israel’s Cabinet. More than a dozen homes on the outpost, located 11 miles south of Jerusalem in the Etzion bloc, are scheduled to be demolished next week. The Cabinet approval on Sunday includes funds for the outpost,…
(JTA) — A conservative Jewish columnist speaking at CPAC, an influential annual conference for conservatives, required protection after comments criticizing Republican Party “hypocrites” for ignoring sexual misconduct by the president of the United States. Mona Charen, a senior fellow for the Ethics & Public Policy Center, spoke on Saturday on a panel called “#UsToo: Left out…
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