Ron Jeremy, an adult film legend who is plagued by allegations of rape and sexual assault, was banned from attending the 2018 AVN Entertainment Expo Awards, the Blast reported. The awards are considered the Oscars of pornography, and they are the centerpiece of a weekend expo in Las Vegas. Representatives for the awards said that…
(JTA) — Former British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks met with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to help him frame religious and historical elements of his speech before Israel’s Knesset. Sacks and Pence met in New York for 90 minutes prior to Pence’s departure for a two-day visit to Israel, part of trip that also included…
(JTA) — A soccer team in Rome that plastered a stadium with stickers showing Anne Frank wearing the uniform of a rival city club has been fined. The Lazio FC team will pay a fine of $61,000, but will not have to play two games without fans as requested by the Italian football federation prosecutor….
(JTA) — A temple in Boston and a temple in Philadelphia are making a friendly bet on next week’s Super Bowl, with charity being the winner. Congregation Rodeph Shalom of Philadelphia and Temple Israel of Boston have agreed to a Tzedakah Super Bowl Wager over the results of the big game. The synagogues announced the…
(JTA) — The principal of a Catholic high school in Rhode Island resigned after a short video surfaced showing him slurring black and Jewish people. Jay Brennan, the longtime principal of Bishop Hendricken High School, resigned Friday over the video. The all-boys school is 13 percent minority, WPRI TV reported, citing statistics released by a…
The Big Apple Circus’s Grandma the Clown, portrayed by Jewish performer Barry Lubin, has resigned after admitting to coercing a 16-year-old aerialist into posing for sexually inappropriate photos, the New York Times reported. In 2004, Lubin offered Zoey Dunne work in Big Apple Circus’s mini troupe for hire, but before beginning work, he brought her…
Florida is one of 20 U.S. states that have already enacted measures to confront companies that boycott Israel. Now, the Tallahassee Democrat is reporting that state legislatures are poised to toughen the already existing anti-BDS law, making it even harder for companies to do business with Florida if they chose to boycott Israel. The new…
A Finnish journalist of Palestinian descent is claiming she asked to agree to a strip search Monday at Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office ahead of his visit with Vice President Pence, the Independent reported. The journalist claims she was asked to remove her bra after being taken behind a curtain for questioning, a pat-down and scanning…
Missouri’s strict abortion laws may have finally met their challenge. And it is coming from Satanic worshipers. A woman going by the name “Mary Doe” filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Missouri’s supreme court, arguing that the state’s limitations on abortions violate her religious rights as a member of the Satanic Temple. She was referring to…
Singer Erykah Badu prides herself of being able to see something good in everyone, even the worst of people. “I saw something good in Hitler,” she said in a recent interview with Vulture. What exactly was that positive something she found about Adolf Hitler? “Hitler was a wonderful painter,” Badu added. (She relented this point…
Listeners to Vice President Mike Pence’s speech to Israel Knesset on Monday were impressed by its biblical references and by the way it played to Jewish sensitivities. Now, the Times of Israel is reporting that this is no coincidence. Pence got help with his speech from one of the most prominent rabbinical voices of modern…
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