(JTA) — Israeli actress Gal Gadot cancelled her appearance at an awards dinner honoring director and producer Brett Ratner. Gadot, best known as the star of “Wonder Woman,” was scheduled to present the Tree of Life Award to Ratner at a Jewish National Fund dinner Sunday in Hollywood. She backed out of the dinner, for…
(JTA) — A note reading “Jews will burn” was left on the locker of a sixth grader at a middle school in southwestern Connecticut. The superintendent of the Wilton city schools, Kevin Smith, told parents of students at Middlebrook Middle School about the incident in a letter sent home on Friday. The letter said that…
The official Madrid-based federation of Spanish Jews issued a statement October 27 opposing Catalonia’s effort to declare itself an independent republic. The statement, from the Federación de Comunidades Judías en España, voiced the group’s “profound worry over the serious national crisis” provoked by the Catalonian parliament’s unilateral declaration of independence on Friday. “As Spanish Jews,…
Reddit has begun implementing new rules banning forums for Nazis and white supremacist groups. The company outlined the update to its policy on Wednesday with a statement on the site. “Going forward, we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a…
In a segment on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Thursday, former senior White House official Sebastian Gorka suggested that Hillary Clinton should be charged with treason. “If this had happened in the 1950s, there would be people up on treason charges right now,” Gorka said, according to a clip circulated by the liberal group Media…
As a portion of Anne Frank’s diary was read over the loudspeaker at an Italian soccer match Wednesday night, a number of fans chose to turn their backs to the field and sing the Italian anthem, Deadspin reported. The reading and a moment of silence at the game for S.S. Lazio had been planned to…
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s former counter-terrorism aide, compared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to 1950s communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Thursday for her role in the approval of an international uranium deal. Speaking on Fox News’ Sean Hannity program, Gorka appeared to suggest that, like the Rosenbergs, who were executed, Clinton, too, should…
White nationalist groups are expected to rally this Saturday in Tennessee in what is being called a “White Lives Matter” gathering in the towns of Shelbyville and Murfreesboro. Speakers on the bill include League of the South president Michael Hill and Matthew Heimbach, a leader in the Traditionalist Worker Party, the Daily News Journal reported….
The crisis over the Broadway Triangle continued this week, with opposing sides exchanging barbs ahead of a major zoning vote. A group of activists called for Councilman David Greenfield, who supports a major development in the Triangle, to recuse himself from the vote in a letter sent this week. They cite his close ties to…
(JTA) — Two Israelis won medals at a judo tournament in Abu Dhabi, but tournament organizers refused to play the customary national anthem of the medalists. Tal Flicker stood on the podium to receive his gold medal in the men’s under-145 pound category on Thursday, the first day of the Grand Slam tournament in the…
Look, 2017 has been a tough year. Political divisions have torn our country apart. Climate change is making our planet increasingly inhospitable. “The Emoji Movie” was a thing. But lo, good news has emerged from the food wizards of Monrovia, California: Trader Joe’s will soon be selling Bamba. The famed Israeli snack, which is frustratingly…
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