(JTA) — Israeli actress Gal Gadot’s iconic Wonder Woman character is expected to make an appearance in the upcoming movie “Flashpoint.” “Flashpoint,” a DC Extended Universe film, and the first solo movie for the DC Comics character The Flash, is scheduled to be released in 2020, Forbes columnist Mark Hughes reported over the weekend. It will…
Legendary TV producer Norman Lear announced Friday that he will not attend a White House reception for this year’s winners of the Kennedy Center Honors in protest of President Trump. Lear told the New York Times on Thursday that Trump “has chosen to neglect totally the arts and humanities — deliberately defund them — and…
(JTA) — Police in southern Sweden are investigating an anti-Israel protest to determine whether the crowd chanted anti-Semitic epithets. The Swedish-Palestinian Centre in Helsingborg held several anti-Israel protests last month while tensions were running high at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, The Local-Sweden reported. But at least one of the protests may have degenerated into…
(JTA) — Two Chinese tourists were arrested in Germany for making the “Heil Hitler” salute. The men, ages 36 and 49, made the illegal salute in front of the Reichstag building, where the German parliament meets, Reuters reported. They were taking photos of each other making the salute. The men were arrested for “using symbols…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party has proposed a plan to deliver so-called “kosher” electricity to largely Orthodox areas on Shabbat. Under the plan submitted Sunday, small power stations would be built to power the cities and towns and would be disconnected from the national grid on Shabbat, Ynet reported. The…
(JTA) — Senegal and Guinea are sending ambassadors to Israel for the first time. The two predominantly Muslim countries in West Africa are to present their credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported. The two will serve as non-resident ambassadors. Senegal’s Talla Fall, who also represents the country in…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic messages and a swastika were spray-painted on the building and sign of a synagogue in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The messages were discovered on Friday morning at the Temple Beit Torah. In addition to the synagogue, nearby cars, homes and buildings also were vandalized, the Colorado Spring Gazette reported. In addition to a…
(JTA) — Until recently, Ray Allen was known for being the NBA’s all-time leader in made three-pointers. Then last December, President Obama appointed the former All-Star as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. It was a surprising announcement to those who didn’t know Allen had been taking his teammates to the U.S. Holocaust…
(JTA) — White House House policy adviser Stephen Miller reportedly is under consideration to be White House communications director. He would replace Anthony Scaramucci, was let go in part because of an obscenity-laden interview he gave to The New Yorker magazine late last month. He wasn’t set to formally take the job until Aug. 15,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said one of the reasons she would not fire a staffer under investigation for alleged information technology violations was that she believed he was being profiled because he was a Muslim. Wasserman Schultz spoke to her hometown newspaper, the Sun-Sentinel, for the first time this week about an…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The story of America’s oldest synagogue, as told by retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, is the story of American Jewish history. Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, Souter wrote, was built in the 1700s by Sephardic merchants whose community then declined. In the late 1800s, Eastern European Jews arrived in…
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