Different weekend, similar story: “Wonder Woman” is box office royalty. The Warner Bros. and DC Comics standalone will have earned $57.2 million from 4,165 theaters by the end of its second weekend, putting it solidly in first place. That’s only a 45% drop from its opening weekend, giving the film an estimated $205 million domestically…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli woman was detained by police after streaking naked through the Western Wall Plaza. The woman removed her clothes on the women’s side of the Plaza on Sunday afternoon and then calmly started walking toward the men’s section. One person approached the woman and tried to cover her up with a…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Vandals spray painted a swastika inside a Star of David on the entrance wall of a Jewish sports club located on a busy avenue in Rio. The Nazi symbol, drawn backwards, appeared inside the three-foot-tall Jewish symbol that identifies the Brazilian Israelite Club, a Jewish institution attended by Jews and non-Jews and whose doors…
(JTA) — Three Los Angeles synagogue locations were temporarily closed after receiving bomb threats on Shabbat. The threats were reported in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal on Saturday. The affected synagogues were the University Synagogue in Brentwood, and both campuses of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple – the Erika J. Glazer Family Campus in Wilshire Center/Koreatown…
Bill Maher ripped Jared Kushner as an “undeserving schmuck” who has no business running a major company — let alone the White House. The comic, who may be seeking to deflect attention from his own “n-word” drama, mocked the presidential son-in-law as a rich kid who never had to work for anything in his life….
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara won a libel suit on Sunday against an Israeli journalist who claimed that she once kicked her husband out of their car during an argument. A Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court ordered Igal Sarna to pay the couple some $32,500 in damages over what it said was his…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett has proposed a code of ethics that would prohibit lecturers from expressing political opinions at work and from calling for an academic boycott of Israel. Bennett defended the proposed code on Sunday, ahead of the weekly Cabinet meeting, according to reports. “We are taking action to prevent…
Israel filed an official protest against Hamas at the United Nations Security Council after a terrorist tunnel was discovered under two United Nations schools in Gaza. Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon submitted the letter of protest to the United Nations Security Council, as well as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The tunnel, first…
(JTA) — A car that rammed into pedestrians outside Amsterdam Centraal train station has injured three Israelis. Amsterdam Police say that the incident on Saturday night was not terror-related, rather that the driver became sick at the wheel and lost control. He rammed into a crowd of people and then a wall before stopping, The…
Tens of thousands of rainbow flag-toting revelers attended the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parade in Tel Aviv on Friday, billed as the largest of its kind in the deeply conservative Middle East. The annual parade featured floats with blaring sound systems and gyrating dancers. Revelers could be seen dancing on the balconies of surrounding…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for the dismantling of the U.N. agency that aids millions of Palestinian refugees, accusing it of anti-Israeli incitement. Adnan Abu Hasna, a Gaza-based spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said Netanyahu was pursuing a “fantasy.” The United States, Israel’s main ally, was the…
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