A woman bought a billboard alongside Israel’s busiest highway, printed 150,000 flyers, and has offered a $5,453 reward – all to find her lost dog. Perry, a dark brown mixed collie, was dropped off at a kennel when his owner, Raquel, left the country five weeks ago, Haaretz reported. But the day after she left,…
Lisa Bloom, the women’s rights attorney and advocate, exulted Thursday after Fox News axed top anchor Bill O’Reilly over sexual harassment charges from more than a dozen accusers – including several clients of hers. “When women speak our truth the old order shatters. We slayed the dragon. Never forget this is what we’re capable of,”…
(JTA) — Amid discussions on limiting ritual slaughter of animals in Belgium, a leader of the country’s Jewish community pleaded with lawmakers not to “repeat the Nazis’ acts.” The statement Thursday by Philippe Markiewicz, president of the Consistoire organization of Belgian Jewry that is responsible for providing religious services, was unusual because Jewish community officials rarely draw…
Mark Zuckerberg has already gotten billions to sign up for Facebook, but the tech king might have a greater ambition: reading your mind. The social media giant has now set its sights on a breakthrough that would allow people to type on their phone – with no hands, and based on signals from the brain….
It’s impossible not to fall in love with Jane Bordeaux. The Israeli band has become a wild success in their home country with their song “Eich Efshar” (“How is it possible..not to fall in love”) landing the most-played spot on Israel’s most popular radio stations last year. The gorgeous claymation music video for their song…
Political activist Noam Chomsky is leading an unlikely gaggle of Americans who are backing left-wing upstart Jean-Luc Mélenchon to become France’s new president. In a MoveOn petition launched on Tuesday, Chomsky, together with actors Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover, playwright Eve Ensler, director Oliver Stone and critical theorist Nancy Fraser, called on French voters to…
Updated. What do you do when you you indict a guy with the last name “Newman”? If you’re New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, you seize the moment to make a Seinfeld joke. Schneiderman’s office today indicted a new York man named Paul J. Newman for allegedly posing as an architect, despite having no…
Hosting two shows on CNN, asking politicians tough-as-nails questions and being present for his wife and two kids takes a lot out of reporter Jake Tapper. And that’s why he’s adopted a new diet, inspired by friend and actor Paul Rudd. “Paul’s a fellow 48-year-old Jew. This is achievable,” he told a reporter for GQ…
(JTA) — Even before the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon emerged as a serious contender for the presidency in France, the elections were shaping up to be a fateful moment for the country’s 500,000 Jews. Many of them are deeply worried about the rise in the polls of Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front…
Despite his controversial ties to allies of the Nazis, White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka has scored invitations to speak at upcoming pro-Israeli events. Gorka will address on May 7 the Jerusalem Post conference in New York, alongside top Israeli cabinet ministers including defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, justice minister Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett, Israel’s…
Cooking show star Ina Garten is synonymous with home, hospitality, and nurturing with food. So why has she never had children? The “Barefoot Contessa” star and cookbook author lives in an idyllic East Hamptons home near the beach, and her loving relationship with husband Jeffrey is the stuff of fairytales. But what kind of fairytale…
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