This is no witchcraft: residents of Salem, Massachusetts discovered colorful decorations in their town’s iconic bandstand, one day after the monument was vandalized with a blue swastika. The offensive graffiti, sprayed painted last week by two teenagers caught on security cameras, has since been removed. One of the signs hung in the bandstand reads “Shalom…
Lena Dunham interviewed Samantha Bee for The Hollywood Reporter this week, and the two fiercely funny, politically engaged women tackled everything from “Full Frontal” to President Trump. Bee, however, came up short when Dunham asked about how private citizens can use their voices during the current political administration. “I have no idea,” the comedian said….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Prison Service for the first time granted a same-sex conjugal visit for a prisoner. The decision reportedly was made Tuesday, though the Hebrew-language Walla news website reported that the visit took place a day earlier. Zaor Hankishayev took the Israel Prison Service to court two years ago in order to…
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Universal Cable Productions, a subsidiary of media conglomerate NBCUniversal, is suing an insurance company for millions of dollars in a case that hinges on whether Operation Protective Edge, the 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas, was a “war” or merely “terrorism.” The Universal-owned USA Network was filming a show in Israel in the summer of…
Movie director Jonathan Demme, best known for “The Silence of the Lambs” has died at the age of 73, his publicist said on Wednesday. Demme, who also directed the Oscar winning film “Philadelphia” was suffering from esophageal cancer, publicist Annalee Paulo said in a statement. She said he died in New York on Wednesday morning…
Walking around the ruins of ancient Rome, one gets the sense it was a drab place filled with bland white stone. But using state-of-the-art technology, archaeologists Steven Fine, Donald Sanders and Peter Schertz have produced a rendering of what the infamous Arch of Titus – a monument to Rome’s 70 A.D. victory over the Jews…
Get ready to have the time of your life…again. On May 24th, a “Dirty Dancing” reboot is making its way to ABC, complete with a star-studded cast, red hot moves and so much 80’s stretch pants. Abigail Breslin will be stepping into Jennifer Grey’s dancing shoes as Baby Houseman, Debra Messing as her mother Marjorie,…
Muslim-American political activist Linda Sarsour has been selected to deliver the commencement address at the City University of New York’s School of Public Health, drawing criticism from some Jewish leaders. Sarsour, who is scheduled to speak at CUNY on June 1, was one of the organizers of the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. in January,…
Israel and the White House are in preliminary discussions about a visit to Israel by U.S. President Donald Trump as early as next month, an Israeli government official said on Wednesday. A Trump visit would mark an early personal engagement by the new Republican president in efforts to resolve the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli Prime…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti is the top hate crime found on New York City subways so far this year. Some 22 of 31 hate crimes that took place on the subway this year targeted Jews, the New York Police Department’s Transit Bureau said Tuesday in a report to the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the New York…
