TEL AVIV (JTA) — Adrian Grenier, best known as the star of HBO’s “Entourage,” returned to TV this week. In a Passover commercial for an Israeli gift card company, the actor clips on a white satin yarmulke and nails the guttural pronunciation of the holiday’s Hebrew name, Pesach. He then proceeds to dispense terrible gifts — including a rock replica, an ashtray…
Mark Cuban is at it again, put his finger in the eye of President Trump, by taunting him about Americans’ student debt on Twitter. .@realDonaldTrump when will you address the exploding cost of college and the problem of student debt ? — Mark Cuban (@mcuban) March 29, 2017 Cuban’s Tweet comes as educators and administrators…
California Senator Dianne Feinstein laced into Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, after she said a decision by the Israeli cabinet to approve the creation of a new West Bank settlement proved the government was not serious about peace. The announcement, the Jewish Democrat wrote in a statement, “demonstrates once again Netanyahu’s not serious…
Israel’s high court on Thursday ruled unanimously against an effort from Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef to retroactively cancel the divorce of a woman from her coma-stricken husband. “It is unacceptable that a divorce given by a rabbinical court, equivalent to a ruling in a civil court, can be retroactively annulled,” wrote the judges in their…
Among recent additions to the popular website Dicionary.com is the term “alt-right,” which catapulted into public consciousness in the last year or so, particularly during the fraught election season. Scholars, journalists and activists have struggled to pin down exactly what the term means — and it’s origins are even unclear. While white nationalist, or “Identitarian,”…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday a Budapest university founded by financier George Soros had “cheated” in awarding its diplomas and violated Hungarian laws. Orban, outspoken critic of liberal civil organizations funded by Soros, said the Central European University’s fate depended now on talks between Hungary and the United States. The U.S. State…
(JTA) — An online fundraiser for the wife of a Jewish cancer patient who died this month after his search for a bone marrow donor captured the attention of social media and celebrities has raised over $130,000 in three days. Adam Krief died March 14 following complications after receiving a bone marrow transplant. He was 32….
(JTA) – A Jewish cemetery in France saw 80 percent of its tombstones smashed by unidentified perpetrators. A passerby noticed the devastation earlier this week at the disused, 18th-century Jewish cemetery of Waldwisse, a village situated 215 miles east of Paris, the France3 television channel reported yesterday. The attack – the second one since 2014…
The backstreets of Ramallah are a long way from Silicon Valley, but a niche venture capital fund is trying to narrow the gap with a focus on early-stage Palestinian tech startups. Sadara Ventures is making gradual inroads in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory long occupied by Israel, financing six companies so far. Launched in…
MONTREAL (JTA) — Montreal’s first Jewish mayor was handed a one-year prison term and two years probation following his January conviction on eight counts of corruption, breach of trust, and fraud. “I can guarantee you and my family that I will be a better person when I come out,” Michael Applebaum said in provincial court…
(JTA) — A top Brooklyn rabbi denounced as “blood libel” a new city policy to bar mohels from carrying out a controversial circumcision rite if babies they treat become infected with herpes. Rabbi Levi Y. Heber said the new policy “is what some would call a witch hunt or a modern-day blood libel,” The Jewish…
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