Gordon Davidson, a Brooklyn-born director and producer who played a key role in transforming Los Angeles from a perceived theatrical backwater into a creative center for innovative and controversial plays, has died Davidson died Sunday after collapsing at dinner in his Santa Monica, California, home. He was 83. As the founder of the Mark Taper…
— The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is providing aid to Haiti after a hurricane caused widespread damage in the Caribbean country. The Jewish humanitarian group, partnering with the on-the-ground relief organization Heart to Heart International, is focusing on providing medical aid and serving the basic needs of those affected by Hurricane Matthew, according to a…
— The Supreme Court’s three Jewish justices missed the start of the new term due to Rosh Hashanah. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan were not present on the opening day on Monday. Federal law requires the court to open on the first Monday in October. The session lasted only about five minutes…
JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces reportedly intercepted a boat attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. The Women’s Boat to Gaza, with 13 female passengers, was intercepted Wednesday afternoon less than 50 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, according to reports based on social media. Organizers had lost contact with the boat…
The forces influencing the U.S. presidential election favor Republican nominee Donald Trump to win the popular vote – but even proven prediction models face “the most difficult election by far to predict accurately,” a political forecaster with a three-decade winning streak said on Wednesday. History Professor Allan Lichtman of American University in Washington has accurately…
Charles, Prince of Wales, visited in secret the grave of his grandmother on the Mount of Olives in eastern Jerusalem. The prince was in Israel on Friday for the funeral of Shimon Peres. Charles’ paternal grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is interred in the Church of Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives. She died…
Ira Goldberg was born in 1948, but he is apparently far from retirement — and knows a thing or two about luxe style. The 68-year-old serial burglar was arrested last month for stealing $30,000 worth of photo equipment from a gallery and 13 Marc Jacobs handbags worth another $5,000, according to Manhattan prosecutors. The story…
Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding at least one person, witnesses said, after a rocket fired from the enclave hit an Israeli border town. Israeli police said there were no casualties in the rocket strike on Sderot, but Israel has a declared policy of responding militarily to any…
— A British Labour Party activist who once accused Jews of financing slavery was suspended from her party for bemoaning Jews’ centrality at Holocaust commemorations. The Oct. 1 suspension of Jackie Walker over comments about the Holocaust follows the publication last month of a video showing her speaking about the issue at a public meeting about anti-Semitism, where she…
Actor and comedian Ben Stiller revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago. Due to early detection Stiller, 50, was able to undergo treatment for the disease and has been cancer-free since, he said in an interview on for SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday. He published an essay about his…
– The international soccer governing body FIFA slapped a more than $30,000 fine on Italy’s national soccer team for the anti-Semitic behavior of some of its fans at a match in Haifa. FIFA fined the Italian team 30,000 Swiss Francs, or about $31,000, for the “improper and discriminatory” behavior of team Italy fans who gave the fascist…
