Israel’s Government Advertising Agency announced that it will stop censoring Haredi women in photos, following protests by feminist groups, YNet News reported. The Ministry of Social Equality launched an Israeli photo database in December 2017 that sought to represent different cultures in government publications, offering pictures of Israeli families by sector: Jewish, Arab and Druze….
Following an interview with Ari Shavit published in Haaretz last week, in which he referred to various women accusing him of sexual harassment and his subsequent soul-searching, another woman came forward to accuse the journalist of untoward behavior. The woman’s account, published by the independent Israeli online magazine “Hottest Place in Hell,” details a claim…
A rally honoring the one-year anniversary of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was approved for outside the White House on August 12, the Intercept reported. The National Park Service approved plans for an estimated 400 demonstrators in Washington’s Lafayette Park, who would be “protesting civil rights abuse in Charlottesville, Va / white…
A top official from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish advocacy group Agudath Israel lobbied the New York Department of Education to remove union teachers from religious schools, the New York Post reported last week. Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, representing a “a coalition of Muslim, Jewish and Christian schools,” reportedly lobbied last month to remove 244 Union Federation…
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of sexually assaulting a woman in 2006, the third criminal sex assault case brought against him. More than 70 women, mostly young actresses and women employed in other areas of the movie business, have accused the 66-year-old cofounder of the Miramax film studio of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Nigerian woman and her four children were deported from Israel on Sunday night after they spent three weeks in an Israeli prison. The case of the woman, identified as Marcy, who had been in Israel illegally since 2010, gained public attention after her children were brought to prison three weeks ago,…
Gal Gadot might really be a superhero. The Israeli actress, taking a break from filming “Wonder Woman 1984” in Virginia, visited a nearby children’s hospital in full costume. Gadot met with patients, parents and staffers at Inova Hospital in Falls Church. She even brought gifts, including toys, coloring and autographed pictures. #NEW – 06/07/18 –…
Two Washington, D.C. rabbis have filed a complaint claiming that the local government should revoke the liquor license of the Trump International Hotel because President Trump is not a person of “good character,” which the law requires. The complaint, which was filed to the district’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board last month, claims that Trump fails…
The White House’s Middle East peace negotiating team is refocusing its efforts on improving conditions in the Gaza Strip after its proposals were met with a cool reception by the Palestinian Authority, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The team of officials, led by presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, travelled to the region last month but found…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – A newly wed Israeli man was killed and his wife seriously injured in a zip-lining accident during their honeymoon in Honduras. Egael Tishman, 24, and Shif Fanken, 27 were on a zip-line over a treetop canopy near Roatan on the Honduran island of Bahia when they crashed into each other on…
(JTA) — A Jewish Syrian man was assaulted in a park in Berlin by a group of men and women who he asked for a light for his cigarette after they noticed he was wearing a Star of David. The 10 men and women ages 15 to 21 were detained in the park following the…
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