I’ve had discrimination or harassment on almost everything I’ve ever worked on in some way,” Natalie Portman said during a Vulture panel this week. The world-famous actress noted that like all women, she is scared while walking down the street at night. Stars: They’re just like us. The actress said that she wasn’t aware until…
A woman accused Senator Al Franken of touching her inappropriately while she took a picture with him at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010, CNN reported. The woman, Lindsay Menz, 33, of Texas, says Franken grabbed her butt cheek while her husband took the picture of her and Franken. Menz’s husband, father and mother all…
A rabbi at one of the largest synagogues in the United Kingdom came forward last week with details of sexual harassment that she and female rabbinic colleagues had received from their own congregants, urging the community to pay closer attention to the issue. Rabbi Hannah Kingston of North Western Reform Synagogue in London said in…
Working as a conservative writer, I’ve noticed a certain kind of individual over the years. This type is an unmarried activist -– male or female — past the mid-30s who has spent his or her entire career loudly decrying the danger “the gays” pose to our society. When I come across this type on Twitter…
Larry David is no stranger to flirting with the limits of good taste. But the comic’s monologue on ‘Saturday Night Live’ caused many to accuse him of stepping over that line, with jokes about romance in concentration camps and the fact that so many of those accused of sexual harassment in Hollywood are Jewish. He…
The recent, long overdue accountability of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment of women, and the #metoo speakout on social media, has reignited questions and concerns about power, complicity and abuse. When people envision a typical caricature of an abusive partner, often it is assumed that an abuser is a stereotypical politically conservative heterosexual male…
When Donald Trump began his ascent toward Republican leadership, Leon Wieseltier offered an antidote. “The only proper response to his success is shame, anger and resistance,” the Jewish intellectual told The Washington Post. “We must not accustom ourselves to this. Trump is not a new normal.” Now Wieseltier, at the center of a multiple allegations…
Mark Halperin, veteran journalist and political analyst for MSNBC and Bloomberg TV is leaving MSNBC after being accused by five women of sexual harassment, CNN reported. MSNBC announced early Thursday that Halperin — who frequently appears on their program “Morning Joe” — was leaving the network. “During this period, I did pursue relationships with women…
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