Just a day after five women came out accusing him of sexual misconduct in the New York Times, Louis C.K. has issued a statement admitting that all of the women’s accusations are true. Five female comedy writers and performers — four of whom went on the record — stated that C.K. had masturbated in front […]
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAfter the outrage that currently exists in the United States and the rest of the world for all the accusations of sexual misconduct against woman, Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, opened up and shared the allegations he had to deny fifteen years ago. “I’ve been accused of harassment and I can tell you
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.” (Gen 1:27 JPS Tanakh) And then there are those who don’t quite fit the mold…. I recently sat down with Tim West, the Cygnet Theatre’s Director of Community
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The Skeptic and the Rabbi: Falling in Love with Faith by Judy Gruen, She Writes Press, © 2017; ISBN 978-1-63152-302-1; 219 pages, $16.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Author Judy Gruen grew up in a more-or-less Conservative Jewish home, but after falling in love with Jeff, who was embarked upon a journey toward
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionMax Lanman knew that a description on Craigslist would not do his girlfriend’s 1996 Honda Accord justice. So instead of making a boring ol’ internet ad, he filmed his own car commercial for the automobile – and it is hilarious. The cheeky minute-long video is shot in almost the exact same style as typical modern
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA[youtube:2034872] Actor, rapper, and film producer Will Smith was spotted at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem Thursday, in an unpublicized trip to the Holy Land. The 49-year-old star of the Men In Black film series, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Enemy of the State, and I Am Legend among others, made
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEllen Social media exploded Wednesday evening as Ellen DeGeneres’ wife Portia de Rossi went public with a story about action movie star and director Steven Seagal. RELATED: Jane Fonda’s controversial statement about Harvey Weinstein’s victims De Rossi tweeted that during a final audition for a Seagal movie she was approached with a lewd advance, saying
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy TOI staff and Jessica Steinberg After staging a sassy performance in Tel Aviv for his Israeli fans on Tuesday night, Boy George on Wednesday pushed back against online criticism by Israel boycott activists, rejecting comparisons between the Jewish state and South Africa in the apartheid era. “So George are you saying you would have
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsCountless pairs of eyes have gazed at Vincent van Gogh’s “Olive Trees” and not seen it. Yet, it’s been right there in the foreground, embedded in the paint, for 128 years. A grasshopper. Well, part of one. It’s missing its thorax and abdomen, but it’s definitely a real grasshopper. “Van Gogh worked outside in the
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsLeonard Cohen’s songs strived for the universal and his voice was often solemn, yet the courtly songwriter had plentiful moments of joy and deadpan humor. One year after Cohen died at age 82, an array of artists testified to his far-reaching impact with a concert Monday evening whose somber yet graceful tone befitted the celebrated
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsNested under a dome with geometric arabesque patterns and appearing to float on water, the Louvre Abu Dhabi is now home to Matisse, Mondrian — and George Washington. The abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko hangs a few steps away from Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and a portrait of George Washington in
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsA French court on Tuesday ordered the return of a painting by impressionist master Camille Pissarro to the family of a Jewish art collector dispossessed during World War II. The court ruled in favour of the relatives of Simon Bauer, a wealthy businessman whose assets were seized in 1943 by the anti-Semitic wartime French government
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International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBONN, Germany – Some 250 art works that a reclusive collector hid from the world for decades, including pieces likely looted from Jewish owners under Nazi rule, are on show at a German museum. The paintings being shown starting from Thursday at Bonn’s Bundeskunsthalle – including works by Albrecht Duerer, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro
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International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIt’s Anne Frank—without the Jews or the Nazis! A Dutch production of a new take on the diary-writing young girl will open amid criticism from Jewish groups this week for erasing the Frank family’s Jewish identity and failing to mention the Nazis who killed Anne and her sister in a concentration camp. Frank, of course,
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