A&E canceled its highly controversial docu-series surrounding the Ku Klux Klan, which was set to premiere in January, the network said in a statement Saturday. Officials from the network said the show was scrapped after producers discovered members of the Ku Klux Klan were paid for access into the organization, reports said. “Our goal with […]
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAA JetBlue passenger who was kicked off a flight last week for harassing Ivanka Trump has inspired a backlash from Trump fans who now are giving his book bad reviews on Amazon. Matthew Lasner, a Hunter College professor, has seen his Amazon page peppered with one-star reviews and wry comments on his book, “High Life:
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USAGeorge Michael, the English singer-songwriter who shot to stardom in the 1980s as half of the pop duo Wham! and went on to become one of the era’s biggest pop solo artists with hits such as “Faith” and “I Want Your Sex,” died over the Christmas holiday. He was 53. Michael died peacefully at his
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsAfter students photographed wearing swastikas, Cheng Hsiao-ming says he’ll leave post early, devote career to educating about important historical events By Stuart Winer High school students in Taiwan dressed as Nazi soldiers during a celebration on December 24, 2016. Pictures from the event were posted online by Facebook user Pixar Lu. (Facebook) The principal of
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Wake up! President Obama showed his true colors last week when he instructed US Ambassador Samantha Power to abstain on a Security Council resolution indicting Israel for building houses for Jews in the Jewish homeland, including in Jerusalem, the Jewish capital for 3,000 years. (Even the Western Wall
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International, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — The recent UN resolution 2334 will go down in Jewish history as one of the seemingly interminable attempts to destroy the Jews. That the United States should be complicit in the establishment of the resolution, as many people think, is disgraceful. Just as disgraceful is the fact that the
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International, Lloyd Levy, Middle East, USAIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the time to wish his “Christian brothers and sisters” a merry Christmas in a video posted to Facebook on Thursday. He addressed Christians from the courtyard of Jerusalem’s International Christian Embassy and expressed a bond between Christianity and Judaism through a “shared heritage.” “It moves us deeply to have
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’m among those who believe that the Jewish settlements on the West Bank constitute a great, perhaps the greatest, danger to Israel. I also believe that accommodation could be made to enable a Palestinian state to have its capital in parts of the city it may call Jerusalem. Yet,
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International, Middle East, USAIslamabad apparently responding to a fake news article, gets Israel defense minister wrong By Times of Israel staff Truck-mounted Missiles on display at the IDEAS 2008 defense exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan. (Wiki Creative Commons/SyedNaqvi90) Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif tweeted a veiled nuclear threat at Israel, apparently after taking affront at a fake news
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International, Middle EastFour days after killing 12 people in Berlin, Anis Amri was shot dead by police in Milan on Friday morning. He was stopped by two police officers in the early hours of Friday morning, near a train station. Amri shot and wounded one officer, before being shot dead by a second policeman. It is understood
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International, Middle EastJason Greenblatt, who with David Friedman made up Israel Advisory Committee, to handle diplomatic talks, with focus on Israeli-Palestinian conflict By Times of Israel staff Jason Dov Greenblatt, Donald Trump’s top real estate lawyer and an Orthodox Jew, is one of three members on the Republican nominee’s Israel Advisory Committee. (JTA/Uriel Heilman) President-elect Donald Trump
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON—The Obama administration portrayed its decision to allow the United Nations to condemn Israeli settlement-building as a way to finally and emphatically demand a stop to the activity. But the move may backfire by hardening positions, both in the right-wing Israeli government and in the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump has already signaled his
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International, Middle East, USAThis article originally appeared on The Motley Fool. If Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t planning to give away 99 percent of his family’s Facebook shares before he dies, I bet he’d be a trillionaire at some point in his life. For now, though, he’ll have to settle for a net worth of $51.7 billion, according to Bloomberg’s
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International, USATributes are being paid to Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt who has died in Spain at the age of 68. A statement from his manager said the veteran British rocker died in hospital in Marbella “as a result of a severe infection, having been admitted to hospital on Thursday evening following complications to a shoulder
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