Published by PopCrush Potterheads were treated with the first photo from the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts set. On Wednesday (Dec. 8), HBO Max unveiled a photo of the three main stars, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who were sitting in what appears to be the Gryffindor common room. According to […]
Published by BANG Showbiz English Emily Ratajkowski never wanted modelling to be her only career. The 30-year-old star – who has recently turned her hand to writing by penning a collection of essays – admitted that she fell into modelling while trying to fund an art career. She said: “It wasn’t until the book was
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Published by AFP New York (AFP) – New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday it was stripping the Sackler name from several exhibition wings, amid ongoing controversy over the billionaire family’s alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis. The Sackler name will be removed from seven exhibitions, among them the wing housing the Temple
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Dan Baer, who has served as director of Camp Mountain Chai over the last six years, has announced his resignation to take a job as director of Camp Seneca Lake in Rochester, New York. Rachel Shyloski, the associate camp director, will serve as interim director pending a search to fill out the camp team, it was announced Thursday, Dec. 9, by David Bark, the board president, and Buddy Voit, executive director. [Camp Mountain Chai]
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As the end of the year nears, the studios and streaming services release movies they hope will be nominated for Oscars and other film awards. Here’s a list of some of the leading contenders. [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Sacha Baron-Cohen and Isla Fisher have celebrated 20 years together as a couple. The pair first met at a party in Sydney, Australia, in 2001, and after falling in love they married in March 2010 and now have three children together: Olive, 13, Elula, 10, and Montgomery, five. To mark
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Published by DPA Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrived in Egypt on Thursday to discuss boosting ties between the two countries with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi, as well as reviewing a months-long ceasefire in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, officials said. Egypt, which became the first Arab country to establish diplomatic ties with Israel, in 1979,
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Middle East
The pomegranate pendant of the title was fashioned in gold as a wedding gift for Mazal, a fourteen-year-old Yemenite girl who is the narrator of the book. The events she recounts begin in the capital of Yemen, Sana’a, in the modest home where she lives with her parents and siblings. Her father, a skilled artisan who fashions the intricate filigree jewelry that is produced by many of Yemen’s Jews, informs his daughter that his apprentice, Ezra, has asked for her hand in marriage, and that he, her father, had given his approval. The pendant was made by Ezra, as a gift for his bride. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Published by uPolitics.com Former United States Rep. Max Rose (D-New York) announced that he will challenge incumbent Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-New York) in next year’s midterm election, setting up an ideological showdown in a rare conservative New York City congressional district that includes the southwestern tip of Brooklyn as well as all of Staten Island,
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Published by Reuters By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to hear a case against Harvard University challenging the ability of it and other schools to consider race as a factor in student admissions to boost diversity. The justices in June asked
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Science, Medicine, & Education
Published by Reuters By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Israeli defense chiefs are expected on Thursday to discuss possible military exercises that would prepare for a worst-case scenario to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities should diplomacy fail and if their nations’ leaders request it, a senior U.S. official told Reuters. The scheduled U.S. talks
Dr. Robert Penner, 91, has done a lot of things in his life. He was an ophthalmologist with a private practice in Chula Vista; a colonel in the Army Reserve; president of the San Diego County Medical Society and of the San Diego County Eye Bank; and chairman of the San Diego Port Commission, among other distinctions. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Steven Spielberg says ‘West Side Story’ has “permeated” his life since he was a child. The legendary filmmaker – who has worked on his own big screen adaptation of the 1957 Jerome Robbins musical starring Rachel Zeigler, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose and Rita Moreno, who played Anita in the original
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Published by Reuters By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared ready to further expand public funding of religiously based entities, indicating sympathy toward a challenge by two Christian families to a Maine tuition assistance program that excludes private schools that promote religious beliefs. The court heard nearly two hours
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