Published by BANG Showbiz English Zoe Kravitz has lost track of how many tattoos she has. The 32-year-old actress was reported to have as many as 56 inkings across her body, but she can neither confirm nor deny the total number because she no longer knows how many she actually has. Zoe said she sees […]
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Jewish Celebrities
Published by Kyodo News Japanese and Israeli startups recently agreed to cooperate on an experimental project to generate oxygen on the Moon, a potential technology that could make possible long-term lunar missions independent of Earth in the future. Under the project, Israel’s Helios Project Ltd. will undertake demonstration tests to extract oxygen by melting lunar
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International
Published by BANG Showbiz English Andy Cohen looks for “good stepfather” qualities in anyone he dates. The 53-year-old radio and television host became a father to two-year-old son Benjamin Allen in 2019, and has said being a dad has completely changed the way he views dating, as he now wants to make sure his future
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Jewish Celebrities
Published by The Seattle Times SEATTLE — Every once in a while, a Tweetstorm speaks volumes. And in the wake of the latest Team USA women’s basketball Olympic gold medal over the weekend, there was one that caught my eye, detailing the astonishing list of championships earned by Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart over the
Published by AFP Los Angeles (AFP) – “The Big Bang Theory” actress Mayim Bialik has been named as one of two new hosts of the long-running US television game show “Jeopardy!”, replacing the award-winning presenter Alex Trebek, who died of cancer last year. Bialik will share hosting duties with the show’s executive producer Mike Richards,
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Jewish Celebrities
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Cori Bush, after serving seven months in Congress, now rates comparison to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What follows is no compliment. When Walter F. George campaigned for his fourth full term in the U.S. Senate, Roosevelt journeyed to Georgia in 1938 to stump for one of George’s rivals in the
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA
SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) — Jews of Color in the United States yearn for and at times feel a sense of belonging in the Jewish community, but also experience discrimination and tokenization and feel forced to conform to expectations or norms of the majority white Jewish population, says a new report released today from the
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) — Hundreds of Holocaust survivors and their descendants today urged members of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus to vote against AB 101, a bill mandating an ethnic studies high school graduation requirement. “We are Holocaust survivors and the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, who are deeply alarmed by AB
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USA
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — In 1953, the brilliant scholar Dr. Theodor H. Gaster published Festivals of the Jewish Year: A Modern Interpretation and Guide. It was updated in 1961. It is about the Jewish festivals and the Sabbath, their description, origin, and comparison to other ancient festivals. In six chapters
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — “You’re very brave to travel abroad in these times,” we were told by various friends and acquaintances, both at home and abroad, when referring to our recent trip to France. The underlying message was that we were being foolish to risk our health by boarding a plane and
By Abigail Klein Leichman (Israel21c via JNS) On Aug. 13, 2020, an extraordinary event transformed the Middle East: Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a joint statement of intent to normalize diplomatic relations. Formalized at the White House in September, the historic Abraham Accords opened wide a door that seemed hopelessly shut between the two countries. True, discreet
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Middle East
(JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States is “deeply concerned” by legislation passed by the Polish parliament earlier in the day barring Holocaust survivors and their descendants from reclaiming property seized by the country’s communist regime. Blinken called on Polish President Andrzej Duda not to sign the bill
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International, USA
(JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday announced a national plan to fight crime in the country’s Arab sector. Referring to out-of-control violence in the streets of Arab-majority towns and villages, Bennett said, “my government is determined to take action and wage an unceasing, constant and persistent fight, with full force, against crime and
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Middle East
By Shayna Kaufmann, PhD SAN DIEGO — Four years ago, my now 20-year-old daughter Tara declared (not asked) that she was postponing college to do a gap year in Europe. She intended to work as an au pair in France in order to speak French, expand her horizons and have a culturally immersive experience. I
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Lifestyles, Shayna Kaufmann