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  • Barbra Streisand criticizes womens discriminatory treatment in Israel

    Barbra Streisand has spoken about the Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. The 71-year-old actress took aim at cases of ultra-Orthodox Jews targeting women while speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday. The star, who herself was born in a Jewish family, said that it was distressing that women in Israel were forced to sit at the back of the bus, CBS News ...

  • Michelle Obama daughters visit Holocaust Memorial

    US first lady Michelle Obama visits the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin on June 19, 2013. Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, on Wednesday visited Berlin's Holocaust Memorial as part of a tour of key sites of Germany's troubled Nazi and Cold War ...

  • Broadway Musicals A Jewish Legacy

    Originally aired on PBS, the documentary Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy explores the storied connection of the two halves of its title, asking the question, "Why were so many famous American composers in musical theatre also Jews?" The Gershwins, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim--just about everyone but Cole Porter was Jewish. ...

  • Deli Days Becomes the Idaho Jewish Cultural Festival

    Idaho Jewish Cultural Festival Events: Jewish Dinner Theater--Millie and the Mentshn perform Heavy Mettle: From Shtetl to Tin Pan Alley, with a buffet dinner followed by Klezmer music and dancing. Wednesday, June 19, 6 p.m., $35. Sapphire Room, Riverside Hotel. 2900 W. Chinden ...

  • VIDEO - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a years-long spat with the United States over thousands of Jewish religious writings should end now that ...

    jn1.tv "For the Jewish people, Russia has been a homeland for centuries, as it remains so today," Putin said while visiting the museum to launch its latest exhibition. "I hope that moving the Schneerson library to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center...will put an end to this problem once and for all," said the former KGB spy, who has sought to celebrate Russia as country ...

Movie Review

Sorority Boys

Sorority Boys is a dumb comedy that takes a silly ideathree guys, thrown out of their cherished fraternity house after being accused of stealing party funds, disguise themselves as girls and join a sororityand makes it utterly inane. Full of witless jokes, dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios, and saddled with a general air of misogyny and emotional sadism t ... ...

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  • Une grande fresque romanesque sur les Juifs du Maroc

    Ralph Toledano Ralph Toledano est l’auteur d’une magnifique fresque romanesque sur les Juifs du Maroc des annees 70, Un prince a Casablanca, qui vient de paraître aux Éditions de la Grande Ourse. Un roman très captivant, ecrit avec un style elegant et raffine, qui relate un episode très marquant de l’Histoire contemporaine du Maroc: la sanglante ...

  • AIPAC urges caution on Rohani

    US Senate unfazed on sanctions after Rohani win "More fundamentally," the memo continued, "there is no indication that Supreme Leader Khamenei will limit his absolute control over Iran's nuclear policy. Even if Rouhani wished to change the country's policy, he may have no ability to do so."Pointing to a speech Rowhani gave in March 2006, in which he spoke of ...

  • VIDEO – The Anti-Defamation League has called out the “raw full-throated and unadulterated anti-Semitism” in a Facebook posting by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali ...

    Jewish group blasts Facebook post by Iranian supreme leader on eve of presidential elections, featuring 'a visual representation of the classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of Jewish control of the United States ...

  • ADL Alice Walker conveys fervently anti-Jewish ideas in new book

    Like many of us active in the civil rights movement of the 1960's, Alice Walker felt a great sense of hope and solidarity with the young state of Israel. But we have been disillusioned. Whether you call it Fascism, Jim Crow, Apartheid, Manifest Destiny, White Man's Burden or Zionism, these names all describe the same racist principle - that one people is superior with full rights ...

  • Israel wary of Iran’s new president

    The world shouldn't expect a change from Iran because it has elected a self-declared moderate as president, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed. Reacting to the Islamic Republic's choice of Hassan Rowhani, who has said that he will follow a "path of moderation", Netanyahu said: "It must be remembered that the Iranian ruler, at the outset, ...

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