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Netflix defends Dave Chappelle’s comedy special featuring ‘Space Jews’ joke
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the streaming service will not remove Dave Chappelle’s new comedy special “The Closer,” which has faced a backlash for featuring controversial comments, including an anti-Semitic joke.
After “The Closer” premiered...
At trilateral summit, Lapid places focus on finding alternative plan on Iran, hints at...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid took part in a historic trilateral meeting with fellow Abraham Accords members on Wednesday, discussing a range of issues with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and United Arab...
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem helps bring 105 youths to Israel
Israel is marking its annual Yom HaAliyah (“Aliyah Day”) with an entire week of incoming flights filled with new Jewish immigrants with the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) actively involved in this effort by sponsoring flights...
Bnei Menashe group of 235 from India lands at Ben-Gurion on Yom HaAliyah
A total of 235 new immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community in India landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Wednesday as part of the Yom HaAliyah national celebration on Oct. 12-13.
Hailing from Manipur in...
Remember the Battle of Lepanto
Last week, Oct. 7 to be precise, was the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto. Why should you give a flying fig? Because it was a pivotal clash in a war that has...
BDS proves once again that it’s all about the anti-Semitism
Irish novelist Sally Rooney thinks that she’s an advocate for human rights, and that prejudice and hate have nothing to do with her work or her various political stands. As far as Ben Cohen...
Amazon pockets royalties from book by far-right leader who questions Holocaust
Amazon is making up to 85 percent profit on sales of a book by the leader of a British far-right group who wrote about the “alleged extermination of 6 million Jews” in the Holocaust,...
BBC changes label calling French army captain Dreyfus ‘notorious Jewish spy’
The BBC changed the description of a new French period crime drama that identified Alfred Dreyfus, an army captain falsely convicted of treason, as a “notorious Jewish spy.”
The broadcaster edited the written synopsis of the BBC Four program...
Bennett plans to meet with Putin in Russia, in part to discuss Iran aggression
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is slated to travel on Oct. 22 to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time, the prime minister’s office announced on Twitter on Tuesday.
The two leaders...
Israeli president calls on all countries to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday called on the world to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
Addressing the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Anti-Semitism, he said that the...