Rapper sentenced to 10 years in prison in Megan Thee Stallion shooting

Canadian rapper Tory Lanez was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison, more than seven months after he was convicted of shooting fellow musical artist Megan Thee Stallion during an argument in 2020. Judge David Herriford handed down the sentence to the 30-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, during a hearing in […]

Continue Reading

Israeli singer Noa Kirel to star at Madison Square Garden next year

Israeli pop star and Eurovision 2023 representative Noa Kirel will star at Madison Square Garden in New York in June 2024, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. Kirel’s management has reportedly been in talks with the venue for the past two months in an effort to book the prestigious arena and now an advance payment has […]

Continue Reading

International Cat Day: What do you need to know before adopting a cat?

August 8, 2023 marks the 21st annual International Cat Day, a yearly celebration of everyone’s favorite – and oft aloof and quirky – feline friends. But despite how popular cats are, not everyone knows the best ways to adopt them. Unlike humanity’s other domesticated pet of choice, the humble dog, the not-so-humble cat is known […]

Continue Reading

Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner chronicles his Jewish evolution on new song

(JTA) — Adam Weiner, leader of the rock band Low Cut Connie, says he can find inspiration in just about anything. “I could be sitting at a salad bar at a mall, and that gives me everything I need to know,” he said on a video call from a house in New Mexico, where he […]

Continue Reading

Virtual Holocaust museum to be built in Fortnite

A Holocaust museum is being built virtually inside the online video game Fortnite, numerous sources reported this week. The building will be named the Voices of the Forgotten Museum. Players entering the building with their characters will enter its virtual halls – which will contain plaques that describe the horrors Jews felt in Nazi Germany. […]

Continue Reading

US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles returns to competition ‘like a unicorn’

Simon Biles, an Olympic gold-winning gymnast from the United States, made her return to gymnastics after two years out of the competition circuit with a performance to Israeli musician Noa Kirel’s “Unicorn.” Fans at the Chicago, Illinois-based competition, the 2023 Core Hydration Classic, watched Biles make her exciting return to the sport. “Unicorn” was Israeli […]

Continue Reading

American Jew turns brother’s loss into lifesaving mission with MDA

Twenty-year-old Benny Gustafson, a Jewish college student from Wisconsin, transformed his profound grief over the loss of his brother, Jack Gustafson, into a force for positive change by volunteering with Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s eminent medical emergency service. “I’m driven to help others because my brother’s death was preventable,” Benny expressed. “I believe that […]

Continue Reading

How Barbie earwork ‘I’m Just Ken’ brings toxic masculinity to its knees

Barbie’s entire narrative builds up to, of all things, a musical number. Part power ballad, part battle sequence, and part dream ballet, “I’m Just Ken” arrives onscreen like an elaborate bit, or an excuse for Ryan Gosling to flex his Oscar-nominated vocal cords and reprise his viral dance routines. And yet it’s an absolute showstopper, […]

Continue Reading

Cardi B tweets then deletes picture of Orthodox Jews after legal triumph

Soon after Cardi B learned that police in Las Vegas would not charge her in connection with an incident at a recent concert, she turned to Wikipedia. The rapper tweeted a picture that illustrates the digital encyclopedia’s entry for “Jewish religious clothing.” The picture shows two Hasidic Orthodox Jewish men walking in Borough Park, Brooklyn. […]

Continue Reading

What was England’s mysterious cave with religious carvings used for?

Royston is a generic gray town in Hertfordshire County in England, but it turns out that for hundreds of years, no one has been able to solve its biggest mystery – the cave that hides beneath it. The cave is a sort of round room that was carved into the limestone under the streets of […]

Continue Reading