John Catsimatidis on Anthony Cumia: ‘He says anything antisemitic, he’s off the network’

John Catsimatidis, the owner of New York conservative talk radio stronghold WABC, has vowed to fire his newest star, Anthony Cumia, if he says anything antisemitic on air. Catsimatidis, a billionaire supermarket mogul and former Republican candidate for mayor, made the pledge in response to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article about Cumia’s history of antisemitic […]

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Israeli officials are criticizing Oscar-winner “No Other Land.” So are Palestinian activists.

The BDS movement and Israel’s right-wing culture minister agree on one thing: “No Other Land,” the Israeli-Palestinian documentary that just won the Oscar for best documentary, is anathema. One says the movie is a smear on Israel. The other says it subtly works to perpetuate Israeli crimes. And those two campaigns against the film have […]

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In new Passover children’s books include a mystery, Obama’s White House seder and a graphic novel from writer Dara Horn

An endless Passover seder takes center stage in “One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe,” by writer Dara Horn and illustrator Theo Ellsworth, award-winners who teamed up for a humor-filled, time-travel graphic novel for young people. The tale of an epic seder — it drags on for six months — joins a new crop of children’s […]

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‘No Other Land,’ about Israeli demolition of Palestinian village, wins Oscar for best documentary

“No Other Land,” which chronicles Israel’s demolitions in the Palestinian West Bank village of Masafer Yatta, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature. Taking the stage at the Oscars on Sunday night, two of the film’s four co-directors — an Israeli and a Palestinian — used their acceptance speeches to call for Palestinian rights […]

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