Actor Charlie Sheen is demanding an apology from the Anti-Defamation League for saying that his rant against the executive producer of his hit TV sitcom was \”borderline anti-Semitism.\” A letter from Sheen\’s attorney Marty Singer demands a retraction because, it says, Sheen\’s only intention was to \”address the man rather than his television persona,\” the TMZ website reported Tuesday.
The 22 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire buried by the Hebrew Free Burial Association were remembered in a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of their deaths. The ceremony, conducted Tuesday by the association at a cemetery on Staten Island, N.Y., came on the yahrzeit of Adar 25 according to the Hebrew calendar. It included Kaddish over the graves, the El Moleh Rachamim prayer and the reading of the victims\’ names.
One day after an Oscar went to the 40-minute documentary “Strangers No More,” about the Bialik-Rogozin School in south Tel Aviv and its undocumented students from 48 countries across the Third World — a 12-year-old girl named Esther who stars in the movie is facing probable deportation from Israel, along with an estimated 120 of the 800 pupils in the school.
Matisyahu performs every year at Jewlicious, the three-day Jewish learning and music weekend that takes place at the Alpert Jewish Community Center in Long Beach and this year drew some 900 college students and young professionals. A friend to JConnect, which organizes the event with Beach Hillel, the Chassidic reggae star has a habit of drawing his audience into his feverish musical frenzy. He did so again this year, but this time, due to snow, he was stuck in a hotel in Canada, while his guitarist was on stage at the Long Beach JCC. Didn’t matter — he Skyped in his performance.
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