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“The rapper may have a First Amendment right to traffic in Jew-hatred, but he does not have the right to peddle his poison on stage in front of tens of thousands of concertgoers,” the Israeli-American Council told JNS.
The SHOOQ network aims to link Jewish storytellers with investors keen to bring their creations to fruition.
This year’s event in Israel’s capital will host internationally acclaimed artists Yehudit Sasportas, Belu-Simion Fainaru and Hanita Ilan.
“Judaism and fashion are completely interwoven from the streets of Seventh Avenue in New York City to the streets of Tel Aviv,” Tobi Rubinstein, an event co-host, told JNS.
“I went to the Nova exhibit,” the British musical artist told the audience about his inspiration for the song. “So it was like walking into my world.”
“I am so excited to share these treasures with the public, as they have not been seen in 100 years,” Sharon Liberman Mintz, international Sotheby’s senior Judaica specialist, told JNS.
A PR firm hired by the Israeli promoter drafted and attributed to the U.S. actor comments he neither made nor approved.
“During this moment of spiking antisemitism, Jews can take a measure of comfort in recalling to ourselves and to all Americans how Hebraic ideas have helped shape American political language,” Rabbi Stu Halpern, of Yeshiva University, told JNS.
The Israeli-American Council launched a petition demanding that concert organizers remove the rapper from the tour after his on-stage calls to “Free Palestine.”
Actor and co-creator of the series shared the difficulties in filming abroad in the wake of the Hamas-led massacre and rising antisemitism.
“From the beginning, I have told them that I strongly disagreed with this decision, and at this rising time of antisemitism, it had served as a gut punch to the Jewish community,” the speaker of the New York City Council said.
The film was also nixed by both of Australia’s national public broadcasters.
