Kanye West Apologizes to Jewish Community in Hebrew for Anti-Semitic Rants Ahead of His Album Release

Kanye “Ye” West is offering a mea culpa. One year after issuing a series of anti-Semitic remarks, the 46-year-old rapper who goes by “Ye” has published an apology written in Hebrew on his Instagram page.  “I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions,” the statement reads, … Read more

Bradley Cooper Hosts ‘Maestro’ Screening for the Broadway Community Ahead of Netflix Release | Bradley Cooper, Gideon Glick, Maestro, Michael Urie, Miriam Shor, Scott Ellis, zachary booth | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Bradley Cooper treated the Broadway community to a special screening of his new movie Maestro, just a couple days ahead of the film’s Netflix streaming release. The Oscar-nominated actor and filmmaker was in attendance for the private screening of Maestro on Monday night (December 18) at the Whitby Hotel in New York City. Bradley was … Read more

Mining company agrees with court decision ordering Guatemala to grant property rights to community

MEXICO CITY — Solway Investment Group, a Switzerland-based mining company with interests in Guatemala, said Monday it agreed with a regional court’s decision requiring the Guatemalan government to recognize the property rights of an Indigenous community. The company, which was not a party to the case, stressed that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights decision … Read more

Ex-Jesuit’s religious community in Slovenia ordered to dissolve in one year over widespread abuse

ROME — The Vatican has decided to shut down a Slovenian-based female religious community founded by a controversial ex-Jesuit artist accused by some women of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuses. The archdiocese of Ljubljana, Slovenia said in a statement Friday that the Loyola Community would have one year to implement the Oct.20 decree ordering its … Read more

Metro Boomin Gets Key to St. Louis, Honors Late Mother with Community Event

Metro Boomin was the guest of highest honor in his St. Louis hometown on Thursday … presented with a Key to the City for his years of giving back to single mothers. TMZ Hip Hop got pics of Mayor Tishaura O. Jones bestowing the key to Metro on Thursday inside City Hall, surrounded by dozens … Read more

Kennedy Odede is Building Community Power in Kenya

Kennedy Odede remembers seeing how life’s odds were stacked against him while growing up in Kibera, Kenya’s largest urban slum, nestled within the capital city of Nairobi. “Sometimes, it’s all about where you were born,” he says. In his teenage years, Odede says he lost friends to mob violence, police killings, and suicide. But when … Read more

Italy’s Meloni urges international community not to fall into Hamas “trap”

CAIRO (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday that the international community must avoid an escalation in the war between Israel and Hamas and set a roadmap towards the two states solution. Meloni made the remarks while speaking in Egypt at the Cairo international summit for peace in the Middle East as … Read more

Israel’s tech community responds to Israel-Hamas war

Israeli soldiers on a tank are seen near the Israel-Gaza border.  Ilia Yefimovich | Picture Alliance | Getty Images On Saturday, Dvir Ben-Aroya woke up expecting to go on his regular morning run. Instead, he was met with blaring alarms and missiles flying over Tel Aviv.  Ben-Aroya, co-founder of Spike, a workplace collaboration platform with … Read more