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Yahoo
18-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Virginia Beach Public Library to host ‘Americans and the Holocaust'
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – The Virginia Beach Public Library will be one of only 50 U.S. libraries to host Virginia Beach Public Library to host 'Americans and the Holocaust,' a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association (ALA) that examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans' responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s 'We are honored to be selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants from all across the nation to host this impactful exhibition,' said Library Director Kimberly Knight. The exhibit will run from May 23 through June 28, examining various aspects of American society such as: the government, the military, refugee aid organizations, the media and the general public. 'We invite community members to come to experience it, and we're excited to be partnering with the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater to offer programs for teens and adults,' Knight explained. 'The exhibition will challenge people to reflect, not only asking 'What would I have done?' but also, 'What will I do?'' The exhibit will be focused towards adults and teens, with various events scheduled in June. There will also be guided tours of the exhibit for both adults and teens on Saturdays, June 14, and June 28, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., as well as select evening during the week. For more information about 'Americans and the Holocaust' and related programming at Virginia Beach Public Library, visit To learn more about the exhibition, visit Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Newsweek
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
All of Donald Trump's 'Real Housewives' Connections Explained
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. After President Donald Trump appointed Real Housewives alum Siggy Flicker to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's board of trustees, his connection to the television show has been further analyzed. Trump has been linked to several stars of the reality TV franchise before and during his time in office. Why It Matters Trump has appointed many of his business connections and donors during his presidency, with some Americans feeling the appointees were unqualified or misaligned with the government roles for which they were chosen. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Oval Office at the White House on May 5 in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Oval Office at the White House on May 5 in Washington, To Know Here's a list of the Real Housewives franchise stars linked to the president, including Flicker from Real Housewives of New Jersey, as well as Lisa Rinna and Joe Giudice: Siggy Flicker Flicker this month was appointed to the board of the Holocaust museum, which works to fight antisemitism with its exhibitions, training programs and education. All council members appointed by the president serve a five-year term. Flicker, who is Jewish, was born in Israel and has made her support for Israel known on social media in recent months. Her father, Mordecai Paldiel, escaped Nazi-occupied Belgium at just 3 years old. Flicker has been publicly supportive of Trump in recent years, saying she voted Republican for the first time in the 2016 election. Flicker first met Trump after he became president through her friend and Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba. 'The Celebrity Apprentice' Connections Lisa Rinna Rinna, actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, was on Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice show. Nene Leakes and Brandi Glanville, of Real Housewives of Atlanta and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fame, respectively, also had their own appearances on Trump's show, which featured stars competing for money to help their favorite charities. Another Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, Kyle Richards, was seen on The New Celebrity Apprentice show in 2017. Joe Giudice Giudice, a notable Real Housewives of New Jersey star, asked Trump for help in gaining U.S. citizenship in January. The entrepreneur said he was hopeful Trump's reelection would help him get back to the U.S., where he's lived his whole life. His wife Teresa appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice in 2012. "When I met Trump, I mean, he was very nice to me," Giudice said, as reported by People. "I was very nice to him when we were on his show over there. I don't know. I mean, I think he should get me back." Giudice and his wife Teresa were indicted on federal fraud charges in 2013, and the former TV star was deported back to his birthplace of Italy in 2019. But Teresa called Trump "broke" on Watch What Happens Live. Host Andy Cohen later revealed that Trump called afterward and was "furious." "He was like, 'You need to do a retraction!' It was a whole thing," Cohen said, as reported by Yahoo. Cohen said Teresa "wound up posting a retraction or something" about Trump, who ran in the same circles as she and her husband. What People Are Saying Flicker wrote in a May 5 Instagram post: "President Trump... Thank you for the privilege (and) honor to represent and NEVER FORGET." Trump wrote in a May 6 post on Truth Social about his appointments: "They are all strong supporters of Israel, and will ensure we, NEVER FORGET. Congratulations to all!" What Happens Next Trump has continued bringing in several appointees for government positions. His new head of Social Security, Frank Bisignano, has pledged to overhaul the Social Security Administration's operations by using private-sector efficiency. During his Senate confirmation hearing, Bisignano described the agency's overpayment rate of 1 percent as "five decimal places too high" and emphasized his intention to reduce improper payments through technology upgrades and artificial intelligence tools. "At the end of the day, we need to evaluate the ability to pay back and work it out. ... I'm going to make sure we recover all the money we should recover, but on the other hand, we need to be humans in the process too," Bisignano added. Linda McMahon, appointed as education secretary, is making major changes to the Department of Education, causing millions of federal student loan borrowers to see higher monthly payments.
Los Angeles Times
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Trump administration boots Doug Emhoff from museum board, plus L.A. arts and culture this week
President Trump continues to press for control over institutions that shape the arts, culture — and history. Last week the administration removed board members appointed by former President Biden from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., including former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris. 'Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized,' Emhoff, who is Jewish and a leader in fighting rising antisemitism against Jewish Americans, wrote on social media after his termination. 'To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous — and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that this museum was created to preserve.' A few days earlier, the Associated Press reported that a week of events connected with the city's World Pride Festival celebrating the LGBTQ+ community had been quietly canceled at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The news was not surprising to those who have followed the national arts institution since Trump fired much of the board and orchestrated his appointment as chairman. A page on the Kennedy Center website still references its Tapestry of Pride programming, but it doesn't connect to any events. Groups planning festivities at the center told the AP that after Trump's takeover, their contact with the venue went dark, forcing them to relocate their performances to other venues. One sign of resistance, however, flashed on Friday, when House Democrats asked the Smithsonian's inspector general to investigate the legality of Trump's executive order threatening to pull funding for museums with ideology that the president deemed 'improper.' That announcement follows resistance seen on a more local level, including the Japanese American National Museum in L.A. declaring that it would not bend to pressure to scrub references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its website. 'Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,' a museum official said. I'm culture writer Jessica Gelt, here with Ashley Lee with your weekly arts news and some worthwhile diversions from our reality. 'Saban has made it her cunning practice to reconstitute painting and sculpture, to fiddle with foundations, essences and definitions, to take nothing for granted,' wrote Times contributor Leah Ollman of Analia Saban in 2017. The artist will be joined by Naoko Takahatake (director and chief curator of the UCLA Grunwald Center of the Graphic Arts), Case Hudson (master printer at Gemini G.E.L.), Shaye Remba (director of Mixografia) and Francesco Siqueiros (founder of El Nopal Press) in a conversation exploring the place of printmaking in her creative practice, as well as her many collaborations with renowned print shops around Los Angeles. The free talk takes place Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of revolutionary French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, the Los Angeles Philharmonic (which Boulez conducted often), French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard (whom Boulez invited to be in his Ensemble Intercontemporain) and L.A. Dance Project will join Esa-Pekka Salonen for a program that Times classical music critic Mark Swed touted last month. The belated birthday concerts (Boulez was born March 26) take place Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. (Another Boulez-centric event is set for May 30 at UCLA's Nimoy Theater, with L.A. pianist Gloria Cheng and Dutch pianist Ralph van Raat performing Boulez's two-piano 'Structures,' along with pieces by John Cage, Stravinsky and Frank Zappa.) This week's concerts will be at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown. 'Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America' tells the story of the Chinese populations who were lured to the United States in the 19th century to work, only to be expelled later by politicians as a perceived national threat. Writers Bloc presents a conversation about the book between author Michael Luo, also the executive editor of the New Yorker and a former New York Times journalist, and Charles Yu, author of the novel 'Interior Chinatown.' The talk takes place Monday at 7:30 p.m. The Ebell of Los Angeles, 741 S. Lucerne Blvd., Mid-Wilshire. — Ashley Lee ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Fest Stephen Schwartz hosts this two-night event: Monday features 'Songs From the Cutting Room Floor,' composers performing tunes that were painfully excised from their hit musicals; in Tuesday's Musical Theatre Workshop, composers present excerpts from 'Piney Needlesmith and the Road Less Traveled' and 'Weekend.' 7:30 p.m. Monday. 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. 1975: Fifty Is the New Hollywood The Who's musical 'Tommy,' directed by Ken Russell, launches this tribute to one of the landmark years in cinema; other films (with special guests) include 'Dog Day Afternoon,' 'Nashville,' 'The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser' and 'Cooley High' (with Michael Schultz, Glynn Turman and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs). 1 and 4 p.m.; series continues through May 26. Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., L.A. Dr. Phil Live With Adam Ray The lighthearted lampooning of the TV therapist returns with an all-star supporting cast of comedians in an array of ridiculous sketches. 8 p.m. Comedy Store, 8433 Sunset Blvd., L.A. Life of Pi A 16-year-old boy survives on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger in Lolita Chakrabarti's adventurous stage adaptation of Yann Martel's bestselling novel. Through June 1. Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. Central Cee The U.K. rapper tours behind his debut LP, 'Can't Rush Greatness.' 7 p.m. Hollywood Palladium, 6215 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. J Balvin The reggaeton singer goes 'Back to the Rayo' on his tour. 8 p.m. Toyota Arena, 4000 Ontario Center, Ontario; 8 p.m. Friday. Kia Forum, 3900 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood. Debussy & Boulez Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the L.A. Phil in a program contrasting Bartók and the two iconic French composers. 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. Love's End French director Maurice Attias brings a slice of French culture to L.A. with the West Coast premiere of 'Clôture de l'amour' (Love's End) by celebrated French playwright Pascal Rambert in an English translation by Jim Fletcher and Kate Moran. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through June 15. Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. Yo La Tengo An evening with the eclectic indie rock band and its most recent album, 'This Stupid World.' 8 p.m. The Novo, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., L.A. When nominations were announced, even the most bankable star power couldn't push aside artistic innovation in the races for theater's biggest honors. Broadway is awash in big names — Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, George Clooney, Kieran Culkin — and even bigger ticket prices this season, but only one of those megastars received a nomination: Clooney for his work in 'Good Night, and Good Luck.' Bob Odenkirk also earned a nod for his role in the revival of David Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross.' 'Buena Vista Social Club,' 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Maybe Happy Ending' led the pack with 10 nominations each. Read all about the nominations here. Times theater critic Charles McNulty offered his take in a piece titled 'Tony nominations reward audacious risk-taking on Broadway.' ICYMI, you can catch up with McNulty's earlier assessment of this year's crop of new shows. Ownership of the Frieze art organization is changing hands. Beverly Hills entertainment company Endeavor is selling it to a new events and experiences company launched by Endeavor's founder, agent Ari Emanuel. Times staff writer Wendy Lee has the full story of the transfer of ownership, reportedly worth an estimated $200 million. Beloved L.A. Phil music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel is heading to New York City in advance of his move there to take over the New York Philharmonic at the end of the 2025-26 season. He may still belong to L.A., but this summer he's scheduled to conduct four free New York Phil concerts in parks around the Big Apple. The 15th annual theater festival is on the calendar for June 12-29, and tickets for hundreds of shows, featuring a wealth of local and national talent, are on sale now. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra recently held a sold-out gala at the Skirball Cultural Center that raised more than $1 million for the organization. Paul Broucek, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Music, was honored at the event, as were longtime LACO supporters Sandy and Pat Gage. — Jessica Gelt Want a ridiculously filling, meat, cheese, egg and potato-stuffed breakfast burrito? Head to Pasadena!
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's appointment of 8 new members to Holocaust Memorial Council stirs controversy
WASHINGTON () — President Donald Trump made new appointments to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Several Jewish advocacy organizations said it's something that should not be politicized. It's a controversial move after the president removed several Biden appointees on Tuesday. Community pushback at forum opposing Commanders stadium deal There are 68 members on the council, and 55 are appointed by the president. They serve staggered five-year terms that are meant to carry over from one administration to the next. Late Thursday night, President Trump announced eight new members of the council, including conservative media personalities and the son of Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. 'It is my pleasure to announce the appointments of Betty Schwartz, Fred Marcus, Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz, Sid Rosenberg, Ariel Abergel, Barbara Feingold, Alex Witkoff, and Robert Garson to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. This Council has the important task of preserving the memories and stories of the loved ones whose lives were robbed in one of the darkest moments in History. NEVER FORGET!' Trump posted on Truth Social. Jarvis Slacks is against this move. 'I don't like it, and I think all of us should be upset by it,' Slacks said. It comes two days after Trump fired eight members appointed by former President Biden in January. LGBTQ community celebrates Pope Francis' legacy of compassion and understanding That included his former chief of staff, Ron Klain, and former second gentleman Doug Emhoff. 'Let me be clear: Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized,' Emhoff stated. Slacks said it is 'absolutely terrible.' 'It's obnoxious. That's not what these museums are about,' Slacks said. 'The government funds them and then they independently do their job, which is educate the public.' Ron Halber is the CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. 'The sudden dismissal of trustees well before their terms expired — without any apparent cause and just days after Jewish people around the world commemorated Yom Hashoah — is an unwarranted intrusion into the museum's operations, which by design and in practice are strictly nonpartisan,' Halber said. Howard University Mini-Med program inspires next generation of doctors DC News Now asked the White House why Biden's appointees were terminated and the press office said to check Trump's Truth Social. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a statement, 'At this time of high antisemitism and Holocaust distortion and denial, the Museum is gratified that our visitation is robust and demand for Holocaust education is increasing. We look forward to continuing to advance our vitally important mission as we work with the Trump Administration.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
30-04-2025
- Politics
Kamala Harris steps back into limelight as Trump celebrates his first 100 days
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who has stayed largely out of the political limelight since leaving office, is set to deliver remarks on Wednesday in San Francisco as the Trump administration celebrates its accomplishments of its first 100 days. Harris will be speaking at the 20th anniversary celebration for Emerge, an organization that supports Democratic women running for office. The former Democratic nominee for president has had few public appearances since departing the White House, and has limited her political activity. But her remarks come as she is set to possibly re-enter politics in the coming months. Harris has been mulling a run in California's gubernatorial race and will make a decision by the end of summer, two sources familiar with her plans told ABC News in March. Some Democrats have also floated her as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, although some of her longtime supporters have told ABC News they are torn over that prospect. Whether she runs for either office or not, Harris' public remarks thus far have sometimes included veiled and explicit swipes at the Trump administration and the president himself. In remarks at a women of color leaders summit in early April, she weighed in on the second Trump administration, saying "there is a sense of fear that has been taking hold in our country" but that "courage is also contagious." And in remarks at the NAACP Image Awards in February, Harris framed the "chapter" America is in as one that "will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us. The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people." Harris and her spouse Doug Emhoff have been the target of recent actions by President Donald Trump. Trump issued a memo in March that revoked the security clearances and access to classified information of his previous presidential opponents -- Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris -- as well as more than a dozen former administration officials. On Tuesday, Emhoff said he had been dismissed from the board of trustees of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as the White House confirmed it had removed board members.
