Aaron Sorkin on board to write Steve Jobs biopic

Aaron Sorkin is to tell the story of Apple's tumultuous rise to the top in a new film about Steve Jobs.

The screenwriter, who has previously taken on the internal politics of the Oval Office and the creation of Facebook, will write the script for a biopic about Apple founder Steve Jobs.

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Alan Rickman to star as CBGB club owner Hilly Kristal

The story of a man who gave some of the biggest names in punk rock their start is to be made into a film.

Hilly Kristal, who founded and owned the iconic Manhattan nightspot CBGB, will be played by Alan Rickman in the forthcoming film.

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Legal case launched after Hungarian actor attacked as filthy Jew

A prominent Hungarian actor has started legal proceedings after he was described as a "filthy Jew" by a politician from the right-wing Fidesz party.

Film star Jozsef Szekhelyi was also disparaged for sympathising with left-wing politics by a politician who sits on the council of the northern town of Eger.

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Watered-down presence at annual Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage

Hopes that Tunisia's Jewish community would be able carry out its historic Lag B'Omer festivities to the scale it once did were dampened last week when crowds stayed away because of security concerns.

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Israel-Egypt peace dubbed a threat by Islamist presidential hopeful

Israel's peace treaty with Egypt has been described as "a national security threat" by one of the frontrunners for the Arab country's presidency.

Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh said that the 1979 peace agreement, brokered a year before at Camp David between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, should be revised.

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Israel not on the list for NATO summit in Chicago

Israel will not be invited to the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance conference in Chicago at the end of this month, following the collapse in its relationship with Turkey.

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Row in Hungary over far-right politician's Jewish jibe

Israel's envoy in Hungary has cancelled a scheduled visit to the northern town of Eger to protest against allegedly antisemitic comments made by a local politician and directed at a Jewish actor.

The Eger council member, who is part of the right-wing Fidesz party, is reported to have called national film star Jozsef Szekhelyi a "filthy Jew" who sympathises with left-wing politics.

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Solidarity rally for Orthodox Jew held in Bolivian jail

Hundreds of members of New York's strictly Orthodox community gathered last week to highlight the inaction over the plight of an Orthodox Jewish businessman incarcerated in a Bolivian jail without charge.

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'Wild Thing' Sendak dies

The children's author Maurice Sendak has died at the age of 83.

Mr Sendak, best known for his children's book Where The Wild Things Are, was also a costume-maker for ballet and opera.

The grandson of a rabbi and the son of Polish Jewish immigrants to New York, several members of his family perished in the Holocaust.

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Berlin hosts art from both sides of fence

This year's 7th Berlin Biennale, which opened on April 27 and runs until July 1, focuses on political art and includes exhibitions connected to the Holocaust alongside Israeli and Palestinian works.

One of the highest-profile shows is Berlin-Birkenau, an exhibition by Polish artist Lukasz Surowiec, who took hundreds of birch trees from the area surrounding the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and plante

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Outrage over SS poem on memorial day

A poem honouring a Dutch Waffen SS volunteer, which was to be read at the Dutch Second World War memorial event in Amsterdam, has been withdrawn after fierce opposition.

The poem, written by a 15-year-old boy about his uncle, was to be read at the commemoration last week in Dam Square, attended by the Dutch Royal Family.

The plan met fierce resistance from the Centre for Information and Docu

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Man faces jail for black teen assault

An Orthodox Jewish man from Baltimore accused of assaulting a black teenager 18 months ago has been convicted of false imprisonment and second-degree assault. Eliyahu Werdesheim, 24, was on patrol for the Shomrim, a community neighbourhood watch group, when the 15-year-old was attacked. The teen was allegedly thrown to the floor and hit several times, and was later hospitalised.

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Orthodox outrage over Bolivia jailing

Hundreds of members of New York's strictly Orthodox community gathered last week to highlight the plight of an Orthodox businessman incarcerated in a Bolivian jail without charge. A crowd including Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Orthodox musician Lipa Schmeltzer demonstrated outside the Bolivian mission to the UN and called on US authorities to press for his release.

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German firm sends hate mail to Israel

A Tel Aviv businesswoman who received antisemitic emails from a German company says a written apology is not enough.

Eti Doron, 53, owner of the Toysim gift shop in Tel Aviv, is considering suing the supplier that sent her two hate-mails after she asked to delay a 600-euro purchase.

In his letters to Ms Doron, Walter Adler, founder of Hoff-Interieur in Nuremberg, called her "a real Jew, not

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'Kill the Jews' abuse on Toulouse campus

The president of the French Jewish student umbrella body, the UEJF, has called on the University of Toulouse to combat antisemitism after a talk by Israeli students last week was disrupted by protesters shouting abuse, making threats and singing antisemitic chants.

The incident occurred just over a month after three Jewish children and a rabbi were shot by an Islamist gunman in Toulouse.

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