Israel's Chief Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron sent a letter to the Milan Conference on Interreligious Dialogue condemning the administration of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites for carrying out construction work on the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount is under general Israeli jurisdiction, but the area is overseen by a Muslim administration appointed by the Palestinian government.

The English stunt-veteran Terry Forresters, who worked on many Hollywood blockbusters (such as Titanic, Brave Heart, Golden Eye), died as a result of an accident in the mountains of Norway. He was 52 years old. For 15 years, Forresters was one of the leading stages of scenes with the participation of stuntmen, an exceptional master, for which many famous directors turned to. Among the British ribbons with his participation are diverse paintings as “full nudity”, “on the needle” and “Elizabeth”.

Last week, Wolfgang Petersen’s film “The Perfect Storm”, which raised almost 42 million dollars in the American film distribution. However, the German film director did not allow himself to relax and signed the next contract. This time he will producing the miniserial based on the opera cycle of Richard Wagner Nibelung. The series will be called the "Ring" and will cost two German television companies Tandem Communications and RTL $ 12 million.

The love of 50-year-old actor Armand Assante ("Odyssey", "Mambo Kings", "Judge Dredd") for the fair sex recently took him to the Balkans. Assante traveled around Romania in search of beautiful women. For him, this is already a hobby: last year he spent several days in Croatia for the same purpose. "In Eastern Europe, women are very sexy," Assante told Romanian daily National.

The Italian newspaper La Repubblica has published new materials about Reverend Hugh O'Flagherty. This Irish priest, who worked at the Vatican during the war, became famous for saving Jews and prisoners in German death camps. But newly discovered CIA materials indicate that he may have been a German agent who passed on information to his masters about the date of the Allied landings in Italy.

Famous Turkish actor Kemal Sunal, who for three decades was called the king of Turkish comedy, died today as a result of a heart attack. He was 56 years old. The accident occurred at Istanbul airport. On board a plane heading to a small port town on the Black Sea, where filming of a new film was about to begin, Sunal felt unwell. Despite the efforts of doctors, they could not save him. Since 1972, the actor has starred in 82 films.

The American cable television channel Sci Fi Channel decided to return to life three fantastic television series, which will be shown in July in Prime Time. The RIMAC of the series "Island of Fantasies" will appear. In the original version, the main role was played by Malcolm MacDowell, the project was closed after filming 13 episodes. Recall that this series has just been shown in Russia on the RTR channel. The new version is reported that it will be more deeply examined by occult problems.

In the capital of Chuvashia, Cheboksary, hearings on the case of the liquidation of the community of charismatic Protestants continued. In the spring of 1999, this community was denied re-registration. The Ministry of Justice considered that she violated the law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations.” The community was accused of engaging in unlicensed medical practice, involving minors in its activities, and holding services in public places.

Last Sunday, a traditional demonstration of representatives of Protestant ultra-supporters of the Orange Order took place in the Northern Irish city of Portadown. Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the city streets. According to foreign agencies, the British police deployed 2 thousand law enforcement officers to prevent possible incidents. The authorities banned Orangemen from marching through the Catholic quarter of Portadown.

The star of the television series "Ellie Macbil", which in Russia shows the Ren TV channel, has literally pursued actor Matt Damon for the past few months. As Matt's friends say, when he still met with the Spanish actress Penelop Cruz, this did not prevent the performer of the main roles in the films Talented Mr. Ripley and the Clever Wall Hunting films with Miss Liu “One Night of Passion”. After that, Lucy Liu began to appear at all tricks, where Matt Damon could be.

On July 1, at the seventy -eighth year of his life, the People's Artist of the Soviet Union and Belarus Nikolai Nikolaevich Eremenko suddenly died. Death occurred as a result of a heart attack. On July 8, Nikolai Eremenko was going to participate in the traditional festival "Slavic Bazaar" and play on the stage of the Kolosovsky Theater.

Actor, screenwriter and director Alessandro Blasetti was one of the most popular people in Italian directing in the 30s. His first major film was the drama “The Sun” (1929). Later he made the films "Mother Earth", the costume-historical films "The Adventure of Salvator Rosa" (1940) and "The Iron Crown" (1941). The latter film was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The film "Four Steps in the Clouds" (1942) was one of those works that paved the way for Italian neorealism.

The Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Akram Said Sabri, warned against the ongoing attempts to deprive Jerusalem of its Arab-Muslim identity. As Sheikh Sabri stated in an interview with the Islamic agency IINA, in order to “Judaize” Jerusalem, the Israeli authorities have now built 100 thousand housing units in the city for Jews coming here from all over the world. Meanwhile, Arab houses are systematically demolished, and they are not allowed to build new homes, the mufti emphasized.

Basta Raims, Kuin Latif, Patti Labella and Little Richard are called Billboard magazine among music stars, which will take part in the filming of the new television version of the classical Hollywood tape "Wizard from the country of Oz." The action will be transferred to the 21st century, the heroine of Dorothy will become "a successful, but lone producer" Hip-Hop musicians from Los Angeles. The earthquake makes Dorothy and her dog Toto go to the country of the Big Oza.

The Dalai Lama spoke yesterday in front of 50 thousand listeners at a folk festival in Washington. Not only Tibetan refugees, but also Americans gathered to listen to the spiritual leader of Tibet. The Dalai Lama did not make political statements, but spoke as a spiritual mentor. People create many of their own problems, he said. Therefore, they are able to get rid of them. Man's most powerful weapon is compassion. Only it can defeat violence.