Prime TV has removed billboards promoting an upcoming program following complaints by the local Jewish community.

The billboards, in Auckland and Wellington, promoted Madmen: The Glory Years of Advertising.

They bore the slogan: "Advertising Agency Seeks: Clients. All business considered, even from Jews."

The advertising campaign was meant to highlight some of the shocking attitudes of the 1960's.

Prime's Director of Communications Tony O'Brien says the campaign was... Read More

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New York, NY, June 4, 2008 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was honored by a prestigious online safety and education group for its efforts to combat cyberbullying.  A growing threat that affects millions of U.S. teens, cyberbullying is defined as intentional harm inflicted through electronic media.

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WINNIPEG - Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit a record high in 2007, according to a recently released report by the League of Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada. 

The group recorded 1,042 anti-Semitic incidents in Canada in 2007, up 11.4% since 2006. A 59.1% increase was noted on Canadian college and university campuses. 

In Montreal, anti-Semitic incidents increased 16 percent from 2006 to 2007, and regional Quebec showed a significant increase of 282 percent from the previ... Read More

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The Israeli regime's prosecutors have indicted former finance minister Avraham Hirchson on charges of theft, fraud and breach of trust. 

Hirchson, a stalwart of the ruling Kadima party and a close ally of prime minister Ehud Olmert who himself now faces allegations of corruption, is accused of involvement in aggravated theft and fraud, embezzlement, obstruction of justice and conspiring to commit a crime. 

Hirchson stepped down last year -- a year after he was appointed -- ami... Read More

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