Syria News | News Date April 16, 2012

Warner Bros. shelves Mel Gibson Maccabee movie

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Warner Bros. has put on hold a controversial Mel Gibson movie project about the Jewish Maccabee revolt in the 2nd Century B.C. after reading the script by writer Joe Eszterhas, TheWrap has learned. A spokesman for the studio told TheWrap, "We are analyzing what to do with the project." Jewish groups were outraged after news broke in September that Gibson had reached a production deal with Warner Bros. to direct the story of Judah Maccabee, whose victory over Greek and Syrian armies is celebrated at Hanukkah. One Jewish group called it "a moral lapse in judgment. ...

From afar, Syrian-Americans worry and mourn

Since violence began in their home country more than a year ago, Syrian-Americans have been trying to cope from a distance.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=__6-mP2dWbc:JQTvdEvAvcw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=__6-mP2dWbc:JQTvdEvAvcw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=__6-mP2dWbc:JQTvdEvAvcw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=__6-mP2dWbc:JQTvdEvAvcw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=__6-mP2dWbc:JQTvdEvAvcw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="ht

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