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‘No business with Neo-Nazis’. (Image Flats! via Flickr., CC BY-SA/The Conversation)
September 24, 2026, 8:18 am
How Germany’s far right uses emojis and fashion to sidestep ban on Nazi symbolism
From runic lettering to carefully arranged clothing, extreme-right supporters signal their affiliations, including co-opting established brands who oppose their ideology
By Tom Birkett, Felix Lummer and Timothy Liam Waters
Gene Simmons of Kiss performs at Staples Center in Los Angeles, March 4, 2020. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ABA via JTA)
May 5, 2020, 1:38 am
Kiss frontman Simmons learns about Holocaust survivor mother’s ordeal
German newspaper presents Israel-born rock star with 100 pages of documents about his late mother’s experiences to mark 75th anniversary of her liberation
By Marcy Oster
Gene Simmons (photo credit: CC-BY-Alberto Cabello, Wikimedia Commons)
November 17, 2017, 9:25 pm
Kiss’s Gene Simmons banned from Fox News for life
Israeli-born singer reportedly barges in on staff meeting, exposes torso and tells ‘chicks’ in the room to ‘sue me!’
By ToI Staff
Gene Simmons (r) with the band KISS seen making the two-fingered gesture at LG Arena in Birmingham, UK on May 10, 2010. (CC BY-SA Andrew King, Flickr)
June 16, 2017, 4:32 pm
Gene Simmons seeks to trademark rock hand gesture
Israeli-born bass player and vocalist for KISS claims he first used the index finger and pinky sign in 1974 tour
By David Sedley
Gene Simmons performing with KISS in 2010. (CC BY/Wikipedia)
August 21, 2015, 6:28 pm
Gene Simmons’ home searched in child abuse probe; not a suspect
Reports suggest probe linked to possible crime at KISS singer’s LA home while he was on tour last year
By ToI Staff
Gene Simmons performing with KISS in 2010. (CC BY/Wikipedia)
September 4, 2014, 10:18 pm
A KISS for the homeland
Legendary rock band, fronted by Haifa-born Gene Simmons, to finally perform in Israel
By Gavriel Fiske
Gene Simmons and his wife, Shannon Tweed (photo credit: screenshot, YouTube)
August 16, 2014, 8:31 pm
KISS rocker sorry for attack on depressives
Gene Simmons apologizes for urging drug addicts and mentally ill to ‘just jump’ off a roof
By ToI Staff
Paul Stanley performs with KISS in 2003 (photo credit: Adam Bielawski/PRPhotos)
April 13, 2014, 1:47 am
Why KISS won’t make up
Two of the band’s original members are accused of anti-Semitism in new memoir
By Talia Lavin
Bar Refeali and Jesse Heiman, lip-locked (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
February 3, 2013, 5:45 pm
Refaeli’s Super Bowl kiss censored
CBS insists on toned-down version of Israeli supermodel’s TV commercial make-out with computer nerd
By ToI Staff
Internet geeks, there's hope for you yet. (YouTube screenshot)
February 1, 2013, 7:56 pm
Bar’s not-so-hot Super Bowl kiss
Israeli supermodel makes out with a nerd in TV ad set to air during Sunday’s big game
By ToI Staff
Gene Simmons and his wife, Shannon Tweed (photo credit: screenshot, YouTube)
September 19, 2012, 10:03 pm
Study hard, Kiss rocker tells kids
Gene Simmons offers some more advice, this time to ORT students in Tirat HaCarmel, his hometown
By Jessica Steinberg
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