Ole Bornedal promises he’s not afraid of dybbuks – the malevolent legendary spirit from 16th-century Jewish mysticism and folklore. But the director of “The Possession,” which opens on Friday, has buried in his backyard a mysterious box with the word “Shema” on its cover and containing a ring of unknown origins. The film is based on a novel about that box. Oh, and one day all the neon light fixtures exploded on the movie set. On another day, shortly after the film wrapped, a fire destroyed all the props. Creepiness aside, Bornedal and his crew have brought to life the entity famously featured in S. Ansky’s iconic book “The Dybbuk.” The eerie film places the story in a present-day suburban setting, features Kyra Sedgwick and marks the big-screen debut of Matisyahu. Despite it all, Bornedal still insists: “I’m not superstitious.”

When Haifa district court judge Oded Gershon found for the defense in the lawsuit Rachel Corrie’s parents brought against Israel in the killing of their daughter by an IDF bulldozer in 2003, Corrie supporters decried the verdict as evidence that the Israeli judiciary is complicit in a corrupt system designed to maintain the “occupation.” But others hailed the decision as a triumph of justice and truth over a propaganda campaign designed to turn what was an accident into a crime. What’s certain is that nine years on, Corrie’s status as a martyr for the pro-Palestinian movement – at the time she was killed, Corrie, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement, was protesting Israel’s presence in Gaza – is secure.

If women’s images can’t appear on Jerusalem’s buses, Orly Erez-Lahovsky hopes at least that their voices can be heard on the radio. Erez-Lahovsky filed a $26 million class-action suit this week on behalf of Kolech, a religious women’s group in Jerusalem, against haredi Orthodox radio station Kol Berama for not hiring women as broadcasters or allowing them to be interviewed on air (Kol Berama now reportedly says it will give women at least four hours per week on air). The suit comes after Israel’s Transport Ministry declared last month that it would not fund transportation operators who discriminate against women in advertising. Until then, Jerusalem’s public Egged buses did not run ads showing women in deference to haredi sensitivities. Now Egged has decided that, to avoid controversy, neither men nor women will appear in bus ads.