Category: Media & Culture

Actor Angela Bassett and veteran filmmaker Mel Brooks will receive Academy Honorary Awards this year in honor of their careers and contribution to cinema, Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has said. The Academy announced it had voted to present the awards to two-time Oscar nominee Bassett and “The Producers” writer Brooks, as […]

Flight in the economy class can be the worst part of your trip. Dealing with long hours cramped in tightly packed rows of seats can be extremely unpleasant, to say the least. And we haven’t even mentioned how every minute in this density feels like an hour. That’s precisely why a young Spanish designer named […]

A portrait of an unnamed woman by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for 85.3 million pounds ($108.4 million) on Tuesday, setting a new record price for any work of art sold at an auction in Europe, London-based auction house Sotheby’s said. The painting, which had been given a guide price of 65 million pounds ($82.9 […]

Israeli athlete Mir Segel took first place this week in the 100-meter freestyle at the 2023 Special Olympics world summer games, held this year in Berlin, Germany.  Segel, 28, is an avid swimmer, who is also passionate about gardening, and has an Autism spectrum disorder. Upon receiving his gold medal, with “Hatikvah” playing in the […]

The Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv, in collaboration with Nature Photographers Association, opened an exhibition for Israeli nature and wildlife photography on June 21.  The initiative is a biennial photography exhibition and competition founded about a decade ago by the museum. It features presentations by some of Israel’s top photographers who show their work to […]

Entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and Twitter Elon Musk takes ketamine in small doses daily to treat his depression occasionally taking full doses of the popular club drug Special K when attending parties and events, according to a recent report. These claims shed light on a growing trend among Silicon Valley executives who engage in […]

Rachel Fink first thought she was an unlikely choice to be included in the first cohort of 26 Sacks scholars that gathered in Jerusalem this week. “In all honesty, I first sat here thinking why am I here?,” she told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday night at the opening event of the week-long conference to […]

The Israel National Team demonstrated plenty of grit and resolve to preserve a second-half lead and outlast Ireland in the last-16 of the 2023 World Lacrosse Men’s World Championships in San Diego. With the victory, Israel booked its spot in the quarterfinals, where it will face the top-seeded United States early Thursday morning Israel time […]

The Israel – Premier Tech cycling team will line up at the Tour de France in a special edition jersey to shine the spotlight on Israeli tourism on the global cycling stage. The design is inspired by the Israel National Trail, the walking and bike trail that runs from Kibbutz Dan in the North to […]

Over the past two weeks, thousands have crowded into the huge warehouse-turned-performance space, Hangar 11, to partake of Batsheva Dance Company’s 2023 revival of Ohad Naharin’s expansive playground, Anafaza. The artistic director of Batsheva until 2018, when he became house choreographer, Naharin is, by far, the most celebrated of Israeli choreographers and needs no introduction […]