Category: Media & Culture

When the Amazon series “Transparent” premiered in 2014, America had never met a family like the Pfeffermans on TV.  The hit dramedy, following a Jewish family of three adult siblings whose parent comes out as a transgender woman in her 60s, was the first scripted series to center on a transitioning character. The show won […]

Roll out the red carpets, trumpets and dairy food, because this Shavuot meal will have a special guest. Madonna is set to arrive in Israel in the coming days, but it won’t be for a performance. Rather, she’s coming here for personal visits to a number of sites.  According to the “Erev Tov” (good evening” […]

ROME – Two of the pivotal lines in Bruce Springsteen’s canon arrive early in the opening track of his breakthrough 1975 album Born To Run. In “Thunder Road,” he plaintively sings, “So you’re scared and you’re thinking that maybe we ain’t that young anymore.” Imagine, this coming from a 25-year-old. Immediately after, though, he completes […]

The Fundacion HispanoJudía (Jewish Hispanic Foundation, FHJ) recently awarded its first-ever Doña Gracia Award to businessman and philanthropist Stuart Weitzman in recognition of Weitzman’s work in educating Spaniards about their Jewish history. Weitzman, a famed shoe designer, spent 40 years manufacturing his iconic shoes in Spain. According to David Hatchwell, President of the FHJ, Weitzman […]

German actor Christian Friedel said on Saturday that watching himself as the commandant of the Auschwitz death camp in Jonathan Glazer’s film “The Zone of Interest” frightened him. “The challenge in this project (was) for us to find authenticity in the situations,” he told journalists after the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on […]

Noa Kirel, who represented Israel and achieved third place in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest has faced backlash from Poland after commenting on the high score of 12 points that she received from them during the contest’s finale last Saturday night. In an interview with Israeli news site Ynet, Kirel spoke about her experiences throughout […]

Thousands of years after it was last heard in the region, the ancient language of Proto-Semitic is ringing out once again, in a unique audiovisual project at the bell caves at the Beit Guvrin National Park in central Israel. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Israeli multimedia artist Dor Zlekha Levy […]

Israeli pop sensation Noa Kirel was honored on Thursday with a special meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara warmly congratulated Kirel, 22, for her outstanding performance in the Eurovision Song Contest, where she secured an impressive third place. Kirel did a feminine-feminine-phenomenal job During the […]

Israeli actress Gal Gadot and other notable Israelis and Americans were honored by the Israeli-American Council (IAC) and Israel’s Consulate in Los Angeles at their official celebration of the Jewish states’ 75th anniversary of independence. “Israel is my heart and my home,” Gadot, 38, said upon being presented her award. “We all here are deeply […]

Israel will play in its first FIFA World Cup tournament since 1970, as the Under-20 squad will step onto the pitch on Sunday for its debut matchup in the 24-team tournament that is taking place in Argentina. The blue-and-white bucked all of the odds by qualifying for the competition last year as part of the […]