Category: Media & Culture

Ever since I was a teenager, inspired by a wise Jewish South African educator named Sam Ernst, I have been fascinated by great people, with Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, and Menachem Begin topping the list.  I’ll never forget the excitement of seeing Frank Sinatra open the Frank Sinatra Student Center at the Hebrew University of […]

(JTA) — Running a not-so-Zagat-rated deli, dropping into a Chinese restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner and acting out a bat mitzvah that involves a vampire — for contemporary board game fans, those can be all in an evening’s play. That’s because a crop of new games aims to merge Jewish ideas and experiences with the […]

Jason Schwartzman is starring as a cantor who takes on an adult bat mitzvah student played by veteran actress Carol Kane in an upcoming comedy film. Shooting for “Between the Temples,” a self-described “anxious comedy,” has already wrapped, Variety reported on Wednesday, but no release date was given. The film was written and directed by […]

As Israeli pop sensation Noa Kirel is preparing for the Eurovision final this Saturday, and after having won the hearts, and votes, of fans around the world with her high-energy semi-finals performance, according to Maariv reporter Kaitz Brebner.  Brebner set out to hear what journalists from across the world had to say about her chances. […]

Israeli pop sensation Noa Kirel, who is representing Israel at this year’s Eurovision, was voted in at the semi-finals on Tuesday night and will compete in the finale of the competition on Saturday night. Eurovision is an annual singing competition show for European countries, Israel and Australia.  It is typically hosted by the country which […]

For the first time, the luxury ship MSC Musica has arrived in Israel. Weighing 92,409 tons and carrying over 3000 passengers, it is the largest ship to sail from Israel this summer. MSC Musica cruises will depart from Haifa port every week on Thursdays until the beginning of November to the Mediterranean basin. MSC Musica […]

Nitay Zelinker keeps fit, physically and emotionally. And while he’s at it, he produces some enticing sounds and rhythms and makes a crust in the process. Zelinker engages in the ancient art of taiko drumming. In fact, that’s a mite tautologous. In Japanese, “taiko” means drum. So what brought a young student from the Ben […]

For the first time in Israel, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA) presents a retrospective exhibition of Alberto Giacometti, one of the best-known and most important artists of the 20th century. Spanning 130 works, including iconic sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints, the exhibition inaugurates the Eyal Ofer Pavilion, renamed after the Israeli billionaire on […]

Palestinian and Israeli children have concluded their season-long coexistence soccer initiative.  “Sporting in the Service of Peace,” a program run in partnership with Adidas Israel, brought together children from third to sixth grade to play soccer together in mixed teams on the Israel-Gaza border. This was the first season the initiative resumed since a COVID-19 […]

When it comes to travel, politics plays a large role. When a leader makes antisemitic comments, few of us ignore the insults, and we do our utmost to avoid traveling to that country. We’ve seen in the past few years when a country covets us, be it the United Arab Emirates, Morocco or Egypt, the […]