Category: Media & Culture

The Efrat community was left in shock on Friday morning after a terror attack in the Jordan Valley took the lives of Efrat residents and sisters Maia and Rina Dee when on their way to Tiberias for the weekend. Their mother, Lucy (Leah), was critically wounded in the attack and was transported to Hadassah Ein […]

Seems as though Arik (Harry) and Efrat Rozental have taken a leaf out of Theodor Herzl’s book. “If you will it, it is no dream,” the Zionist leader famously posited back in the late 19th century when doing his best to drum up support for a Jewish homeland. It could just as well serve as […]

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published their annual Online Holocaust Denial Report Card on Monday, rating the top ten most popular social media and gaming platforms on the degree to which they aid the spread of Holocaust denial content.  The report’s introduction points out that even though the Holocaust is one of the most well-documented atrocities […]

Growing up in a Jewish home in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Mimi Sheraton seemed destined for a life in food. Her father, Joseph, sold wholesale fruit and vegetables to vendors in the Lower East Side, and her maternal grandmother, Greta Breit, was a talented cook who made her strictly kosher food from scratch. Her mother Beatrice, […]

Three families were standing near the shuttle station by the parking lot of the First Station outside of Jerusalem’s Old City, wondering if the shuttle to the Western Wall was running. The signboard said that details can be obtained at the 106 municipality hotline, which turned out to be closed due to the holiday. A […]

Kosher-keeping tourists in Tel Aviv are in for a treat during this Passover holiday. A high-end Israeli hotel has taken on the challenge of creating alcoholic beverages that were inspired by the exit of the Hebrews from Egypt. The Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv has created a special twist for the Passover holiday: Passover-themed cocktails […]

If we’d have made this trek 120 years ago, we’d have started in Prussia and finished in Russia. But this is 2023 Poland. The route from Poznan to Lodz is like traveling through time, from historic city walls and impressive town squares, via flat, fertile agricultural land and Jewish heritage sites, arriving in a former […]

Educator and Israel Prize winner Miriam Peretz, whose two sons were killed in battle while performing their duties The software asked: What gave you the power and mental strength to be the representative of the bereaved families, where did the strength and inspiration for your dedicated work come from and how do you see and […]

You’ve just tidied your home from top to bottom. Why not do the same for your accessories?  This is the perfect time to take inventory of your jewelry – and men, that includes watches, cuff links and your wedding ring – and make it sparkly for spring. Power of organization You may be keeping your […]

American Singer-Songwriter Lionel Richie’s daughter Sofia Richie has completed her conversion to Judaism, according to her Instagram.  Richie, 28, revealed on Monday that she had been attending conversion classes ahead of her marriage to Elliot Grainge. In the post, she thanked cantor Nathan Lam writing, “I  want to thank cantor Nathan Lam for helping me […]