Category: Media & Culture

Chaim Topol, who passed away in Israel on Wednesday, was a beloved, acclaimed Israeli actor, best known around the world for his portrayal of Tevye in the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. He was 87. Decades before Gal Gadot, Topol was the first Israeli to conquer Hollywood, receiving an Oscar nomination for Best […]

Beloved actor Chaim Topol‘s coffin was placed in the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv where a memorial ceremony was held on Friday morning. Hundreds of people came to pay their respects in the ceremony in which Culture and Sport Minister Mikki Zohar, Rivka Michaeli, Oded Cutler, Gabi Armani and Topol’s daughter Adi gave speeches. Topol’s […]

Cat lovers are heading to the Polish city of Szczecin to catch a glimpse of Gacek, a chubby black-and-white feline who has become an internet sensation. The cat is sometimes found on a blanket in a small open-fronted wooden box, made by his owner, where he has lived for more than 10 years on Kaszubska […]

Many Americans have the impression that the British are more intelligent and informed than they are. It’s certainly not thanks to the royal family or the fact that they occupied their lands millennia before.  Is it their accent or the fact that they sit in the afternoons for tea time eating sandwiches with cucumbers or […]

With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy Awards. But the hot-dog fingers had other plans. The Fabelmans, the director’s highly personal dramatization of his Jewish upbringing, didn’t win a single one of the Oscars it was nominated for Sunday night. Spielberg’s film […]

The Jerusalem Foundation Inc. (JFI) announced on Monday that its 2023 Innovation Fund raised over $2.5 million in funds to be distributed to 65 grant recipients contributing to Jerusalem’s cultural ethos.  JFI’s Innovation Fund was created in 2020 in an effort to combat the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Per JFI, “the Innovation […]

A three-minute trailer teases a new reality show called “Unseen Housewives,” and features women describing their experiences as child brides in forced marriages.  “I was groomed by a pedophile at age 14 and married by age 16,” one of four young women in the trailer tells the camera. “I turned into a housewife at 14 […]

When the war in Ukraine broke out just over a year ago, Israeli nonprofit Access Israel and its collaborative partner, Accessibility Accelerator, sprung into action.  The Israel NGO, which addresses issues of disabilities access and inclusion worldwide, quickly realized that the estimated 2.7 million people with disabilities in Ukraine and the elderly would have an […]

The Ramada Olivié Nazareth celebrates local culture with authentic cuisine, a market tour and a folklore evening with a kanafeh workshop and a belly dancer.  It’s a pampering hotel with a heated indoor pool and Jacuzzi, a sports center, a spa and fine cuisine. One of the highlights is the Locanda chef restaurant, which reopened […]

During his lifetime, some 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was known as the pioneer of modern anatomy and a painting genius. But there is something clearly wrong with his masterpiece The Virgin of the Rocks. The painting, of which he painted two versions, shows the “holy family” as they fled from Bethlehem after King […]