Category: Entertainment

In 1725, Abraham de Oliveyra was officially registered as a silversmith in London — the first Jew known to be given a license to practice the trade in the city. Jews had been let back into England just 70 years beforehand following an expulsion centuries earlier, and Oliveyra’s registration established him as a prolific maker […]

Amar’e Stoudemire hasn’t donned a Phoenix Suns jersey since 2010, but soon, no Suns player will wear his No. 32 ever again. The Suns announced Wednesday that Stoudemire, along with his teammate Shawn Marion, would be inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor during the 2023-2024 NBA season. According to the team’s press release, this […]

Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and main songwriter in The Band, the Canadian-American group known for songs including “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” has died at the age of 80, his manager said on Wednesday. Robertson, who left his Toronto home at age 16 to pursue his rock’n’roll dreams, died Wednesday […]

At Yotvata, a kibbutz near Eilat, during August, kids are all smiles, gulping down glass after glass of chocolate milk. Everywhere you look, there are happy faces and chocolatey mustaches, with endless chocolate milk on tap. Yotvata Kibbutz has recently announced the reopening of its “Chocolate Milk Faucet” at the Yotvata Inn, offering travelers enroute […]

Canadian rapper Tory Lanez was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison, more than seven months after he was convicted of shooting fellow musical artist Megan Thee Stallion during an argument in 2020. Judge David Herriford handed down the sentence to the 30-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, during a hearing in […]

Israeli pop star and Eurovision 2023 representative Noa Kirel will star at Madison Square Garden in New York in June 2024, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. Kirel’s management has reportedly been in talks with the venue for the past two months in an effort to book the prestigious arena and now an advance payment has […]

August 8, 2023 marks the 21st annual International Cat Day, a yearly celebration of everyone’s favorite – and oft aloof and quirky – feline friends. But despite how popular cats are, not everyone knows the best ways to adopt them. Unlike humanity’s other domesticated pet of choice, the humble dog, the not-so-humble cat is known […]

(JTA) — Adam Weiner, leader of the rock band Low Cut Connie, says he can find inspiration in just about anything. “I could be sitting at a salad bar at a mall, and that gives me everything I need to know,” he said on a video call from a house in New Mexico, where he […]

A Holocaust museum is being built virtually inside the online video game Fortnite, numerous sources reported this week. The building will be named the Voices of the Forgotten Museum. Players entering the building with their characters will enter its virtual halls – which will contain plaques that describe the horrors Jews felt in Nazi Germany. […]

Simon Biles, an Olympic gold-winning gymnast from the United States, made her return to gymnastics after two years out of the competition circuit with a performance to Israeli musician Noa Kirel’s “Unicorn.” Fans at the Chicago, Illinois-based competition, the 2023 Core Hydration Classic, watched Biles make her exciting return to the sport. “Unicorn” was Israeli […]