Category: Entertainment

What is a gallery? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is a building devoted to the exhibition of works of art.  Accor, Europe’s largest hospitality company, has almost simultaneously launched two new hotels in Israel as part of its boutique MGallery Hotel Collection, each with its own original artistic design and unique story. Let’s start […]

Next month, the Negev will come alive with the Desert Nights-Negev Stars Festival.  Over 300 activities and attractions will be taking place from the Northern Negev to the Southern Arava, all at a subsidized cost of up to NIS 20. The event is hosted by the Negev Development Authority’s Tourism Department of the Negev, Galilee […]

(JTA) — The FIFA Women’s World Cup is underway, with 32 teams from around the globe competing in the quadrennial tournament, co-hosted this year by Australia and New Zealand. It has been an exciting year for Jews in men’s soccer: In the men’s World Cup in the winter, two Jewish players, goalkeeper Matt Turner and […]

Thomas Poretsky is six years away from being behind the wheel of a street-legal car and is too young to drive bumper cars at the State Fair. This is ironic as he stands in the shadow of Elko Speedway in a firesuit and holds his racing helmet, waiting to take his Bandolero race car onto […]

This summer in Israel, 150,000 children and youth will participate in 50 different summer camps in KKL-JNF forests across the state. This figure is set to break records, enabling an unprecedented number of young Israelis to experience, firsthand, Israel’s forests. Already, every year, hundreds of thousands of Israelis visit these national forests. The 50 different […]

Aleeza Ben Shalom is a distinguished coach, renowned speaker, expert, and author of Get Real, Get Married and Virtual Dating. As the founder of the company Marriage Minded Mentor, she assists singles worldwide in navigating their path to engagement and marriage, breaking patterns, and building fruitful relationships. Her expertise extends to training dating coaches and […]

Sand Flakes is a heartfelt and moving coming-of-age story about a teenage boy who aspires to be a writer, and his mother, who gave up on her own ambitions years ago and now suffers from a crippling illness. The son writes short stories – dramatized in beautiful animations – which are a thinly veiled version […]

Guy Raz’s podcast “How I Built This’’ is an instruction manual for anyone seeking to create the next Airbnb or Spanx. From international reporter to author and leading podcaster, Raz, 47, has become an icon in the business world. His bestseller, How I Built This, released in September 2020 and based on his podcast, is a […]

The “Taco Tuesday” trademark dispute between Taco Bell and Taco John’s has come to an end as fast-food chain Taco John’s told the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) it would abandon its federal “Taco Tuesday” trademark. “We’ve always prided ourselves on being the home of Taco Tuesday, but paying millions of dollars to lawyers […]

In the second season of “The Nanny,” the sitcom she wrote and starred in, Fran Drescher’s character, Fran Fine, refuses to enter a hotel where the busboys are striking. “I’m sorry, but the Fines don’t cross picket lines,” she tells her companion, the father of the family she works for. “It’s against our religion.” The […]