Category: Entertainment

PISAC, Peru — About 20 miles northeast of the tourist capital of Cusco, the small Peruvian town of Pisac sits nestled among the verdant Andes Mountains. Lined with cobblestone streets and two-story adobe houses, the town offers a distinct blend of ancient Incan culture and breathtaking landscapes.  Pisac’s main square, Plaza de Armas, is often […]

Chanie Apfelbaum’s newest cookbook, “Totally Kosher,” is filled with many inventive, flavor-packed recipes, like “Miso Matzo Ball Soup,” “Berbere Brisket” and “Pad Chai,” a shrimp-free version of the Thai staple. But while the book is designed for kosher-keeping observant Jews like herself, Apfelbaum — who boasts 101,000 followers on Instagram and runs the popular Jewish […]

American ultra-Orthodox singer Lipa Schmeltzer revealed last week that he was sexually molested while growing up in an insular Hasidic village in New York. In a video posted to YouTube titled “My heartfelt message of personal growth & challenges before Matan Torah 5783” the popular singer known for lively Yiddish lyrics said that he had […]

Thomas Buergenthal, a survivor of Auschwitz who became a judge at the UN war crimes court in The Hague, has died aged 89. Buergenthal was born in 1934 in what was then Czechoslovakia, to a Jewish family that was forced to flee to Poland when the Germans invaded. He was one of the youngest survivors […]

Food and seduction. Two words that may not always go together, however, are more related than they seem. Eating is supposed to bring us pleasure and make our stomachs full but what if we changed the way we thought about food? What if it made us uncomfortable? It isn’t often that someone really thinks about […]

World renowned singer-songwriter Celine Dion has made the heartbreaking decision to cancel all of her upcoming live shows due to her battle with a rare neurological disorder. Dion revealed in December that she was suffering from Stiff-Person Syndrome (SPS), which was affecting her ability to sing. As a result, she has now cancelled all the […]

Jonathan Glazer’s film “The Zone of Interest,” a film about the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolf Höss and his wife, won the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival, the second-most prestigious prize at the festival, on Saturday. “The Zone of Interest” centers on Höss and his family as they set up […]

Many of us like to go on vacation to relax and recharge. In fact, one type of vacation that is growing in popularity is the wellness retreat. Instead of just hanging out at the pool, people are joining guided meditation workshops, participating in yoga classes, and savoring spa treatments. And if the retreat happens to […]

CANNES – The Cannes Film Festival is all about commerce, art and glamour. Its 76th edition hosts 12,500 professionals from 121 countries and offers 4,000 feature, documentary and other films – presented in 33 screening venues – for sale at the Cannes Film Market. Nineteen films are competing for Cannes’ top prize, the Palme d’Or. […]

Noa Kirel accepted an invitation on Thursday from the Polish Foreign Ministry to visit Poland after her recent comments about her family being killed in the Holocaust caused upset in the country. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski said that the singer had accepted an official invitation to visit Poland after her comments at the […]