Ishay Ribo to be the first Israeli to headline at Madison Square Garden

The Orthodox singer Ishay Ribo, whose music has attracted a diverse audience of religious and secular Israeli fans, will be the first Israeli artist to headline a concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. “I’ve been keeping this inside for a long time and more than once I pinched myself to check if I […]

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Want to be productive? Here are five ways to stop procrastinating

Procrastination is a trap that many of us fall into. In fact, the data shows that about 80 percent of people are procrastinators. One in five is already a chronic procrastinator. Although it may be comforting to know that we are not alone in this, we need to understand how much it can hold us […]

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Upcoming film ‘Jerusalem 67’ will chronicle Israel’s Six-Day War victory

A high-profile movie project depicting Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War could star “Jane the Virgin” actress Yael Grobglas. Oded Raz — known for directing the Israeli box office hit “Maktub,” which now streams on Netflix — will direct “Jerusalem 67,” Variety reported on Friday. Grobglas — a French-Israeli actress who starred in last […]

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Eurovision: Israel’s Noa Kirel banned political questions in interviews

Israel’s 2023 Eurovision Song Contest representative Noa Kirel would only accept interviews from international news outlets as long as they didn’t ask any political questions about Israel, Ynet reported. Speaking to Walla! Culture, Noa Kirel‘s spokeswoman Shir Pinto confirmed this report, which said that the reason for this condition is that “this is a music […]

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Photographic art exhibition ‘Black Life White Art’ opens in Ramat Aviv

The art of photography has taken a bash or two over the last couple of decades, thanks to technological advancements. Today, we are all “photographers.” All we need to do is whip out our cell phone and merrily snap away. We are now at a stage in the evolution of human consciousness, social awareness and […]

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Druze chutzpah and food in New York City’s Upper West Side

It takes a lot of chutzpah to open a restaurant serving ethnic cuisine in New York City – arguably the city with the most diverse culinary scene in the world. Growing up Israeli, though, Gazala Halabi knows a thing or two about chutzpah and what makes good food. The chef, a Druze woman hailing from […]

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WATCH: Noa Kirel to take the stage at Eurovision finals tonight

Israeli pop star Noa Kirel is set to take the stage to represent Israel with her song “Unicorn” at the Eurovision finals in Liverpool on Saturday night. Earlier in the evening, Kirel received the title of fan favorite in a competition on Eurovision’s official TikTok account. NOA KIREL from Israel performs during the first semi-final […]

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Israel at 75: The history of celebrities, VIPs visiting the Jewish state

Ever since I was a teenager, inspired by a wise Jewish South African educator named Sam Ernst, I have been fascinated by great people, with Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, and Menachem Begin topping the list.  I’ll never forget the excitement of seeing Frank Sinatra open the Frank Sinatra Student Center at the Hebrew University of […]

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Board game makers are imagining new Jewish worlds

(JTA) — Running a not-so-Zagat-rated deli, dropping into a Chinese restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner and acting out a bat mitzvah that involves a vampire — for contemporary board game fans, those can be all in an evening’s play. That’s because a crop of new games aims to merge Jewish ideas and experiences with the […]

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