Category: Entertainment

For the first time, the luxury ship MSC Musica has arrived in Israel. Weighing 92,409 tons and carrying over 3000 passengers, it is the largest ship to sail from Israel this summer. MSC Musica cruises will depart from Haifa port every week on Thursdays until the beginning of November to the Mediterranean basin. MSC Musica […]

Nitay Zelinker keeps fit, physically and emotionally. And while he’s at it, he produces some enticing sounds and rhythms and makes a crust in the process. Zelinker engages in the ancient art of taiko drumming. In fact, that’s a mite tautologous. In Japanese, “taiko” means drum. So what brought a young student from the Ben […]

For the first time in Israel, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA) presents a retrospective exhibition of Alberto Giacometti, one of the best-known and most important artists of the 20th century. Spanning 130 works, including iconic sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints, the exhibition inaugurates the Eyal Ofer Pavilion, renamed after the Israeli billionaire on […]

Palestinian and Israeli children have concluded their season-long coexistence soccer initiative.  “Sporting in the Service of Peace,” a program run in partnership with Adidas Israel, brought together children from third to sixth grade to play soccer together in mixed teams on the Israel-Gaza border. This was the first season the initiative resumed since a COVID-19 […]

When it comes to travel, politics plays a large role. When a leader makes antisemitic comments, few of us ignore the insults, and we do our utmost to avoid traveling to that country. We’ve seen in the past few years when a country covets us, be it the United Arab Emirates, Morocco or Egypt, the […]

All the different countries participating in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool have put out their songs, so it’s time to see what competition awaits Israel’s Noa Kirel. Only 37 countries will take part this year, most of whom are spread out between two semi-finals. Here, Israel will need to compete with 15 other […]

According to Jewish lore, God has been making matches since the creation of the world. Aleeza Ben Shalom has been at it only since 2007 — but the Jewish matchmaker is about to bring what she calls “the most important job in the world” to the masses. As the host of “Jewish Matchmaking” on Netflix, […]

Rabbi Harold Kushner was often identified as the author of “Why Bad Things Happen to Good People,” when the correct title of his best-selling 1981 book is “When Bad Things Happen to Good People.” The book was never meant to provide a definitive solution to the age-old question of theodicy — why God permits evil […]

As a young teenager growing up in Manhattan, Nina Kauder found it nearly impossible to ask her mother difficult questions about puberty or her Jewish identity, for two reasons. Her mother had fled the Holocaust as a child and was, in Kauder’s words, “very tough” to talk to. And by the time Kauder was a […]

For the first time, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature was given to the author of a book in Hebrew and its translator, in a sign of the award organization’s desire to expand the prize to non-English language works. “Jerusalem Beach,” a book of short stories that draws on Israeli author Iddo Gefen’s background […]