US Embassy sets out on Passover ‘Operation Afikoman’ – who will find it?

On Wednesday evening, Jewish people all over the world will be celebrating the first night of Passover.  The US Embassy Jerusalem posted a video to their social media on Tuesday afternoon, kickstarting the holiday by having employees at the embassy’s branch in Tel Aviv running around the building looking for the afikoman, in what they […]

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IDF’s intelligence releases annual riddle that stumps more than 99%

The Military Intelligence Directorate release its annual Passover riddle on TikTok on Tuesday which is meant to be extremely difficult to solve. Last year’s riddle released proved so difficult that only 0.1% of people who tried to solve it were successful. This year’s threatens to be just as difficult. @idfofficial אחרי שנה שלמה! כנהוג בחג […]

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Legendary Jewish music exec Seymour Stein dies at 80

Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records, which brought such musical powerhouses as the Ramones, Talking Heads and Madonna to the public light, died Sunday morning in Los Angeles at age 80 after a long battle with cancer. According to Variety, a well-curated mixtape of Sire releases from the ’80s and ’90s is like the […]

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Sitopia guesthouse: A piece of Tuscany in Israel

When Tessa Laws was growing up in the UK, she recalls going on family vacations to places in France and Italy and staying at charming but sophisticated B&Bs, enjoying good food, lively company and beautiful scenery. “I wanted to recreate that same feeling here in Israel,’’ she says regarding the recently opened Sitopia guesthouse about […]

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This four-year-old Emirati boy is the world’s youngest-ever author

Young Saeed Rashed al-Mheiri from Abu Dhabi became recognized as the youngest author in the world by Guinness World Records last month. At only 4 years and 218 days of age, Saeed published his debut children’s book, The Elephant Saeed and the Bear, which received its Guinness verification last month after it passed the 1,000 […]

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Passover message powerful when Ukrainians fight for freedom- Marakova

WASHINGTON – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) hosted its traditional Ambassadors’ Seder on Wednesday, bringing together 90 diplomats from over 60 countries, including envoys from Israel, France, Egypt, China and Turkey. This was the 31st Ambassadors’ Seder hosted by AJC Washington, attended by 300 people at Adas Israel Congregation. Like last year, the keynote speaker […]

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Margot Stern Strom, founder of Holocaust education program, dies at 81

Margot Stern Strom, who drew on the pain of her Jewish childhood in the Jim Crow South to create one of the most widely used Holocaust education programs in American schools, died March 28 at her home in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was 81. The Boston Globe reported the cause as pancreatic cancer. Strom was a […]

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Horror director Ari Aster calls his new movie ‘Jewish Lord of the Rings’

“It’s like a Jewish ‘Lord of the Rings,’ but he’s just going to his mom’s house.” That’s how director Ari Aster, known for his acclaimed horror movies Hereditary and Midsommar, described his new film, Beau Is Afraid, in a behind-the-scenes video released on Wednesday. Aster, who works with A24, the same studio behind this year’s […]

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Rare T-Rex skeleton to go under the hammer in Switzerland

Millions of years after dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the skeleton of a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex was introduced to the public in Switzerland on Wednesday ahead of its auction next month. The giant carnivore, named TRX-293 Trinity, is expected to fetch between 5 million ($5.43 million) and 8 million Swiss francs ($8.70 million) when it goes […]

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