Category: Entertainment

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 […]

It’s about a 30-minute drive from Limassol to the small fishing village of Zygi. The road goes along the coast and then inland a bit. If you aren’t careful, you can miss the turnoff and end up heading along the highway into the mountains toward Nicosia.  If you don’t make that mistake, or if you […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

The Rabbi Sacks Legacy has launched a new interactive family activity for the Passover seder.  The scavenger hunt, made available by the charitable trust which honors the life and teachings of former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, offers a creative way for families to celebrate and learn about the upcoming Passover holiday. Joanna Benarroch, chief executive […]

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. At the SAR High School, an Orthodox Jewish day school  in Riverdale, New York, teens participate in anti-harassment training every fall. Students listen carefully as faculty list […]

A group of 121 orphaned boys celebrated their bar mitzvah together in Jerusalem this week, marking the occasion at the Western Wall in an effort organized by Colel Chabad, a veteran social services group in Israel. The program for bar mitzvah boys who have suffered the loss of a parent has run since 2002.  The […]