Category: Entertainment

The Jerusalem Roast, a satirical news section on The Jerusalem Post in honor of Purim (credit: JERUSALEM POST) In a bid she claims will “100% solve” Israel’s massive traffic and transportation crisis, Transportation Minister Miri Regev has decided to leave politics for a new career: driving a shuttle bus from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. “The […]

The Jerusalem Roast, a satirical news section on The Jerusalem Post in honor of Purim (credit: JERUSALEM POST) A group of reformed and unreformed Jews stormed a popular mikveh in Safed dressed in several layers of clothing, in protest of Shas’s proposed Western Wall modesty bill. Religious mikveh-goers were shocked, and scrambled to hide, while […]

The Jerusalem Roast, a satirical news section on The Jerusalem Post in honor of Purim (credit: JERUSALEM POST) With a report from Agriculture Ministry that the cat population in Israel has surpassed four million, the cat lobby in the Knesset has stepped its campaign to force a binational state for people and cats. Given their […]

The Jerusalem Roast, a satirical news section on The Jerusalem Post in honor of Purim (credit: JERUSALEM POST) A group of Palestinians from Ramallah have filed a petition with the High Court of Justice in Israel against the use of the label “Day of Rage” in connection with the judicial reform protest movement. “We’ve worked […]

Chaim Topol, who passed away in Israel on Wednesday, was a beloved, acclaimed Israeli actor, best known around the world for his portrayal of Tevye in the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. He was 87. Decades before Gal Gadot, Topol was the first Israeli to conquer Hollywood, receiving an Oscar nomination for Best […]

Beloved actor Chaim Topol‘s coffin was placed in the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv where a memorial ceremony was held on Friday morning. Hundreds of people came to pay their respects in the ceremony in which Culture and Sport Minister Mikki Zohar, Rivka Michaeli, Oded Cutler, Gabi Armani and Topol’s daughter Adi gave speeches. Topol’s […]

Cat lovers are heading to the Polish city of Szczecin to catch a glimpse of Gacek, a chubby black-and-white feline who has become an internet sensation. The cat is sometimes found on a blanket in a small open-fronted wooden box, made by his owner, where he has lived for more than 10 years on Kaszubska […]

Many Americans have the impression that the British are more intelligent and informed than they are. It’s certainly not thanks to the royal family or the fact that they occupied their lands millennia before.  Is it their accent or the fact that they sit in the afternoons for tea time eating sandwiches with cucumbers or […]

With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy Awards. But the hot-dog fingers had other plans. The Fabelmans, the director’s highly personal dramatization of his Jewish upbringing, didn’t win a single one of the Oscars it was nominated for Sunday night. Spielberg’s film […]

The Jerusalem Foundation Inc. (JFI) announced on Monday that its 2023 Innovation Fund raised over $2.5 million in funds to be distributed to 65 grant recipients contributing to Jerusalem’s cultural ethos.  JFI’s Innovation Fund was created in 2020 in an effort to combat the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Per JFI, “the Innovation […]