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![]() Jessica SteinbergThe Times of Israel |
If there’s one thing artists have learned, it’s that Instagram offers the perfect blank canvas. Particularly during a pandemic. Israeli artist...
Want to understand the Israeli heart and soul? Listen to a tune by Ehud Banai. Or Ishay Ribo. Or Hadag Nahash. That’s what Makom, the education lab...
Sometimes it takes years to finish a project. As long as 20 years. It’s been two decades since self-taught guitarists Shimshon Meir Frankel and...
Planning ahead for better times, the International Jerusalem Film Festival produced by the Jerusalem Cinematheque has announced its 2021 festival...
A treasure trove of materials in the archives of Tel Aviv’s Beit Ariela public library has been brought to life with the online performances of...
If you think event-planning for a massive crowd is hard, try planning for an event without one. In the nine months since the pandemic first forced...
Bat-Galim Shaer — mother of Gil-ad Shaer, one of the three teenagers kidnapped and killed by terror group Hamas in June 2014 — has mourned deeply...
During the months of the pandemic, the Vertigo Dance Company has performed online, at a drive-in event in a Jerusalem parking lot, and in small,...
Whatever happens in this year of the coronavirus, culture will never die, vow organizers of the Tel Aviv Tarbut Onamut festival, a series of 60-minute...
A unique Byzantine-era blessing token featuring baby Jesus was recently unveiled by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, harking back to a time before a...
It appears that Santa Claus has made a Tel Aviv detour this year — for some fun and games. The city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa marked the Christmas holiday...
The king of the reality music show concept, Simon Cowell, will star as a judge on the Israeli version of “X-Factor.” Cowell will feature in the...
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say police in Berlin arrested two men Wednesday suspected of involvement in a series of far-right attacks. ...
Through a year of uncertainties, with bar and bat mitzvahs moving from event halls to Zoom screens, Adin Markowitz was sure of only one thing: When he...
Rock star Aviv Geffen and Haredi singer Avraham Fried are an unlikely pair for a duet, but the two vocalists recently recorded Geffen’s song...
Vocalist Tamar Rada feels more Israeli than Ethiopian, but the language, beats, and rhythms of her native land are what move the singer-songwriter. ...
Hundreds of local photographers are taking part in this year’s “Local Testimony,” an annual photojournalism event, which is opening December 24...
Sunday is the day Israeli “Shtisel” fans have been waiting for, with the long-awaited premiere of Season Three of the beloved drama screening 9...
Nazareth’s second Liturgical Festival, a three-day feast of religiously-themed classical music, may never have taken place had a Russian immigrant...
You don’t need to travel to Jerusalem to take part in this year’s art and musical festival Musrara Mix. Celebrating its 20th year, the...
This Hanukkah, the festival of lights that celebrates all things fried, is an opportunity to taste sufganiyot made by Shula (Giladi) from Shtula,...
“Your Honor,” a new Showtime limited series starring Bryan Cranston, is based on Yes Studio’s “Kvodo,” which screened in Israel in 2017. ...
Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah. The Jewish winter festival is the latest holiday to fall victim to the coronavirus. In Israel, a potential nightly curfew had...
In the 25 years since Marina Gefterman established her Beersheba dance studio, Top Dance, she has shepherded young, mostly Russian immigrants through...
Eighties pop star Boy George, declaring his love for the state of Israel, has come out with a new single, “Rainbow in the Dark,” written and sung...
Pastry chef Keren Kadosh usually begins testing her sugar-encrusted, cream-filled and confection-topped sufganiyot the day after the Sukkot holiday,...
A number of Israeli museums will be permitted to reopen their doors starting Tuesday, after the government gave the go-ahead for a pilot program meant...
It’s been 76 years since Hungary-born poet and paratrooper Hannah Senesh, at the age of 23, was parachuted into occupied Europe by the British in an...
When Julie Mayer was growing up in downtown Brooklyn, artist and Holocaust survivor Fred Terna was her parents’ friend, “the old man with the...
It’s been a dark period for the art world, as museums, galleries and art spaces have been shuttered for most of the last eight months. A new Tel...
As Israel’s theater world struggles to find action and meaning during the ongoing pandemic, Isra-Drama, a digital three-day event will bring...
There’s nothing like a pandemic to bring artists together, as with the 40 Israeli singers participating in “Katan Aleinu,” roughly translated as...
The Solidarity Tel Aviv Human Rights Film Festival will take place online, December 3-10, featuring films from Israel and abroad dealing with the...
When Israel signed the Abraham Accords peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates in September, Israeli entertainers began brushing up on their...
PARIS — Hopes over COVID-19 vaccines have given a boost to virus-weary citizens across the globe in recent days, but the disease remains rampant and...
As Hanukkah approaches, there are valiant efforts made to single out the country’s best sufganiya, jam or cream-filled fried doughnuts that are as...
In the world of priceless artwork, as with all items, what gets lent must get returned. But the coronavirus has wrought some unusual situations,...
In the 24 minutes of “Birth Right,” Inbar Horesh’s new short film, she delves into Russian immigration to Israel and the intricacies of who is a...
If you’re over 60, Jewish and single, CoronaCrush Speed Dating is looking for you. CoronaCrush – creating Jewish couples in quarantine, a...
When it comes to the Ethiopian experience in Israel, anthropologist and writer Naomi Shmuel has a unique perspective, as a British-born Israeli...
This year’s “Docu.Text” Film Festival, the National Library of Israel’s annual documentary film event, is going global with two parallel...
When Israel went into lockdown last spring, shoe designer Kobi Levi couldn’t help but feel inspired. Known for his outlandish, quirky creations —...
Chicken soup season has arrived. With November rains and stormy weather, even in Israel, it’s time for the magical concoction of chicken broth...
Jerusalem’s beloved annual summertime film festival is finally taking place December 10-20, but will be held online instead of on the silver screen,...
Jerusalem’s German Colony and Baka neighborhoods were once considered the sleepier side of the city, home to historic buildings, single-family homes...
Another week, another online film festival, as the Jerusalem Cinematheque launches the 22nd Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, November 11-22, with all...
Tel Aviv is determined to bring culture back to the fore, hosting its annual Loving Art event on November 12-14, a festival of artists and residents...
When Inbal Hoffman’s new exhibit, “Mundane Heights,” opened Thursday night at Jerusalem’s Anna Ticho House, administered as part of the Israel...