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Andie MacDowell stars in Israeli film about life choices, based on Cameri play

Hollywood star Andie MacDowell doesn’t lose her fabulous head of perfectly graying curls in “My Happy Ending,” a story of cancer and friendship,...

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Robbie Williams bonds with Israel’s Noga Erez ahead of Tel Aviv show

UK pop star Robbie Williams will fulfill his wish to perform with indie Israeli singer Noga Erez Thursday night at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. Williams,...

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Backstreet Boys can’t reschedule nixed Israel show for this year

After the Backstreet Boys canceled their planned May 13 performance in Israel due to the military conflict with the Gaza Strip and the threat of...

01.06.2023 20

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Creatures large and small draw caricaturist’s attention

Humorist Dudi Shamai is known for his political caricatures and children’s book illustrations, as well as his series of fish — the more fins and...

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Haifa artworks can be seen on the way to work (or school)

Take a stroll down Ben Gurion Boulevard in Haifa’s German Colony this spring and stop at one of the video screens placed outdoors. There’s one at...

01.06.2023 20

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Modern and ancient coexist in $50 million Tower of David renovation

It’s taken six years to fully renovate Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum, an ancient citadel adjacent to the Old City’s Jaffa Gate that dates...

29.05.2023 20

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Israel Museum enters new phase with new director Denis Weil

It’s been one year since Swiss-born Israel Museum director Denis Weil started his new job, moving to Israel from Chicago to head one of Israel’s...

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Two Arab artists from same hometown but different generations win prestigious prize

There are more than a few similarities between the two recipients of this year’s Rappaport Prize for Israeli Artists, awarded to an established...

17.05.2023 40

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PJ Library authors discuss storytelling with Etgar Keret during Israel trip

“Writers are agents of ambiguity,” Etgar Keret told a room full of children’s book authors, as they nodded in agreement. The proclaimed Israeli...

16.05.2023 10

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Beloved singers, eco-activists and designer dreams among true tales at 25th Docaviv

Tel Aviv’s 25th Docaviv Festival opened Thursday, May 11 for 10 days of international and local documentaries covering a myriad of subjects, from...

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Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan avoids tech, but imagines it for her characters

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan is a self-professed technophobe who writes her fiction in longhand. And yet, in her most recent book,...

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Museums open doors for free to mark International Museum Day

Israel is marking International Museum Day on Tuesday, with free entry throughout the day to dozens of museums. It’s a good day to offer free entry,...

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Israeli protests are already altering trajectory, says writer Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian author of the dystopian novel-turned-TV show “The Handmaid’s Tale” isn’t surprised that hundreds of Israeli...

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A tale of two Herzls premieres in Tel Aviv in new opera ‘Theodor’

“Theodor,” an original Israeli Opera production about two periods in the life of founder of modern Zionism Theodor Herzl, will be music to the...

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A sculptor’s view of humanity launches reimagined Tel Aviv museum pavilion

There are two chunks of history to consider at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s retrospective of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, hosted at the...

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Sam Spiegel film school incubator celebrates first decade

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Sam Spiegel international film lab, the Jerusalem-based school spent two days screening its graduates’...

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Fantasy meets reality in botanical art exhibit

Art imitates nature and vice versa at Yaar, a new gallery in Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens, just outside the tropical conservatory. Nothing appears...

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Artist connects the dots for a new look at Israel’s leaders

Exhibit of 12 neo-pointillist portraits of prime ministers offer fresh perspectives for Israel’s 75th, at Jerusalem Biennale Gallery in old...

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National Library seeks personal diaries and accounts from 1948

The National Library of Israel is gathering diaries and personal written accounts from the period of the establishment of the State of Israel, part of...

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Cinematheque opens archive to global viewers for Israel’s 75th

Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive is marking the country’s 75th Independence Day by streaming 75 classic Israeli films. The films are...

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Earth Day art murals reinvent crumbling army barracks at Dead Sea

Crumbling, abandoned Jordanian army barracks on the banks of the Dead Sea were reinvented as vast concrete canvases by 10 visiting muralists in time...

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Gal Gadot hosts Holocaust survivor for remembrance event in her LA home

Gal Gadot hosted a Zikaron Basalon event, an intimate gathering to hear the testimony of a Holocaust survivor, at her Los Angeles home on Holocaust...

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Tar player Piris Eliyahu melds East and West, with pianist wife

When Tar player and composer Piris Eliyahu performs in Jerusalem on Thursday night, he and his new quartet will break new ground, connecting East and...

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Musical and literary icon Yehonatan Geffen dies at 76

Writer and lyricist Yehonatan Geffen died Wednesday at age 76. Geffen was known for his left-wing leanings, his writing — particularly books, songs...

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Wedding dress made from Filipino fabric is testament to family’s Nazi Germany escape

There are many ways the Preiss family remembers the Holocaust-era escape of Ralph Preiss and his parents from Nazi Germany to the Philippines, where...

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AI brings 2 distinctly Israeli voices to life for Israel’s 75th

Ofra Haza died 23 years ago and Zohar Argov has been dead for 36 years. Now the two singers, beloved voices in the Israeli musical pantheon, are being...

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Mainstream Israeli artists make music to connect youth to Holocaust

Israeli artists have long written songs about the Holocaust, including Ehud Manor and Avi Toledano, whose “Chai” was sung by Ofra Haza for...

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Teen helps Holocaust survivors tell stories through art projects

It was four years ago that Shira Israeli, then a ninth-grader from Shoham studying at Atid School for Science in Lod, was assigned to create a film...

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Meir Shalev, beloved writer of fiction and complicated Israeli lives, dies at 74

Renowned Israeli author Meir Shalev whose works melded the power of biblical narratives with the complicated lives of modern Israelis died Tuesday...

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Brooklyn food blogger gets creative with kosher recipes in latest cookbook

Food blogger and cookbook author Chanie Apfelbaum spent many Passovers avoiding eating gebrochts — anything made with matzah that has absorbed...

10.04.2023 80

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Channeling late mom Bambi, Tovah Sheleg gives voice to Jerusalem protesters

For the last 13 weeks, a crowd of thousands gathers Saturday nights outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, shouting “De-mo-cra-cy” and...

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Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover with fresh start and new Haggadah

When Ukrainian Jews sit around the Seder table this week, celebrating Passover very differently than in the past, they’ll be able to use the first...

05.04.2023 80

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Artistic freedom on display at historic high school’s Passover biennale

It was a clever idea to host the first Autonomous Art Biennale, a sprawling art exhibition, at the Gymnasia Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv, given...

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Tel Aviv Museum of Art among 50 most popular museums worldwide

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art ranked 48th on The Art Magazine’s recently released list of the 100 most popular museums in the world, with over one...

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After several tries, Morrissey confirms two July shows in Israel

English singer and songwriter Morrissey is returning to Israel after a seven-year hiatus prolonged by several canceled shows due to the COVID-19...

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Ukrainian immigrant makes matzah for friends in Odesa

Alina Tirnovienko always ate matzah on Passover back in Odesa, usually celebrating the seder at the local Chabad. Now she is one of the workers making...

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Authors, poets to read Book of Lamentations in protest of overhaul

Dozens of writers and poets were set to gather Tuesday to read the Book of Lamentations (Eicha), written in 586 BCE for the destruction of Jerusalem....

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Russian-Israeli artist dreams of Israel’s desert landscapes

It was while she still lived in Moscow that artist Natalia Zourabova began dreaming of Israel’s desert landscapes, the great expanses, warmth and...

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After arrest at protest, ‘Our Boys’ director Hagai Levi calls overhaul ‘a blasphemy’

Acclaimed Israeli director Hagai Levi lashed the new government and its judicial overhaul after being arrested while filming police at a protest on...

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Genderless collection hits runway on last day of Fashion Week

House of Jaffa designers Golan Frydman and Eddie Gavrillidis brought their brand of casual streetwear to Tel Aviv’s Hangar 11 runway on Wednesday...

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Oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible manuscript on display in Israel for 1st time

The Codex Sassoon, the oldest-known and the most complete Hebrew Bible manuscript, will go on display for the first time in Israel on Thursday at Tel...

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Tel Aviv Museum of Art to darken galleries in protest on Thursday

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is joining the countrywide judicial overhaul protests planned for Thursday, March 23, and will darken the halls and...

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Tel Aviv Fashion Week sees anti-overhaul protest on the runway

Designer David Weksler took protests against the coalition’s divisive judicial overhaul on to the fashion runway on Sunday at the opening of Kornit...

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Artist-teacher reflects on life and work from seat of wheelchair

Yael Robin believes in the power of art. It says as much on her bio page on the Israel Museum’s website, and this lifelong art teacher has lived...

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This (half) marathon runner will jog Jerusalem barefoot

It won’t be hard to pick out runner Rom Carmi during Friday’s Jerusalem Marathon. He’ll be the one running barefoot, his long mane of wavy brown...

16.03.2023 80

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Brat Packer Rob Lowe spotted on ‘guys’ trip to Israel

US actor Rob Lowe is visiting Israel this week, staying in Jerusalem’s King David Hotel for what he told another guest was a “guys’ trip.” The...

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Netanyahu critics urge Germany, Britain to cancel his visits over judicial overhaul

Hundreds of Israeli writers, artists, and intellectuals on Tuesday called on Germany and Britain to cancel upcoming visits by Prime Minister Benjamin...

14.03.2023 80

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With olives pressed and picked, local farmers hope consumers discover oil in Israel

First it was local wines, now it’s olive oil. Local growers want Israelis to up their olive oil game, swapping out lower quality supermarket imports...

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Barrier-busting women-only album of Hasidic tunes gives new voice to aging nigunim

There’s a powerful sense of the spiritual and sacred in the songs of “Kapelya,” a new full-length album of Hasidic melodies. There’s also a...

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What Matters Now to Joel Chasnoff and Benji Lovitt: Love for Israel’s magical chaos

Welcome to What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. As Israel...

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