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![]() Rich TenorioThe Times of Israel |
Jews call it the ayin hara, Italians know it as mal’occhio, and among Latinos, it’s mal de ojo. It’s one of history’s most durable forces: The...
When the Muslim diplomat Usama ibn Munqidh visited Jerusalem in the early 12th century, recent history hardly portended a peaceful stay. A few decades...
Jacob Judah Leon Templo’s interest in biblical structures defied the imagination. A prominent Sephardic Jew in the 17th-century Netherlands, Leon...
Unimaginable losses during the Holocaust help foster an unlikely bond between protagonists in the Hungarian feature film “Those Who Remained,”...
As the Empire of Japan’s vice consul in Lithuania during World War II, Chiune Sugihara issued visas that proved life-saving for thousands of Jewish...
After the United States and Great Britain, the destination that attracted the most Jewish immigrants between the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
WORCESTER, Massachusetts — King Richard I the Lionheart of England and Ayyubid Sultan Saladin of Egypt charge toward each other on horseback. The...
It’s been over a decade, but Israeli director Tomer Heymann vividly remembers his first encounter with one of his most rewarding students. Heymann...
BOSTON — The war in Ukraine has dominated headlines about the country for the last 13 months, but a new Israeli feature film focuses on an...
Israeli photographer Ardon Bar-Hama has worked with the Dead Sea Scrolls, and now he can add Spartacus to his repertoire. Bar-Hama has made a career...
From the righteous to the revolting, Jewish Canadian film director Barry Avrich’s documentary profiles run the gamut. But he’s never had a subject...
With the future of World War II in the balance, the Allied “Big Three” leaders — United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British...
Located on the coast of a rocky peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean Sea, Melilla, an autonomous Spanish port city in North Africa, is home to...
DOHA, Qatar — Watching Sunday’s World Cup final, Ahmed al-Salem was more emotional than most soccer fans when Qatar’s emir placed a black and...
As an inmate in the New York State prison system, Hanukkah was a surreal experience for Daniel Genis. Candles were forbidden at most of the facilities...
When King Josiah of Judah turned 20 years old, he embarked on a dramatic renovation of the First Temple in Jerusalem. During the long reign of his...
Ancient Greece and Rome are well represented in museums across the world, but the contemporaneous civilizations of Yemen — including a mysterious...
“Jazz Provides Background for Death,” screamed the Associated Press headline following the January 26, 1959, murder of Irving Levy at Birdland in...