Missouri art center ‘heartbroken’ over pain caused by anti-Israel show
Craft Alliance, an arts center in St. Louis that promotes contemporary craft, apologized for and removed an exhibit that it said “contained antisemitic imagery and slogans calling for violence and the destruction of the Jewish State...
‘Jews in Magic’: Reviving a 1933 history book by Guenther Dammann
New York Times business reporter David Segal tells the story of Richard Hatch, a physicist-turned-magician who works to revive the writing of Guenther Dammann, author of 1933’s Jews in Magic, who died during the Holocaust in 1942.
At 23,...
‘Soundtrack of our lives,’ KKL-JNF releases photos of poet Hayim Nahman Bialik
The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik died on July 4, 1934—158 years after the adoption of the American Declaration of Independence. As the anniversary of his death approaches on this year’s U.S. Independence Day,...
Director of Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis’ fears world on precipice of World...
oe Berlinger says he was troubled when he read reports of a 2018 study from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which showed one in 10 millennial Americans thought that Jews were...
Mimi’s Ark: Showing Love for Ramona’s Wildlife
Throughout his life, Roy Toft has always had an affinity for animals. This amiable Ramona photographer, now in his early 60’s, has had many adventures, photographing wildlife and leading tours around the world. He...
Attempts by ancient rabbis to curb Greek theater a comedy of errors, per new...
All the rabbinic world was not a stage, and all the halachic scholars were merely players in it telling obedient Jews to avoid the theater at all costs.
In the sixth-century Midrashic text, Ruth Rabah, Naomi tells her...
NYTF Takes Home Drama Desk Award for Amid Falling Walls
We are excited and proud to share with you, our friends and patrons, that National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue for our production of Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike...
Astronaut Ilan Ramon’s Space Diary Arrives at the National Library of Israel
- The National Library of Israel is proud to announce it has received the space diary of Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, on long-term loan from the Ramon family.
On Saturday, February 1, 2003,...
WATCH: Seinfeld gets emotional talking about Israel trip
Visiting Israel after the Oct. 7 atrocities “was the most powerful experience of my life,” American Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld said in an interview with journalist Bari Weiss released on Tuesday.
The 70-year-old Brooklynite became...
Oct. 7, verbatim
The same week Ireland’s Bambie Thug was embarrassing her country at Eurovision, in New York City two Irish investigative journalists premiered the first play about Oct. 7. Not surprisingly, it was difficult to find...