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...
Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival (Jfest) returns to celebrate 31 years of...
Mandy Patinkin in Concert headlines this year along with the 15th inspiring Women of Valor, International Hip-Hop Artist Nissim Black, Italian Jews Through the Generations, a Premier Play in Spanish, The Klezmer Summit,...
‘Perfect time’ to return to Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ on 120th Bloomsday
Cultural pilgrims flock to Dublin annually on June 16 to celebrate the inside-baseball, literary “holiday” Bloomsday, which marks the single day upon which James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses is set.
“Hands up how many people have read...
‘Hard-pressed’ to imagine world without ‘Shulchan Aruch’ 450 years after Joseph Caro’s death, experts...
Marianna Stell was reshelving a book at the Library of Congress in 2017 when a “beautiful, even manuscript hand” on the shelf caught the reference librarian’s attention. After consulting with colleagues in the Hebraic...
Visceral reminder of Holocaust in form of cattle car exhibit in Washington
A cattle car exhibit on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this week welcomed visitors, including elected and appointed officials, for an immersive learning experience about the Holocaust, as well as the dangers of...