Atlanta Jewish Film Festival: Opening, Closing Lineups Announced
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the largest film-fest in Georgia drawing nearly 40,000 movie-goers each year, has announced its 2018 line up for several key nights, including opening and closing.
The festival, held at various...
![By Weygand [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/800px-Place_Fontaine_des_barres_Limoges-324x235.jpg "Tapestries in a medieval castle inspire visitors")
Tapestries in a medieval castle inspire visitors
BOUSSAC, France — The region around Limoges has been known since medieval times for its weavers. The art of tapestry-making once flourished there for many generations, passing down from father to son. Today the...
Celebrating International Women’s Day with the female chefs shaping Israeli dining
In a traditionally male-dominated industry, it is female Israeli restaurateurs at the forefront of Tel Aviv’s thriving culinary scene who are charting the way forward for Israel’s food culture. Ruti Broudo, Merav Barzilay and...
Jewish Poets, Voices to Feature Salovey, Thall, Gottleib
Todd Salovey, Lorraine Thall and June Gottleib are the three local poets to be featured in Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices’ opening program of its 2020-21 season. The virtual event will be streamed on Zoom Tuesday...
Matching half of Roman-era lamp unearthed in Jerusalem possibly found in Budapest
The Roman-era oil lamp recently unearthed in Jerusalem may be the missing half of a similar artifact found in Budapest nine years ago, the City of David Foundation announced on Sunday.
Mere hours after publication of the...
Israel Radio’s Assault on Classical Music
When I first arrived in Israel, in the early 1960s, there was no TV and only one radio program. In England the radio had played an important part in my and my family’s life,...
Artist Frieda Salvendy Commemorated in British Town of Her Retirement
Malvern has attracted a fair number of people with refugee status over the last one hundred years or so. The most recent to come under public gaze is an Austrian woman, Frieda Salvendy. Frieda...
The Structure of our Modern Digital Public Opinion
The following topics constitute the structure of the digital reputation of a public figure, and are either solid props to ameliorate or sustain it or accursed arms to destroy it. The young technocratic masses...
Flamenco Sephardit returning for fifth year in Miami Beach
The concert Flamenco Sephardit which celebrates two distinct Spanish cultures fused together through music, dance and poetry returns to Miami Beach for the fifth consecutive year on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.
This upcoming fifth...
You may go nuts over ‘Squirrels’
LA JOLLA, California — Sure, we’ve all seen actors warming up by reciting tongue twisters or singing scales to loosen up their vocal cords, doing yoga poses or lunges to limber up and get their...