Felder’s ‘Before Fiddler’ Highlights Music of Sholem Aleichem Era
Hershey Felder continues to stream one-man shows from his current residence in Florence, Italy. Among his many portrayals of famous composers such as Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikowsky and Debussy, he also featured three great Jewish...
Elaborate Roman mosaics make way back to new Israeli museum
After years of touring the world’s leading museums, several exquisite 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics returned to Israel for public display.
For more than ten years, the mosaics went on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of...
February 4, 2004: Facebook shows its face
Facebook was launched from a Harvard dormitory room by Mark Zuckerberg, then 19 years old, and three classmates on this date in 2004. By summer they had an investor, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of...
‘Artists for Good’ Donate Works to Aid Non-Profits
What if immersing yourself in art could create ripples that would beautify someone else’s world? Imagine simply indulging your inner aesthete and at the same time providing aid and support to a worthy charity....
Jewish director Sam Mendes wins two Golden Globes for World War I film ‘1917’
Jewish director Sam Mendes won big at the 77th annual Golden Globes on Sunday night in Los Angeles, taking home two honors for his World War I epic “1917.”
After Mendes won the award for...
National Library of Israel preserving ‘collective memory’ of Oct. 7
The National Library of Israel has embarked on a massive project to collect and archive all published materials about the Oct. 7 massacre, both the good and the bad.
While scholars and the curious public...
Biva la senseridad
Uno resive un telefón del Ufisio de Rejistrasión de los abitantes:
“Shalom, yo tengo menester de uno kuantos detalios. Komo te yamas?”
– “Adam.” responde el ombre.
“Situasión familiar?”
El ombre responde: “Kazado.”
“El nombre de tu mujer?”
– “Eva”
“Ande...
Dime ke me amas
Kuando te rekodro no tengo de ninguna okupasion, solamente topar muestro amor, te amo komo sos, ma tengo de topar munchos sentimientos komo alegría ma pienso ke soy mazalozo
Tu amor puedo ponerlo koalo mi...
Artist depicts disarmingly beautiful Holocaust art
At first blush, the recent, photorealistic paintings of Los Angeles-based Jewish artist Robert Russell look inviting, almost sweet. A lamb turns its head to look back over its shoulder in one, and in another, a crouching...
Scarlett Johansson Opens Paris Popcorn Shop
Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson opened a popcorn shop in Paris.
The actress and her husband, Romain Dauriac, launched the Yummy Pop store in Paris’ Marais district on Saturday.
Johansson was on hand to scoop popcorn for...