Ancient Jerusalem wine found to be seasoned with vanilla
Researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University were surprised to discover remnants of vanilla in 2,600-year-old wine jars unearthed in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem.
The researchers were investigating two buildings...
Israel’s 2023 Eurovision song entry: ‘Unicorn’
Israel’s entry for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest is called “Unicorn” and will be released in full next month, the Kan public broadcaster announced on Tuesday.
The song will be performed at this year’s contest in Liverpool...
Thieves caught robbing 2,000-year-old Galilee archaeological site
Authorities caught five suspects red-handed trying to rob a 2,000-year-old antiquities site in northern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.
The suspects were trying to rob a Roman-Byzantine site in the village of...
Primer Amor
Kamino en las kayes...tu siempre en mi tino
Sol de mi vida,tu hazes briyar mi destino.
Nesesito ver tus miradas kon las sonrizas,
Mi oyido en tu boz,mis ojos onde pizas.
En mis lavyos tu nombre,tu sangre en...
$55 million to be invested in Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem
The Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem has several projects underway at a total cost of 200 million shekels ($55 million).
The initiative seeks to...
Art as Liberation: The Mexican Muralists at the Whitney Museum
Vida Americana is an exhilarating, expansive and immensely satisfying exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum. Like a great and varied feast, this is a show that one must take one’s time to fully appreciate...
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene announces full cast and creative team of ‘Harmony: A New...
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) today announced the entire cast and creative team for Harmony: A New Musical, starring musical theatre icons Chip Zien (Into the Woods, Caroline, Or Change) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, The Phantom of the Opera). Harmony was...
Minneapolis art exhibit depicting Chanukah heroine Judith centers on ‘ghastly’ Caravaggio decapitation
There is no way around the goriness of Caravaggio’s “Judith and Holofernes,” which the Italian artist painted around 1599. The Chanukah heroine (almost a dead ringer for Scarlett Johansson) is midway through chopping the Assyrian general’s...
A Talk about Jewish San Diego at Yiddishland
I’ve been invited by Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, the energetic, entrepreneurial founder of the Yiddish Academic and Arts Association of North America (YAAANA), to discuss Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5 at her Yiddishland site at...
Catch the Holocaust before it disappears
If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...