Multi-sensory exhibit explores Yemenite Jewish culture and history
A new exhibition in New York City invites the public to see, smell, listen and touch artifacts and items pertaining to the rich Yemenite Jewish culture.
The American Sephardi Federation’s “The Teimani Experience” is a...
The future of Israel’s haredi population: Is it growing or shrinking?
If there is any other contentious issue in Israel that does not deal with politics or the Palestinians, it is the internal demographic issue and concern by some that the haredi sector will grow to more...
Surveys explore Jewish life in South Florida, with some surprising results
How many Jews live in South Florida? Where do they come from? And what do they need?
Two new surveys, completed in May, are seeking answers to these questions and will determine whether South Florida...
Viral video star is an Orthodox education pioneer
Did you see a viral video last month on Yom Hazikaron of a yeshivah teacher leading an inspirational discussion about modern Israel with haredi high school students? So did everyone else in the Jewish Facebook world.
But who is the instructor...
Play ball! In Israel! With some hard-hitting American Jews
There is a moving, somewhat entertaining scene in the recently released film “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel” where Moshe Abutbul, the mayor of Bet Shemesh, invites the 10 visiting American baseball players...
Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai signs international distribution deal for ‘Toy’
Netta Barzilai, the Israeli winner of Eurovision 2018, has signed a global distribution deal for her winning song, “Toy.”
The deal was signed with S-Curve/BMG.
“Toy” is officially the most viewed song of all time on...
Documentary on San Diego Jewry very well done
SAN DIEGO – Isaac Artenstein’s newest documentary, To The Ends of the Earth: A Portrait of Jewish San Diego, which is on sale at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park, tapped present and past...
Philip Roth, renowned American Jewish novelist, dies at 85
Philip Roth, influential Jewish writer, Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote about male lust, Jewish life and the United States, died on Tuesday night in New York, at a Manhattan hospital from congestive heart failure on...
The extraordinary life of Bernard Lewis, 1916‒2018
When the American monthly magazine Commentary published the Princeton University professor’s article titled “The Return of Islam” in January 1976, its readers were shocked: His essay foresaw—before the Islamic revolution and the reign of the ayatollahs...
Israel rocks, according to bassist Dave Rublin
In 2012, Dave Rublin, 31, was a struggling New York musician with the long hair, tattoos and a restaurant job to prove it. His Jewish mother in New Jersey played her part, worrying about...