How This Ex-Orthodox Yeshiva Student Became a Star In the Arab Music World
Ziv Yehezkel is a man full of contradictions. He is at once a deeply religious Jewish man, but also a zealous lover of Arabic music.
The soloist of Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, the 31 year-old...
Nothing fancy — just ‘love’ at Kosherfest 2017
Kosherfest is decidedly not a gourmet festival or fancy food show. No one is talking sous vide cooking, and there’s no pulled sugar to be found. Best-in-show this year was a frozen deep-dish pizza...
For the first time ever, Miss Germany could be a Jew
"In a country where Jews experienced unbelievable horrors, for the first time in history there will be a Jewish contestant for Miss Germany,” said Tamar Morali, who seeks to be the first-ever Jewish Miss...
In Cote D’Ivoire, A Jewish Community Is Born
The African nation of Cote D’Ivoire did not have a historic Jewish community. But now, the West African country, known by some as Ivory Coast, is seeing several dozens of its citizens choose to...
Pakistan’s ‘last Jew’ Fishel Benkhald complains of anti-Semitism
Dubbed "Pakistan's last Jew," Fishel Benkhald, a resident of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, was originally registered as a Muslim and was named Faisal Khalid. After several months of bureaucratic struggle and paperwork,...
Parashat Vayeitzei וַיֵּצֵא
Yaakov is forced to leave his parents' house in the city of Be’er Shevea ("באר שבע"), and go towards Rivkah’s wicked brother, Lavan’s house in Charan ("חרן"). The name Charan means anger, alluding to...
Lithuania, Not Israel, Embraces Surrealist Shmuel Bak with Dedicated State Museum
The Shmuel Bak Museum is now open for visitors, declares the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum’s website in all-caps, celebrating the city’s other great talent, a post modernist and surrealist painter who was a...
Meet The Flash, the latest Jewish superhero
The list of Jewish superheroes isn’t especially long. There’s Batwoman, The Fantastic Four’s Thing, X-men antihero Magneto and a handful of less well-known characters*.
But now you can add a top flight hero to the...
New book on history of the Bulgarian Jews to be published in March 2018
A book entitled “Bulgarian Jews: Living History” is to be published in March 2018 as the country marks the 75th anniversary of the prevention of the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to the death camps...
Faith in Fashion, a Conference For Chic and Modest Jewish Women, Convenes in New...
For the last couple of years, the fashion world has been seeing the rise and reign of “modest fashion.” Jewish and Muslim-founded brands, as well as fashion giants like Dior and Valentino, have been...