Hilma af Klint and the birth of abstract art
The Guggenheim’s strange and wonderful exhibition of Hilma af Klint’s groundbreaking, yet largely unknown body of abstract art is an important event – one that challenges us to not only rethink the early history...
Siberian Exile by Julija Sukys
By the end of the Holocaust, Lithuania suffered one of the highest percentages of Jewish deaths in all of Europe. Before the war, 168, 000 Jews lived there, of which 83 per cent were...
Israeli attractions: Inside the Baram Synagogue
Close to the Lebanese border in the upper Galilee is the Baram National Park, located on the Sasa-Bar’am road route 899, which is home to the Baram synagogue. Synagogue remains throughout the Galilee bear witness...
A Mayzl (The Mouse), song based on “El Ratón Vaquero”, by Cri Cri
A beautiful children’s song performed in Yiddish by Bobe Adina.
The Mouse - A mouse got into the house of another and makes believe he is the boss. The owner is uncomfortable to have him...
“A Ketzl” (The Cat), song based on “El Gato de Barrio”, by Cri Cri
A beautiful children’s song performed in Yiddish by Bobe Adina.
The Cat - This cat lives happily in a neighborhood he knows well. He never wants to leave as he can describe all its inhabitants ...
Friends of Zion Museum sheds light on non-Jewish Zionist heroes
In today’s day and age, with anti-Israel sentiments floating ubiquitously through the press and social media, many Jewish Zionists are forced to adopt an us-against-the-world mentality, believing that they are the only group who...
Jews against themselves by Edward Alexander
Every Anglophone reader, Jew and non-Jew, owes it to him or herself to read Jews against Themselves. And every non-Anglophone country that aspires either to establish or maintain democracy owes itself a good translation. Rarely...
Listen to ‘Despacito,’ Justin Bieber and Luis Fonsi’s megahit song, in Hebrew
(JTA) — Attention Jews who love to dance to Latin grooves: There is a Hebrew version of “Despacito,” the first mostly Spanish-language song to become a number one Billboard chart hit in 20 years.
“Despacito,”...
Jewish ‘Bubbies’ do matchmaking, share their dating wisdom in new TV show
In each episode of “Bubbies Know Best,” which premiered Feb. 11 on JLTV, S.J. Mendelson, Linda Rich, and Bunny Gibson interview three potential suitors before picking one to go on a date with their...
Grigory Kanovich’s Remarkable Love Song For a Lithuanian Shtetl
Thanks to the hard work of his literary admirers, an English translation of Grigory Kanovich’s autobiographical novel “Shtetl Love Song” has finally appeared.
The novel was released by a boutique British publishing house, Noir Press,...