Jewish book festival spans mystery to memoir
Have cooling temperatures left you longing to curl up with a good book?
The Northwest Ohio Jewish Book Festival has a few recommendations.
Like, say, Beverly Gray’s Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How ‘The Graduate’ Became the Touchstone...
Warner Brothers’ dominates Comic- Con 2018
SAN DIEGO — Because three of the biggest pop culture staples, Marvel, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones, were absent this year, the recently concluded Comic-Con felt much quieter and much less abuzz with...
Big splash at Caesarea Harbor with new Crusader market, upcoming visitor’s center
New promenade walls and a 700-year-old Crusader market at the Caesarea Harbor were unveiled on June 10 in Caesarea National Park in the presence of Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, and various representatives from funding...
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...
Virtual museum on Jewish-Canadian Holocaust refugees opens
The varying experiences of desperate European Jews who made their way to Canada between 1933 and 1955 are highlighted in a new online resource produced by the Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM).
Building New Lives is a...
Israeli attractions: Givat Sher, the Judean lowhills
In the town of Modi’in, which is situated between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, lies Givat Sher (“The hill of Sher”).
At the base of the hill to the east are the remains of Um-el-Umdan, one...
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
Nestled at the base of a small hill sloping down from Richmond Road is the Maltz Museum of Jewish History, the single-story structure of glistening glass and golden Jerusalem limestone complementing the graceful domes of Temple-Tifereth Israel rising up from behind. Once...