Tag: Jewish & Israeli Culture

How often have you heard about discoveries of artifacts hidden in an attic for decades that turn out to be gems of historical significance? Multiply that on a grand scale and that’s what happened...

When I was a child, my grandmother called me her “little shiksa.” In Yiddish, shiksa means a non-Jewish woman. This was meant as a compliment. My grandmother was a glamorous woman who knew a thing or two...

The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has received the world’s most extensive collection of Yemenite Jewish manuscripts. The 60,000 items in the collection include notable pieces such as Judeo-Yemenite renditions of works by Maimonides...

With the realization that the social-media pen is mighty like the sword, the nonprofit organization Yalla Israel focuses on sending social-media influencers to Israel to experience the Jewish state firsthand and, it hopes, to portray Israel...

Israel has long presented itself as the guarantor of Jewish security—but can we really say that this is true in the wake of Oct. 7? Moreover, are we even sure that it was true before? And...

After World War II, Palestine Symphony Orchestra musicians who wanted nothing to do with their German-made instruments offered Moshe Weinstein an ultimatum. Weinstein had trained as a violinist and violin maker in Vilnius, then part...

Gal Gadot's first Hollywood audition was for the role of a James Bond girl in "Quantum of Solace," alongside Daniel Craig. Although Gadot did not get the role, now, a decade and a half...

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” now in theaters, explores the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—the so-called “father” of the atomic bomb and one of history’s most famous and controversial Jews. One of the authors of the...

The tombs of three celebrated 17th- and 18th-century rabbis—Jacob Ben Malca, Hasday Almosnino and Jacob Marrache—have been rediscovered after more than 60 years at a cemetery in Tétouan in northern Morocco. Renewed knowledge of the...

A lavish banquet held at the Psagot Winery, located in Samaria north of Jerusalem, brought participants back to the Second Temple era this week. The unique dinner, an initiative of the Binyamin Regional Council's Department...