The PHOTO IS:RAEL exhibition takes the star photographer back 20 years to his acclaimed project 'Sleeping by the Mississippi.' In an interview he explains why he always believed he was Jewish – and why he'll never take pictures in Israel
Habima has suffered from a chronic crisis for the last 30 years. But a debt of $22 million, actors who aren't being paid and criticism against the artistic quality of its productions threaten its future
Plus, The Israel Association of Writers in English presents an original one-act play in Ramat Gan and Voices Israel launches its 45th poetry anthology in Netanya
In unconventional exhibit, the public is encouraged not only to touch the displays but to converse with Stella Levi, a 96-year-old Jewish native of the island that was occupied by the Nazis in World War II
Locals say Qirmize Qesebe’s main drag is the wealthiest kilometer in the world and neighboring cities look on enviously
Raanan Rein’s 2015 book 'Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina' tells a special story about how Jews carved out a new life. It’s finally coming out in Hebrew
A new exhibition is showcasing 18 works by the influential Jewish painter, who also left a mark on Israeli artists – some of whose works are on display
Art Source, the online platform created by two enterprising Tel Aviv curators, offers a whole new art-purchasing experience geared to our global, social media times
In 'Ziara,' featuring local and international artists brought together by their shared roots, curator Amit Hai Cohen aims to harness the force of the 'global social network' of Moroccan-ness to show the modern face of this North African culture
A Holocaust comedy seems like a difficult thing to pull off, but if anybody can, it probably is Maori Jew Taika Waititi
Haifa had planned two performances of children's play, one for girls and one for boys
A new book examines how, nearly a century ago, a small town in upstate New York saw an actual blood libel, where the residents were ready to entertain the notion that their Jewish neighbors had kidnapped a young child for a ritual sacrifice
Starring Selena Gomez and Timothée Chalamet, ‘A Rainy Day in New York’ won’t be shown in the U.S. because of the sexual abuse allegations against its famed director. Good thing; it's terrible
These series didn't get the attention they deserve, but now's the time to repent
Like most artists in the Golden Age of comic books, the three creators of Batman’s archnemesis were all Jewish — but good luck working out which of them came up with the original idea for the character
Artist Dor Zlekha Levy never saw Lebanon's magnificent Magen Avraham Synagogue, but recreated a virtual version of it in his 3D exhibit
'It’s hard for me to be in a place where there is little Palestinian creativity,' says Shlomi Elkabetz, who plays a Shin Bet security service investigator in HBO's controversial series which managed to anger Israel's prime minister
Samuel Solnik, a Polish-born dentist living in Jerusalem in the 1940s, claimed descent from King David and tried to convince his fellow Jews and the world powers that his family should sit on the ancient throne of Israel
Two young autodidacts are taking fashion design into all-new directions: Or Yair Bitton, a soccer-loving ‘fashion-show freak,’ and synthetic-fabric fan Tommy Ben Simone
Celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas growing up was my norm, but discussing my family interfaith traditions sometimes made me feel isolated
After a Hollywood debut at age 15, Sarah Steele took a step back, went to college and jump-started her acting career. Fifteen years later, a serious star, she's glad to be 'portraying self-confident women.' On her first trip to Israel she talks about #MeToo and her pro-Israel TV persona
The Jerusalem Ballet is paying tribute to Franceska Mann, a Polish dancer who put on her last performance en route to Auschwitz’s gas chamber
Is it any wonder that a country that is increasingly compared to Sparta has an obsession with muscles and being tough?
A new documentary, 'Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles,' digs into the show’s origin story and much more
James Simon's wanted his gifts to be displayed in their own room in Berlin for 100 years. Then the city's museums became part of the Nazi machine and its anti-Semitic madness
National Library at last presents never-before-seen manuscripts by the renowned Czech author, including journals and notebooks featuring words in Hebrew
It’s not just Jews with roots here who are drawn to newly restored Jewish heritage sites. A growing number of Morocco’s Muslims are also intrigued by and even proud of that history.
In its first performance in Israel, 'Yiddish Glory' played the lost songs of lost Jews in a nearly lost language
Historian Uri Kupferschmidt devoted years to uncovering the story of his grandfather, a Dutch maker of stringed instruments who was murdered in the Holocaust
In a lecture before his death that’s now been published as a book, Amos Oz sums up his world view, and explains why he is still optimistic