Culture
Dead Sea Scrolls rotated
Andrea JacobsJun 14, 2018
It’s closing time at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on June 5. Volunteers exiting out of the service entrance deposit their keys and head home with the...
Mahane Yehuda: Hip hangout by night
Ben Sales, JTAMay 31, 2018
JERUSALEM — In another life, Kobi Frig would have been sitting behind vats of spices in Jerusalem’s bustling, labyrinthine Mahane Yehuda market, hawking paprika,...
New Han Solo is a nice Jewish boy from LA
Gabe Friedman, JTAMay 24, 2018
LOS ANGELES — “Star Wars” fans are eagerly awaiting the franchise’s latest film, “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” As its title suggests, the flick focuses on Han...
The story of Sobibor
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 17, 2018
MOSCOW — A decade ago, relatively few people in Russia even knew about the existence of Sobibor, the smallest-scale facility of the six killing centers that the Nazis...
In the footsteps of Leonard Cohen
Ben Harris, JTAMay 03, 2018
MONTREAL — Just inside the gate of the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue off Boulevard du Mont Royal, a gravestone bears an unusual Star of David, the sharp angles of its two...
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary gift
Penny Schwartz, JTAApr 19, 2018
NEW YORK — From his birthplace in Boston to New York, Berlin, South Africa, China and Israel, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger-than-life conductor, pianist,...
‘GI Jews’ in WW II: the anti-Semitism they faced
Curt Schleier, JTAApr 12, 2018
NEW YORK — “GI Jews: Jewish Americans in WW II” begins as many Holocaust documentaries do, with a history of the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany mixed with...
Barbie immortalizes fashion guru Apfel
JTAMar 22, 2018
Mattel toys has announced a new Barbie doll honoring Iris Apfel, the 96-year-old Jewish fashion guru. The Apfel doll wears the same green Gucci suit and jewels that the...
Israel’s latest social media sensation is a Togolese Christian
TPSMar 15, 2018
By Mara Vigevani As he walks in downtown Tel Aviv near the trendy Sarona market, Stephane Legar is stopped time after time by adoring teens asking him to pose for a...
Exhibit explores ‘Jews in Space’
JNSMar 08, 2018
By Shiryn Solny A new exhibition debuted in New York last week that explores the connection between Jews and something outside of our own world: outer space. At the...
