Culture
Chess: Health of the mind
TPSNov 28, 2019
Numerous countries, including Russia, Canada, Korea, Holland and Ukraine, have adopted an Israeli method for chess education developed and implemented in the coastal...
Afghan Geniza treasures on display
IJN StaffNov 21, 2019
By Zack Rothbart, National Library of Israel Some two dozen, extremely rare treasures from the National Library of Israel’s Afghan Geniza collection are on display to...
Earliest known American Jewish novel published
Penny Schwartz, JTANov 21, 2019
BOSTON — More than a century after her death, Cora Wilburn is having her moment. With the rediscovery and recent publication of her novel Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and...
IJN Chanukah Coloring Contest underway!
IJN StaffNov 19, 2019
At the IJN we love this time of year! The Chanukah Coloring Contest entries arriving daily add a color, brightness and holiday spirit to our regular working day. With...
Wes Anderson meets Agatha Christie in ‘Knives Out’
Rocky Mountain JewNov 01, 2019
If Denver film festival’s opening night movie is anything to go by, area cinephiles are in for plenty of treats during the next 10 days. “Knives Out” is a Wes...
Harold Bloom dreamed in Yiddish
Gabe Friedman, JTAOct 24, 2019
NEW HAVEN — Harold Bloom, the lion of American literary criticism born to a Yiddish-speaking family of Orthodox Jewish immigrants, has died at 89. Bloom, a member of...
Japanese-American artist paints mural of Nazi fighter Hannah Senesh
Josefin Dolsten, JTAOct 10, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY — Hannah Senesh may seem an unlikely motivation for Japanese-born artist Julie Robertson. But the 35-year-old Christian artist, who just spent four days...
Teens unearth 5,000-year-old city near Hadera
JNSOct 10, 2019
A 5,000-year-old metropolis, the largest uncovered in Israel to date, has been excavated near Ein Iron, northeast of Hadera. The city, which dates back to the Early...
In ‘The Spy’, Sacha Baron Cohen stars as agent Eli Cohen
Josefin Dolsten, JTASep 12, 2019
NEW YORK — For “Borat,” his 2006 film, Sacha Baron Cohen went undercover as a made-up Kazakh journalist who travels America and gets unwitting targets to share his...
Architects for Babi Yar Memorial announced
IJN StaffSep 12, 2019
KIEV — Austrian architecture bureau Querkraft Architekten and landscape architects Kieran Fraser Landscape Design, also from Austria, have been selected to design the...
