Culture
Coming soon…a Torah emoji?
Marcy Oster, JTAJun 06, 2019
JERUSALEM — Designing a new emoji is not simple. Sefaria, the online free Jewish library, has found this out in recent months. The organization wanted to reach more...
New photography book depicts women in IDF combat units
Josefin Dolsten, JTAMay 30, 2019
JERUSALEM — Women served as combat soldiers during Israel’s War of Independence, when the fledgling country needed all the fighters it could get. But following the...
L’Chaim! Israeli scientists brew beer with 5,000-year-old Egyptian yeast
Special to the IJNMay 23, 2019
JERUSALEM — What kind of beer did Pharaoh drink? In ancient times, beer was an important ingredient in people’s daily diet. Great powers were attributed to beer in...
Did Maimonides invent pizza?
JTAMay 16, 2019
By Henry Abramson FERRARA, Italy — In 1983, the Italian-Israeli professor Sandra Debenedetti Stow stunned the scholarly world with an explosive article that proposed...
Peggy Guggenheim in Israel
JTAMay 09, 2019
By Karen Chernick TEL AVIV — In 1952, Israel had its third showing at the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most prestigious art shows, with an exhibition of three...
Local Holocaust survivors gather for concert
Andrea JacobsApr 25, 2019
People queue outside the Mizel Museum Wednesday evening, April 17, for “Survivors Sing,” Denver’s first Holocaust survivors concert. Solemnity and cordiality mix...
Meet Max the Matzah
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 18, 2019
PASSOVER 5779 SECTION A PAGE 2 Note: Max the Matzah appears on the front page of the IJN Passover 5779 edition, published April 19, 2019. AMSTERDAM — Anywhere else in...
Anne Frank adaptation told through cat’s eyes
Shana GoldbergApr 18, 2019
PASSOVER 5779 SECTION C PAGE 13 of the oldest pieces of Holocaust literature, and perhaps one of the most powerful and enduring, is a diary written by a teenage girl....
In Jerusalem, a photographic history of Temple Mount
JNSApr 04, 2019
By Judy Lash Balint A few years ago, The New York Times called Temple Mount “the world’s most contested piece of real estate.” This week, a new exhibit of...
Sorkin revives ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Curt Schleier, JTAMar 28, 2019
NEW YORK — Aaron Sorkin gets that the question is a joke and, no, he responds, he didn’t tackle a stage version of “To Kill A Mockingbird” because “Gone With...
