Leisure
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...
Ronaldinho opens soccer academy in Israel
JTAMay 10, 2018
The Brazilian soccer idol Ronaldinho has launched a soccer school in Israel aimed at both native-born and immigrant children and youths. Ronaldinho, who was in Israel...
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...
Giro champion Gino Bartali will be posthumously awarded Israeli citizenship
TPSApr 30, 2018
By Mira Vigevani Gino Bartali, three-time winner of the Giro d’Italia and twice of the Tour de France in the 1930s, will be posthumously awarded Israeli citizenship...
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...
Winning Alex Bregman looks forward to Astros’ season
Hillel Kuttler, JTAApr 05, 2018
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Sitting on a couch near his locker at the Houston Astros’ spring training facility here in mid-March, Alex Bregman is reflecting about an...
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...
