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Jews represent at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Gabe Friedman, JTAFeb 01, 2018
NEW YORK — The world is about to revolve around Pyeongchang, a mountainous county in the northern half of South Korea, for the upcoming Winter Olympics. Jewish fans...
Jewish-themed movies among 2018 Oscar shortlist
Tom Tugend, JTAJan 25, 2018
LOS ANGELES — With the Academy Awards on the horizon, there is no shortage of high-quality films to see in theaters and on the small screen. Here are five of
Nancy Spielberg, Choices speaker, likes ‘unsung heroes’
Shana GoldbergJan 18, 2018
Nancy Spielberg interviewed the US Armed Forces veterans who helped found the air force of the State of Israel, they didn’t brag about their achievements. “I had to...
Appelfeld was a writer of great elusiveness, paradox
JTAJan 11, 2018
By Thane Rosenbaum Arguably the world’s greatest writer of fiction about the world’s foremost nonfiction atrocity, the Holocaust, died Jan. 4 in Israel. Aharon...
Trailblazing bourbon-style whiskey in Israel
JNSJan 04, 2018
By Eliana Rudee Noam Cohen and Alan Cohl are confident that their new breed of whiskey will echo Israel’s success in making the desert bloom. They are creating...
Paradox: Agnon better in English
Andrew Friedman, TPSDec 21, 2017
Out of all the experiences I have had over the 23 years I have lived in Israel, a recent excursion to a Steimatzky bookseller on Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim Street may...
Meet the Nazareth Tigers, Israel’s Arab ice hockey team
JTADec 14, 2017
By Larry Luxner NAZARETH, Israel — On a recent Friday evening, as prayers from nearby mosques blared over loudspeakers and the sun dipped below a horizon dotted with...
Happy Chanukah! IJN Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest Winners 2017
IJN StaffDec 07, 2017
CHANUKAH 5778 Creativity, color, content! A great deal of creativity and cleverness shone through in this year’s entries. The young artists used a variety of media,...
Black basketball players love Israel
Gabe Friedman, JTADec 07, 2017
CHANUKAH 5778SECTION A PAGE 18 NEW YORK — Chris Watson played four standout years of basketball at Niagara University, where he became one of the upstate New York...
A Haggadah for Chanukah
Andrea JacobsNov 30, 2017
CHANUKAH GIFT GUIDE 2017 Books, whether Shakespearean sonnets or historical panoramas, make great Chanukah gifts. Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider’s The Light That Unites: A...
