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East, West Jerusalem unite in third annual festival

“The lineup of soloists joining us this year represents the very foundation of Israeli music,” said maestro Tom Cohen. 

No Despair at Clal: A photography exhibit on the inhabitants of Jerusalem's infamous building

The bad, the good, and the downright ugly coalesce and pulsate there with an obstinacy and determination to survive, and some improbably thrive, despite all the very real existential challenges.

20/04/2025

'Dry Bones' cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen helped Jews to love our faults, not just heroics

The cartoonist, who died on Monday at the age of 87, applied a screwball approach to his view of Israel.

16/04/2025

Holocaust mural depicting Edith Bruck moved to Rome museum following antisemitic vandalism

Despite the vandalism, Bruck maintained a message of peace and forgiveness, stating she holds no resentment or hatred toward those responsible for the act.

Wild and creative: A look at the new two-person exhibition at Jerusalem's Wild Gallery

A new two-person exhibition at the Wild Gallery spans physical, emotional, and political divides.

15/04/2025

A love supreme: The great love affair of Harriet Cohen and Arnold Bax

One of the most passionate and saddest, yet hardly known great historical love affairs was that between an English classical music composer and a Jewish pianist.

By BARRY BORMAN
15/04/2025
Yaakov Kirschen

‘National treasure’ Yaakov Kirschen, Dry Bones cartoonist, dies at 87

The famed cartoonist, known for Dry Bones, has been published by many leading newspapers in both Israel and the Diaspora.

Elephant in the synagogue: Iconography in thriving post-Temple community raises questions

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was insignificant and subject to oppression by the Romans?

By JACOB SIVAK
12/04/2025

Shabbat Hagadol: Receiving the great Sabbath

This year, as Passover begins at the close of Shabbat, the lights of Shabbat and Passover flow into each other as we commemorate our becoming a people.

By MEIRA RAANAN , ESTHER CAMERON
11/04/2025

Jerusalem Cinematheque screens classic films for 50th anniversary

The movies include Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), and more.

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