Jerusalem current events

Jerusalem highlights: Week of September 17-23

Don't know what to do in Jerusalem the coming week? Here's a list of suggestions.

 FOLK SINGER Sandy Cash brings the tunes on Wednesday.
 Gil Shwed at The Global Investment Forum (June 2021)

Jerusalem Post Conferences

BEITAR JERUSALEM players celebrate with Eliran Atar (center) after the forward scored on a 26th-minute penalty in his first match with the club to help the yellow-and-black beat Maccabi Haifa 2-0 last night in Israel Premier League action at Teddy Stadium

This week in Jerusalem - A round-up of city affairs

Winter Lights festival at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens.

Jerusalem Botanical Garden to light up for Winter Lights festival


Jerusalem School of Rock - a safe hang out for Israel's teens

Offering a positive option for youth to entertain themselves

YOUNG MEN perform on a street in the center of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem and corona: Eight months later

Many small- and medium-sized businesses are linked to the tourism industry, which is nonexistent for now and for the foreseeable future.

POLICE STOP cars at a roadblock at the entrance to Jerusalem on October 4, amid the lockdown

This week in Jerusalem - A round-up of city affairs

What has been going on in Israel's capital this week?

BEIT HAKEREM school building: Gone to the dogs.

Sixth annual Jerusalem Jazz Festival to go online amid coronavirus

For tickets and more information: www.jerusalemjazzfestival.org.il

ALON LOTRINGER and Victoria Hanna are two of the artists featured at this year’s Jerusalem Jazz Festival.

Grapevine: Busy mayor

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion was one one of the few Israelis attending the dinner that President Reuven Rivlin hosted for foreign dignitaries attending the conference on Holocaust and antisemitism.

MAYOR MOSHE LION has gifted Jerusalemites of all stripes with new places to park themselves.

GRAPEVINE: Beyond the bonfires

Movers and shakers, how Israeli people shape the places of this country.

US Ambassador David Friedman [C] Rabbi Israel Meir Lau [L] and Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog [R].

THIS WEEK IN JERUSALEM: Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

The Jerusalem municipality is finalizing preparations for the June 6 Pride March.

A CHILD reacts to some Israel Museum relics.

Grapevine: Saving for ‘shmura’

MATZAH, the bread of affliction, should cost very little, but matzah shmura is a different story altogether.

Matza Shmora

A happening Hanukkah - What to do over the eight-day holiday in Jerusalem

Keeping your kids entertained during the eight days of Hanukkah can be a challenge, but I have some great ideas your whole family will enjoy in Jerusalem.

‘The Mystery of the Hidden Pitcher’ at the Bible Lands Museum

Sacred by nature

In case you feel the need for another reason for the sacredness epithet, the forthcoming installment of the annual Mekudeshet (Sanctified) Festival might do the trick for you.

THE ONE Night in Atlantis listening spectacle takes place on August 9 as part of Jerusalem’s Mekudeshet Festival

THIS WEEK IN JERUSALEM: Lights and colors

Mads Christensen’s “Cathedral of Mirrors” will be displayed at this week’s annual International Festival of Light