Russian book fair honors Israel-themed tome
An Israel-themed book was chosen as one of Russia\’s top books of the year for the first time in an annual book conference\’s history.
An Israel-themed book was chosen as one of Russia\’s top books of the year for the first time in an annual book conference\’s history.
Tel Aviv\’s recently expanded modern art museum, with its dazzling new building no less an attraction than the art showcased inside, has given a home to hundreds of displaced Israeli works and helped boost the city\’s cultural scene.
The name of a ride at a South Florida fair is offending some Holocaust survivors living in the area.
The Latin band Ozomatli is rocking out on the flatbed of a truck parked on a closed-down Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a Saturday in early November, and the band is playing for a motley group of aging and 20-something hippies, union workers and even some Jews from the Westside, all of whom are dancing in the street a few hundred yards from the Occupy L.A. encampment on the grounds outside City Hall.
From novels to memoirs to movie reviews, and much in between, here are a few standout books for Chanukah gift giving.
The Anti-Defamation League has called on an Indian television network to change the name of a new soap opera with Hitler in the title.
A Melbourne-based Israeli dance group refused to perform at a folk festival to protest the organizers\’ decision to remove references to their being Israeli.
A scoop of Ben & Jerry’s may taste like heaven, and for company co-founder Jerry Greenfield, the business of making ice cream has a spiritual side as well.
Ryan Braun, the slugging outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers, became the first Jewish Most Valuable Player in nearly five decades.