Culture Israel

Amit Travolsi - Musician and Soon-to-be IDF Combat Soldier

Yoni Kempinski met the young singer who will be joining an IDF combat unit a few days after he...

Poll Shows Youth Leans Rightward

Study finds that 56% of youths think Arabs should not serve in Knesset; 48% would refuse orders to...

Biden arrives in Jordan for talks with king

US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Jordan on Thursday for talks with key regional ally King...

Dr. Hagi Ben-Artzi: Education is the Way to Strengthen...

Ben-Artzi, activist and lecturer on Jewish history and philosophy: Strengthen young people's...

Review: A Day At The Racists

At the Finborough, Anders Lustgarten's A Day at the Racists is the best new political play of...

Review: Moonfleece

Two new plays about the BNP opened this week and with them so did the old debate about whether any...

Review: Green Zone

I had a sense of what to expect from Green Zone because I had seen director Paul Greengrass's 2002...

GAZA STRIP: Hamas 'deports' British journalist accused of...

Hamas has freed a British journalist suspected of spying for Israel, saying the journalist and...

Interview: Jonathan Safran Foer

The menu in the restaurant where Jonathan Safran Foer and I are due to meet in five minutes' time...

SUM: Forty tales from the afterlives

By David Eagleman Canongate, £9.99 Orthodox Jews believe in the afterlife. Aggressive atheists like...

Legacy mayhem

Take a mournful shlemiel from Austria. Drop him in Venezuela where he has gone to collect an...

I played Chopin as they sent my family to their deaths

At the age of 106, the concert pianist Alice Sommer Herz is an international celebrity. But despite...

How Penn's camera stole celebrity souls

Irving Penn's career lasted 60 years. But his photographs will last forever. The National Portrait...

King Abdullah, Medvedev to discuss Mideast

Jordan's King Abdullah II will discuss arms contracts and the Middle East peace process with...

PJA Event at Skirball Cultural Center

JewishJournal.com taped "A View from the Mountaintop: A Celebration of Civil Rights Event" which...