Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Shawn Green to play for Israel in World Baseball Classic
by Lee Barnathan, Contributing Writer
Shawn Green enjoyed quite the professional baseball career: In 13 seasons, he clubbed 328 home runs, drove in 1,070 runs, batted .283, was a two-time. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Garcia Lorca’s art, death inspire genre-expanding opera
by Jonathan Maseng, Contributing Writer
When Federico Garcia Lorca was a child, long before his ascension to the heights of Spanish literary circles, he idolized his mother’s gift for. . .
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Israel fails to qualify for Eurovision finals
JTA
Israel failed to advance to the Eurovision Song Competition final for the second consecutive year.. . .
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Bar Refaeli voted the hottest on Maxim Hot 100
JTA
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli was voted the world's most beautiful woman on the annual Maxim Hot 100 list.. . .
Friday, May 18, 2012
Israeli football team takes on Americans
JTA
Israel’s national American football team took the field this week for the first time against an American opponent -- falling 49-6 to the Maranatha. . .
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Intro to Israel considers what ‘Matters’
By Jonathan Kirsch
Much heated conversation is conducted in these pages and elsewhere in the media about Israel. We debate every aspect of Israel’s present and future. . .
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A conversation with Anne Frank’s cousin
By Tom Tugend
Generations of readers, theater patrons and movie goers have been touched and moved by “The Diary of Anne Frank,” but perhaps no one was more. . .
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Filmmaker writes from experience for post-Holocaust drama ‘Mighty Fine’
By Naomi Pfefferman
Filmmaker Debbie Goodstein has taken to heart the adage, “Write what you know.” Her 1989 Holocaust documentary, “Voices From the Attic,”. . .
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Browns sign Jewish offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz
JTA
Offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz, a second-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns, signed a four-year, $5.17 million contract with the team.. . .
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Around the pole in Israel
JointMedia News Service
Pole dancing as a modern sport connects the world of dance—jazz, ballet and cabaret—with acrobatic exercise. The pole serves as the base to. . .
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Love letter to Naples, warts and all
By Jonathan Kirsch
For me, no genre of literature is quite as enchanting or enriching as the travel memoir. Indeed, two of the titles on my own shortlist of favorite. . .
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Choreographer debuts morality tale on dangers of jealousy
by Jonathan Maseng, Contributing Writer
Barak Marshall didn’t want to be a dancer. A lawyer, a singer, a scholar — anything but a dancer. “It was what she did,” Marshall says of his. . .
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
TV for dogs reaches prime time
by Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
Bark if you love DogTV. The new made-in-Israel U.S. cable channel is scientifically programmed to keep pooches stimulated, happy and comforted when. . .
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author Maurice Sendak dies at 83
JTA
Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," has died.. . .
Monday, May 7, 2012
Tel Aviv’s Docaviv film festival tackles tough issues with style
by Sara Miller, contributing writer
Docaviv, Tel Aviv’s annual international documentary film festival, kicked off on May 3 with a moonlit ceremony at the newly renovated seafront. . .
Monday, May 7, 2012
Tigers’ Young returns to field, says he’s sorry for rant
JTA
Detroit Tigers outfielder Delmon Young apologized for his anti-Semitic rant and attack in New York following the lifting of his weeklong suspension.. . .
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Child Holocaust survivors speak up for those who can’t
By Jonathan Kirsch
Only a precious remnant of Holocaust survivors is alive today, and many of them were just children when they went into hiding or ended up behind. . .
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Argentine soccer club loses points due to anti-Semitic fans
JTA
An Argentine soccer club lost points after a penalty was leveled due to anti-Semitic chants made by its fans.. . .
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
MLB suspends Delmon Young over anti-Semitic altercation
JTA
Delmon Young, the Detroit Tigers outfielder arrested in New York for allegedly attacking a group of men and making anti-Semitic remarks, was. . .
Monday, April 30, 2012
First person: For Jewish transsexual teaching at Yeshiva University, no easy path to being a daughter
by Joy Ladin, JTA
If your mother has never seen your face -- if you have never had a face to be seen -- if, in a sense, you have never been born -- do you have a. . .
Sunday, April 29, 2012
A.J. Jacob’s belly humor won’t hurt you
by Steve Weinberg
A.J. Jacobs waits until the fifth page of his newest book, “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection” (Simon & Schuster:. . .
Friday, April 27, 2012
Edgar Keret: All grown up
by Elaine Margolin
Yesterday at the ophthalmologist I realized my eye doctor was looking deep into my eyes but couldn’t see me; not at all. My husband compulsively. . .
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Obama adds Dylan, Albright to Freedom Medal recipients
JTA
Madeleine Albright, Bob Dylan, Shimon Peres and Jan Karski will be among 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.. . .
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
‘Modigliani’ paints moving portrait of tormented artist
by Iris Mann
An artist’s angst over personal demons and the vicissitudes of the marketplace is depicted with a mixture of humor and pathos in the upcoming. . .
