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Ra’anana’s Center Stage presents ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’
Sam Mendes won the top prize for direction of a feature film, for his World War I epic, 1917.
An offshore patrol vessel built by Israel Shipyards, that was recently purchased by the Honduran Navy, was officially featured in the Central American country.
Har’el used her win for the critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama written by and starring Shia LaBeouf to make a passionate plea for women directors who lost their health insurance.
Hannan Abu-Hussein explores such loaded issues as violence against women and the complexities of Arab-Israeli relations in ‘My Body-Soul-Honor-Property,’ currently at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery.
The couple celebrated the baby’s bris at their home with close friends and immediate family.
“It’s delightful and delicious but I’ve got a big life,” she said.
Jerusalem Post readers send us their snaps and shots from the week.
Cafe Europa introduces lunch, discontinues pinchos and aperitivo
Gershwin music and Marx Brothers comedy resonate and amuse on a stage near you
The exhibition title, “Trespassing,” spells out much of the guiding intent behind the show.
Though I’ve always loved to sing, I was a secret singer for most of my life.
All conscious Jews share the one great tragedy that befell our people in Europe, the Shoah – the catastrophe – in English, the Holocaust.
Jewish wisdom and culture remain an important source of inspiration for Tzur. “I am an atheist but have musician friends in Jerusalem who combine religious life with creativity."
The self-explanatory title of the new video-based exhibition at the institute is Liberation – The First Moments.
Kurdish writer Firat Ceweri visits Israel to speak on writing in minority languages
‘People like to say Russia is a country with an unstable past.’
The play, which was written by Glenn Berenbeim, with lyrics by David Goldsmith and music by Shuki Levi, is set in the Warsaw Ghetto.
The film will be opening in theaters in the US and will be available On Demand starting March 27.
American guitar legend Steve Vai is returning to Israel to reveal more alien guitar secrets.
Grammy-nominated eclectic violinist mixes Bach and Led Zeppelin to sublime effect
The film follows the success of Taika Waititi’s 'Jojo Rabbit,' which received six Oscar nominations.
De Beer, an international artist with many of his works done with community collaboration, invited children on the autism spectrum to participate in an imaginary trip to outer space.
Musical attractions galore will be enhanced by Moshe Shai’s classic photo display.
The 80-page comic Piece of Mind by Guy Lenman and Nimrod Frydman is the second Israeli comic to win at the prestigious event.
The motto of the Havana Club is ‘Grey Hair – we don’t care.’
The former Hollywood producer faces multiple charges, including rape and sexual assault, for which he could get life in prison.
"I won't be doing the voice anymore, unless there's someway to transition it or something," Azaria said in an interview with SlashFilm.
The director is married to Israeli singer/model Daniella Pick, who is pregnant with their first child, and he said he doesn’t just feel at home in Tel Aviv — it really is his home now.
In Zilberman’s retelling, Amir’s road to perdition is paved with real or perceived personal slights and the misguidance of certain rabbis — and even of his own mother.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 class of inductees runs a gamut from shimmering R&B-laced pop and classic ‘90s hip-hop to industrial rock and foursquare glam-rock.
The M.ART festival presents contemporary Russian culture to the Israeli audience
The internationally renowned coloratura soprano-singer, returns to Israel for a single concert as part of her world tour.
Chinese choreographer Yang Liping returns to Israel with a spectacular production of Starvinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring.
Anyone who is involved in the process of divorce will tell you that most couples start off from a place of wanting an amicable divorce, but few end up getting one.
Opened Wednesday and on display through July 5, The innovative exhibit features eye witness drawings made during and immediately after the Holocaust.
Omri Epstein says that the vast majority of classical musicians currently have to muddle through in far less nurturing conditions.
How to go about making a blintz that’s mostly a memory?
Saturday auction will offer 1970s work ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ that was stolen in 1996.
Prof. Cwikel publishes "Mayufa and the Bone Lady", a children's book in English, Arabic and Hebrew on paleontology. The book encourages girls to engage into science.
Arbel Kynan did not disclse the name of the designer.
The Expo Hall showcases 45 of Israel's most impressive start-ups to visiting delegations. More than 75,000 visitors from 56 countries have visited the innovation center since February 2019.
Lionel Richie will perform in Israel for the first time on March 2 in Tel Aviv.
Even before the commercial break was over, social media went into overdrive, with many insisting Needle was right and others doubling down on Israel as the correct answer.
Static and Ben El, the young pop musicians, are credited with having the most-watched Israeli music video in history, with over 54 million views on YouTube
Artistic director Shira Sivan Monsongo and artistic program adviser Eli Greenfeld have put together a decade-marking cast list that culls from a wide range of creative and stylistic intent.
This is a significant step, because no other Israeli feature film has been broadcast on HBO in recent years
Jerusalem-born photographer Eyal Granit returns home with a first-of-its-kind exhibition
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The 18th century porcelains are currently a part of the Art collection of the Royal Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn.
The Shaman of Sounds series presents gifted Berlin-based Polish pianist
Live concerts, free art shows and delicious Eritrean food will be on offer during the two-night celebration.
49-year-old American jazz saxophonist Chris Potter comes over here, to join Israeli counterpart Eli Degibri for a bunch of shows at Tel Aviv’s Shablul jazz venue.
Pianist Boris Berezovsky tops the A-list of international musicians participating in the Eilat Chamber Music Festival.
The Israeli Opera presents a new and exciting production of ‘Idomeneo’ by Mozart.
In 1941, at the height of his fame, Henri Matisse, the internationally recognized painter whose daring use of colors and shape had dazzled the art world, suffered a devastating setback.
From artists who rebuild old-school tattooing machines to drop-ins, the family-oriented event had something for everyone.
Martha Argerich, the soloist of Ravel’s Piano Concerto, displayed South American temperament, if such a thing exists.
Romanian-born Wertheimer exuded a sense of generosity of spirit and delicate emotion. With his flowing gray locks, impressive goatee and rotund girth, he struck a striking figure.
The Shaman of Sounds series in Tel Aviv presents gifted Berlin-based Polish pianist.
Author Elizabeth Wurzel, whose controversial, bestselling 1994 memoir, Prozac Nation, helped make discussing depression and mental illness socially acceptable, is dead at 52.
A rare chance to see an overlooked rock legend in an intimate setting is awaiting the few lucky ones who are able to nab a ticket to his remaining show.
Toda, geveret,” Hebrew for “Thanks, Mrs.” Going back into English, he said, “I love you,” before walking off stage.
Live concerts, free art shows and delicious Eritrean food will be on offer during the two-night celebration.
“Having early access to music education can transform the future of a great learner and affect the trajectory of their entire life,” Broza declared on the project web site.
Yermi Kaplan pays tribute to his musical hero Elton John.
"In recent years, Israel’s coffee culture has become among the most developed in the world,” Uri Federman, CEO of Landwer Cafe, said.
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Low fares on nonstop flights from TLV make ‘the other South of France’ nearly irresistible
While the couple are not Jewish, they were wed in a Jewish wedding in 2015.
There is pizza that you order for the kids when you’re too tired to cook, and then there is La Piedra.
Leading Israeli culinary masters feted at chaotic gala event
Musical focusing on African refugees in Israel debuts this mont
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is the most beguiling thing, a movie that feels entirely truthful even within its own Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Israel’s preeminent Pink Floyd tribute band, Echoes, honors 40th anniversary of landmark album
The Jerusalem Cinematheque unveiled its newly renovated Auditorium 1, its main auditorium, at a festive screening Monday night of the film Les Miserables, a French crime drama by Ladj Ly.
The members of the audience shell out some hard-earned cash and then settle down for an hour or two of good-old clean, insouciant entertainment.
MALI FINNISH, 49 from Ofakim, has six children from the ages of 10 to 30, as well as four grandchildren. She lost her husband, Asher, eight years ago to cancer and has not remarried.
At first sight, Sarah Muchtar’s pictures appear delicate, infused with poetic intimacy and sweet feelings.
In 2003, the Chinese Wudang Kung Fu Troupe was established as a vehicle to research, revive and preserve the roots of Wudang as well as to celebrate the sport.
Unfortunately, the film doesn’t have an ounce of the bite or sex appeal of the 1998 video version of the stage production.
The thematic through-line of the films is one of individualism, heroics or success attained in spite of or against powerful outside forces and systems of control.
Sam Mendes’s 1917 is nothing short of astonishing. Designed as two extraordinarily long, unbroken shots, the film is a stunning feat of cinematography.
For many, the idea of Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, a comedy set in Nazi Germany in which a boy’s imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler, is so repugnant that there is no way they would consider seeing it.
A mythical tale with Harry Potter-level potential
If you’d like to get out for a walk in nature during your hotel stay, then you’re in luck, because the Eilat Mountains have many wonderful trails (just don’t hike when there is flooding).
Having played the role of would-be superhero Bruce Wayne on Fox’s Gotham since he was 12 years old, Mazouz keeps an open mind about the future.
Not only is it all right to ridicule Nazis, but making fun of them can have a positive impact.
The Tel Aviv Cinematheque is putting these movies front and center with its festival, Out Looking In: Israel in the Eyes of Foreign Directors, which runs from January 6-31.
This represents a notable shift in position for the RFC, as the series was partially shot in Jordan.
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