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Many locals boycotted the cinema because unmarried men and women drank alcohol and even slept together in the guest house that was attached to Cinema Jenin.
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'Anti-Semitism, hatred, internal strife are all ancient elements of our historical destiny – always problematic. […] We must therefore look for a way out; we must be brave to remain within our destiny. If Judaism is a tragedy, let us live it.'
The film Hate Spaces dissects the issue of gross indifference towards American Jews on universities nation-wide.
The band was forced to postpone their Haifa concert due to the fires.
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"Superman and Captain America can be seen as Jewish creators imagining how they'd be awesome and powerful if they were white."
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When it opens officially, in early 2017, the museum's permanent collection will focus on the "Holocaust by Bullets."
If you ask “What are you” – you destroy the world. If you ask “Who are you?” you build the world…” (Shlomo Carlebach).
Passage to Israel is an ethereal, upliftingly soulful work of art.
Defying leftwing criticism and protests, Habima played in Kiryat Arba.
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The museum depicts Arafat’s role in the rise of Palestinian nationalism as a reaction to the arrival of Zionism.
Jewish pirates aren't more interesting Jews; Jewish pirates make pirates more interesting, says the filmmaker.
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Chareau, whose wife Dollie Dyte Chareau was Jewish and whose mother came from a Sephardic family, fled to the United States in 1940.
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Bernard Shapero said that “the whole exhibition shows the positive side of Judaism. There’s no Holocaust material or anti-Semitic material, which forms a large part of collecting in this field.”
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Rudolf-August Oetker was the grandson of Dr. August Oetker. He ran the company from 1944 to 1981.
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My Genizah is a hard-edge, personal commentary on the making of the Jewish archive from the documents of the Genizah.
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Bidders are required to agree to place the object on public exhibition, as per a stipulation by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which designated the artifact a "National Treasure" of Israel.
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Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) issued a directive whereby theatrical institutions that perform in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria will receive a 10% increase in their state budgets.
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Einstein wrote: "I am now very happy because I finally solved to my total satisfaction, after immensely intensive work, my gravitation-electricity problem. This, in a way, concludes my life’s work."
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According to the suit, the original, Jewish owner sold the painting under duress for $13,200, when he and his wife were in Paris, to pay for their escape to Brazil.
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Minister Miri Regev said “the uncovering of these finds joins a long list of discoveries that enlighten us about our historic past, a past that is manifested in our country’s soil and in the writings of the Book of Books.”
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A kind of Jerusalem fever gripped much of the world from about 1000 to 1400. Across three continents, thousands made their way to the Holy City—from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions alike.
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In today's digital age, such film footage is particularly compelling and stirring, granting us a glimpse into a living memory of a world that was – and is no longer.
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The exhibition uses the golem figure to examine topics like creativity, creation, power, and redemption.
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Lady Meyer was a socially concerned philanthropist supporting working class women, underprivileged families, and women’s suffrage.
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Itzhak Perlman received the $1 million Genesis Prize for his outstanding achievement as a classical musician and for his dedication to improving the lives of people with disabilities.
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The 25,000 Tel Avivian dogs enjoy 70 public dog parks, that's 1.3 dog parks for every 250 acres.
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WAG is actually showing two Jewish artists who dabble in the surreal, Warkov and Marc Chagall.
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Painter Jonasz Stern left a permanent mark on the Polish art of the 20th century.
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German Culture Minister Monika Grütters told the New York Times last March that a Jewish member on the committee “would be the only voice who would be prejudiced.”
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Bohm escaped Nazism in 1939 when she was sent to England to finish her schooling, armed with a Leica camera handed to her by her father as she was departing.
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Playtika's games are played daily by more than 6 million people in 190 countries, in 12 languages and on more than 10 platforms.
Magen David Adom Warns Israeli Public of ‘Pokémon Go’ Dangers
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Louis C.K. noted that the word “Jew” is “the only word that is the polite thing to call a group of people and the slur for the same group."
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The last straw in Galatz's elitist load was the station's movie critic Gidi Orsher who posted a particularly offensive Facebook status in which he described Jews from Muslim countries as superstitious savages.
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"...this artistic tactic poses with feigned innocence in the likeness of a 19th-century pilgrimage, in which the Holy Land is portrayed through misty eyes."
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July marks the two-year anniversary of the Oregon Jewish Museum's merger with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.
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There's something that happens when three people you're so close to die within a year and then YOU almost die but don't. (That was me. I'm the one that didn't die.)
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A second generation pastry chef, Bensimon was trained in the bakeshops and pastry kitchens of Paris, including the Michelin-rated Taillevent, and worked under pastry designer Jacques Genin.
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In making our selection we looked for true pioneers, people who arrived when a certain situation was at point A, and due to their investment over a lifetime, things moved on to B or even higher in the alphabet.
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The Billy Crystal Program for Peace through the Performing Arts is dedicated to promoting a humanistic society based on dialogic relations and peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
German police moved fast to shut down a terrorist situation in a theater in Vernheim, about 40 miles south of Frankfurt.
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"What's next?" Yachimovich wondered. "Soldiers modeling the Nike logo? Tanks laid up in the shape of the Gerber Baby? Fighter planes leaving behind streaks promoting a coffee and croissant campaign?"
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So now it's been established, the goose really hates it when the gander is doing goosey things, and sees nothing funny about it.
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The first ghetto's area was defined by two gates which were opened in the morning to the sound of the bell in St. Mark’s belfry, and closed at midnight by four Christian keepers, paid by the Jews.
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Bakst preferred to live in western Europe because, as a Jew, he did not have the right to live permanently outside the Pale of Settlement. One of his students was Marc Chagall.
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The documentary offers a news-driven, satirical approach to focus on the global impact of the BDS Movement.
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For most Jews, every passing year reveals even more intensely the divine miracles that began with the 1967 war, and are still with us.
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The Krakow Judge wrote that "had Poland accepted the US extradition request, it would have violated the rights of Mr Polanski and at the same time the European Convention on Human Rights."
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“I’m not a Starbucks guy. I’m a Dunkin Donuts guy, but I like to pay for the coffee of the other folks behind me in line,” Kraft revealed.
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The film depicts an Arab society which has gone a long way towards tolerating its gay members. It also offers criticism and praise of Israeli society from the Arab point of view.
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"The Germans incessantly lied to the Jews they deported for extermination. They told them about resettlement, work and life in a different location."
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"I don't think I will ever be the same having seen this astonishing thing."
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The NYT report described "unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct."
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Israeli photographer Ori Gersht's latest works are a series of photographs capturing the ancient gardens in Buddhist Zen temples in and around Kyoto.
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The evening featured performances by Shiri Meimon, Ninet Tayeb, Harel Skaat, Idan Haviv, Chief IDF Cantor Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, Uziya Tzadok and military bands.
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When white people decolonize their oppressors, does it count as liberation, or does it automatically constitute an occupation?
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Understandably, Iran's authorities were not amused.
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Burle Marx’s art inhabits a rare space between the rational and the lyrical. Nature’s variability was for him a liberating force.
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"If I post something from Adele or Taylor Swift, you can bet it'll be gone in a few hours."
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Rich with ambiguity, the phrases—some culled from the history of Zionism, others artistic distillations—resist interpretation.
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The family’s attorney is E. Randol Schoenberg, who helped Maria Altmann successfully recover Gustav Klimt's "Woman in Gold," from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.
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It turns out Germans continue to harbor ugly feelings about people and things that are not German, and they prefer their bigotry small and intimate, away from the lime lights.
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An estimated 1.5 million tourists visit sites across Judea and Samaria annually.
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The secret romance-fling apparently took place in 1994, two years after his highness had separated from Princess Diana.
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Born and raised in an Ethiopian village, Mekonen was a 12-year-old shepherd when his father died suddenly, less than a day before his family was to move to Israel.
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Academy Award winner stars alongside actress Gal Gadot in Israeli directed, produced film.
The present director transformed the Israel Museum into a world-class institution and doubled visitor numbers.
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In 2008, Tymieniecka sold her archive of letters to the Polish National Library, which kept them from public view until the BBC was invited to take a peek.
Jennifer Lopez announced she will perform in Tel Aviv and hatred began - tell her why she should #JustGoJLo
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It should be noted that WW2 was fought not by one, but by two really bad amateur painters.
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"We bought a business to almost restore a bit of history in New York City and then desire to expand that throughout the city, throughout the country and even throughout the world.”
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"Israeli society is not sufficiently aware of the Russian Jewry's suffering during World War Two," said MK Naguisa.
"I am the logical person to play the role, I am clearly a New Yorker, I've made a career out of playing college-educated, Upper West Side Jewish men."
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The scheduled appearance is another blow to the Boycott Israel Movement.
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Seventy-three years after Avraham Stern (Yair) was killed by British detectives, a new English-language play is bringing Stern’s ideas and poetry to the stage.
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Some Hungarians are calling it "Holokamu" (Holocaust con or hoax).
Harry Potter's evil Shape was beloved, but the deceased actor vilified Israel in a play about Rachel Corrie.
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Tired of the society of plenty with its self-adulation? Hitler believed that "mankind has grown strong in eternal struggle, and only in eternal peace does it perish."
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Influenced by their experience as mothers, entrepreneurs, and fashion lovers, Chaya and Simi combine a relaxed, easy-to wear vibe with a high-end aesthetic.
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Pop kabbalist Madonna said she was "devastated" by the news of Bowie's passing.
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"The Holocaust has become, over the years, an abstraction. For me, it's more of a face, a human face. Let us not forget this face."
A popular Hasidic hipster musical band based out of New York, known as “Zusha,” performed in Jerusalem’s Yellow Submarine music center this weekend.
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The congregation was served at one point by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who later went on to become Chief Rabbi of the UK.
The British singer will appear in Tel Aviv on May 26, the day Israelis celebrate and remember Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
He will make sing and play for the fourth time in Israel, where he once he enjoyed his best-ever audience.
Her husband is Jewish and she converted before they were married in June, while she was pregnant.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
JERUSALEM (TPS) - It hasn’t been easy for Jerusalem residents this past month, as a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks has continued to terrorize the capital as well as other parts of the country. On Monday morning, October 12, a stabbing attack took place outside the Old City at Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem, where an […]
Jerry Seinfeld will be performing a stand-up comedy show in Israel on December 19, in Tel Aviv. His visit to Israel is part of a world tour. Tickets start at NIS 250 and go up to NIS 1250.
And some good news: Bon Jovi played Tel Aviv on Saturday night to tens of thousands of fans.
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While being questioned at Nuremberg, Göring was “humble” about having pulled off one of the most extensive theft of artwork in history...
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YouTube videos feature Sondik on the street singing Chassidic style tunes.
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“Demon” is a take on the famous figure of Jewish folklore—the dybbuk.
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No fewer than two helicopters and six unmanned drones will patrol over the event, to actively challenge any media chopper that may attempt to snap the ceremony.
Tickets now on sale for Oct. 1 show at Jerusalem International Convention Center
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The project focuses on lower-league soccer throughout Israel, emphasizing how Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities come together through the game.
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Barenboim rejected from Iran because he's a "Zionist". The irony is overwhelming.
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Iranian born Tennor Ramtin Ghazavi, a frequent performer at Italy's La Scala, on Tuesday told San Jose Mercury News that the Islamic revolution that removed the Shah in 1979 "takes a dim view" of most musical forms, including opera.
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Mayim Bialik showed her support for Israel during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge, and commented on the verbal abuse she received for her position.
Stern hates Judaism but loves Israel and loves Trump.
Matisyahu answered all the antisemites and BDS supporters at the Sunsplash Festival with his rendition of "If I Forget Thee O' Jerusalem."