YiddishWit.com is a collection of Yiddish proverbs and sayings and expressions that are published in Yiddish and that lend themselves to illustration. The illustrations are created by Johanna Kovitz, and are adaptations and recombinations of existing...
Ethiopia was in the midst of a brutal civil war in 1991 when Israel decided to launch an intrepid mission that would bring 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to Israel over the course of 36 hours. The covert operation used 35 aircraft to do so, with the Israeli Air...
Fans of the team behind Fauda, and it's star Lior Raz got the first glimpse of their new action thriller Hit & Run, scheduled to hit Netflix in August, 2021.
The series tells the story of a former soldier, who is forced to confront his dark past...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 19, 2021
Imagine Netflix but with a tighter focus on Jewish and Israeli-themed movies and television shows -- and your mind should formulate one answer: ChaiFlicks. Coined the "Jewish Netflix" by the Detroit Jewish News, this website offers a deep volume of...
Shaked Karabelnicoff, Jewishunpacked.com
• Published July 19, 2021
This article originally appeared at jewishunpacked.com. Reposted with permission.
Last week Netflix released a new reality show called “My Unorthodox Life” which focuses on the life and family of Julia Haart — a woman who left her ultra-Orthodox...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
• Published July 19, 2021
The four-person card game “bridge” is one of the world’s most popular social games, with afficionados including Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Because it’s time-consuming, bridge is often taken up by people in their retirement years.
Now, the...
Jordan Palmer, Director of Digital Communications
• Published July 19, 2021
I first discovered soap operas during a bout with the flu, back in college in 1988. I spent my entire afternoon flipping channels and watching "my stories," eventually getting hooked on Days Of Our Lives. Little did I know that the woman responsible for...
The St. Louis Art Museum attracts art lovers from around the country. But, did you know that this treasure located at the top of Art Hill in Forest Park houses a truly impressive collection of Jewish art in many forms. Jewish Art Inside the St. Louis...
(JNS) A trio of Israeli filmmakers remains arrested in Nigeria for the past week while the reason for their detainment and the charges have not been released.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed to The Jerusalem Post the arrests of Columbia University...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 16, 2021
"We don't get a lot of things to care about."
"Pig" is not what you think it is. The creepy looking "Nicolas Cage as Rob Zombie" poster doesn't tell you much and for good reason. In fact, it may be a good idea to stop reading this review. But I'm going...
NANCY KRANZBERG, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 16, 2021
Walking through nature’s work of art in parks all over during these crazy times, I started thinking about artists and how they interpret the beauty and grandeur of it all in their own ways. Landscape art is the most obvious, but land art or earthworks...
