This year, in advance of Shavuot, the National Library of Israel (NLI) has released a series of video clips featuring four of the most significant Torah scrolls from its world-leading Judaica collection. Due to their exceedingly delicate state, the Torah...
Jordan Palmer and Andrew Lapin, JTA
• Published June 2, 2022
Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat from St. Louis, has written a policy letter calling the eviction and future evictions of 1,000 Palestinian villagers from the Masafer Yatta, area of the West Bank, a war crime.
I know injustice when I see it.
Israel’s...
Diana Bletter, Israel21c.org
• Published June 2, 2022
When Yoav Levanon was three years old, he was very curious about his mother’s upright piano. He touched it, he said, and immediately fell in love.
He started playing… and playing… and on May 6, Levanon, now 18, he released his debut album with...
The mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, makes me want to scream. If you are a parent, or if you were ever a child, it’s impossible to read about the deliberate slaughter of 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School by an 18-year-old gunman...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published May 22, 2022
(JTA) — It’s hard to find a poster promoting early 20th-century Zionism that doesn’t depict a tanned, chiseled man toting a shovel or a gun. The posters were visual reinforcement of the “Muscle Jewry” valued by Max Nordau and other early Zionist...
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN, Israel21c.org
• Published May 19, 2022
India and Israel seem like a study in contrasts.
Some 1.4 billion Indians live in a vast country stretching nearly 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) across at its widest point, while 8.9 million Israelis live in a tiny land no more than 135 kilometers...
After Russian shelling intensified last month and a rocket exploded close to the Zhytomyr home of Nina, 76, she fled for Ukraine’s Polish border. When she arrived several days later after a long trip by car with other Zhytomyr residents, Nina was experiencing...
Joshua Shanes, College of Charleston
• Published May 17, 2022
The annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel – which in 2022 falls on Wednesday night, May 18 – until recently has attracted as many as half a million visitors every year. The annual gathering, which takes place at what is believed to...
(JNS) -- The Israel Police announced on Friday that it will launch an investigation into officers’ handling of the Jerusalem funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh earlier in the day, but emphasized that it supports its officers and will not allow them to be...
Zack Rothbart, National Library of Israel
• Published May 12, 2022
“As I left the hall, I knew that I would not be cutting hair for quite some time.” April 1948. Vidal Sassoon, a poor 20-year-old Jew who had been learning how to cut women’s hair by day and literally fighting fascists on the streets of London by...
(JTA) – The recent endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement by the Harvard Crimson has attracted far more wide-ranging attention than a typical student paper’s editorial page, as faculty and alumni of the Ivy League institution have...
American singer Adam Levine from pop-rock band Maroon 5 took a tour of the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday in the lead up to two concerts in Tel Aviv this week.
The LA-based band will be performing at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv on Monday and an...
