Arts and Entertainment

Hollywood stars who greeted the New Year in Israel also met the 'Black Hebrew Israelites' mostly from Chicago, now living in Dimona.

The images will be displayed at the Knesset over the next two weeks, and then travel around the world in 2017, providing people everywhere with the opportunity to celebrate 50 years of a unified Jerusalem.

Donald Trump is about to become the very first US president who has halachically Jewish grandchildren (the Clintons' son-in-law is Jewish, too, but that's just not good enough for Jewish law).

Throughout history, Jesus was an anathema for the Jews who lived under Christian rule. But staring in the 19th century Jewish and Israeli artists have engaged with the figure of Jesus.

From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.

The new Jerusalem center for the arts is part of a project to turn the city into a world capital of culture and the arts.

In both cases, the sellers agreed to return the works in 'amicable discussions,' according to the Max Stern Foundation.

Also, Literature? How is Dylan getting a prize for literature when he's a songwriter? Who makes the decisions over there, the Norwegian parliament? (Yes).

The law allows the heirs six years to sue in US court from the day they become aware of the existence and location of the looted object.

The Limbach Commission, a panel set up by Germany to return Nazi-looted art in public collections, has already issued a recommendation against returning a painting by Gris that used to hang in Flechtheim’s Berlin apartment.

All his children were born to non-Jewish mothers, but Douglas insists they were "aware culturally" of his "deep convictions," and he never tried to influence their own religious decisions.

The artist was no doubt referencing the gold statue of the past dictator of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov.

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.

'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.

Amazingly, Tatiana’s performance was received with applause by the audience, but social media folks have been condemning it in a mix of rage and disbelief.

The band was forced to postpone their Haifa concert due to the fires.

"Superman and Captain America can be seen as Jewish creators imagining how they'd be awesome and powerful if they were white."

When one of the most successful shows ever went into syndication, Bannon, like everyone else connected to it, made a mint.

President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday: "The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!”

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.

Last March, Culture Minister Grütters faced shocked protests after telling the New York Times that if a Jew is appointed to the commission his “would be the only voice who would be prejudiced.”

Defying leftwing criticism and protests, Habima played in Kiryat Arba.

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.

Chareau, whose wife Dollie Dyte Chareau was Jewish and whose mother came from a Sephardic family, fled to the United States in 1940.

It is a typically edifying poem of the sort that was often written in "poezie albums," exhorting the owner to do her best and be diligent at work.

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.”