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How a Portrait of an Australian Jewish Leader Humanizes an Anguished Community

MELBOURNE – There were many unexpected similarities that acclaimed Australian painter Michael Zavros found in common with his portrait subject, Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the umbrella group Executive Council of.

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Could an Israeli TV Channel’s Young Billionaire Owner Follow the Jeff Bezos Playbook?

Some Channel 13 employees worry that cloud security entrepreneur Assaf Rappaport will do to their channel what Jeff Bezos has done to The Washington Post When star Arab-Israeli news anchor.

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'There is an enormous desire': Is it time to play Wagner at the Israeli Opera?

A discussion with the Israeli Opera’s music director turns to Wagner, a rapper returns to his Iranian roots and a documentary film festival shows Israel through the eyes of Pasolini.

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‘When We See You Again’: Rachel Goldberg-Polin Memoir on Son’s Oct. 7 Abduction and Killing Tops NYT List

Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s memoir is currently No. 1 on The New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list. Goldberg-Polin is the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted from the Nova festival.

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Israeli Band's TikTok hit 'Self Aware' becomes a global streaming success

Temper City’s debut track surges past 50 million Spotify streams – a rare scale for Israeli pop Source link

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Nationalistic or Critical? What Israeli Independence Day Posters Tell Us

From the founding of Israel in 1948 until 2017, a poster competition was a classic feature of Independence Day, with the government choosing a winner each year. In 2017, Miri.

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Israeli movie theaters return with 'Project Hail Mary,' where the end of the world is actually fun

Meanwhile, Pixar’s latest ‘Hoppers’ delivers its smart, eco-conscious message without hitting the audience over the head and ‘Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert’ draws on hitherto unseen footage to create a.

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First Illuminated Passover Haggadah Features Imagery That Would Shock Modern Jewish Worshipers

Anyone who does not say these three things on Passover has not fulfilled his obligation: Pesach, Matza and Maror (Passover, matza and bitter herbs). Everybody who has ever taken part.

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Joe Sacco’s Next Gaza Comic Book and an Israeli Actor Wracked With Guilt

Credit: Joe Sacco, Chris Hedges, Fantagraphics, Moti Milrod, Ella Barak A renowned cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist collaborate to create a devastating indictment of Israel’s actions in Gaza in.

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‘Better Chance of Dying of Boredom’: Even Cluster Missiles Can’t Stop Tel Aviv’s Nightlife

When Ollie Danon performed last week at the Hameretz2 club in Tel Aviv, a siren went off just before his encore. He and the audience rushed to a nearby courthouse.

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