(TPS) — Alarms sounded throughout the city of Nahariya and several Israeli towns located near the Lebanon border on Sunday night, December 20. A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported there were three rockets fired.
Randy Fertel, an author who studied the influence of his own family and several other Jewish families on the development of jazz music in its early days along South Rampart Street, appeared at...
Why do they call it Black Friday? This Friday after Thanksgiving, when drunk with turkey parts and cranberry sauce, we run out of the house and into the nearest retailer of whatever...
(JTA) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson cancelled a trip to Israel, citing “security concerns.” Carson had been scheduled to travel to Israel on December 27 and meet with Israeli government officials, and then travel to Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria,...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — They’ve been banned from Israel’s schools and forbidden from speaking to Israeli soldiers. Israel’s prime minister denounced them from the floor of Knesset. A right-wing group has accused them...
We all have received blessings at one time or another. We have certainly received compliments. Over the course of time, we learn that sometimes the compliments are clearly flattering....
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out”)
There is little doubt that Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht made a formidable team of composer and lyricist. Their two greatest triumphs – “The Three Penny Opera” and “The Rise and Fall...
(JNS.org) — When the government of Sweden recognized a Palestinian state in 2014 and significantly increased foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), it was unclear to what extent Swedish-Israeli relations might become further strained. Swedish leaders’...
