1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (280+ words) Italy's state broadcaster RAI was forced to apologize to the Jewish community on Saturday after an off'air remark advising its producers to "avoid" the Israeli crew was broadcast before coverage of the Four-Man bobsleigh event at the Winter Olympics. The…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago  (439+ words) At an emotional screening on Friday at the 76th Berlinale, an updated version of Tom Shoval's A Letter to David, a documentary about former hostage David Cunio and his family, was shown in the presence of David Cunio and his brother…...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago  (467+ words) James L. Brooks, 85, is one of the most beloved Jewish-American directors and television creators of all time, and it is a cause for celebration that he has just released his first feature film in 15 years, Ella McCay, which is streaming in…...

5+ hour, 27+ min ago  (345+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered a vibrant red fresco during excavations of a villa believed to have belonged to Emperor Nero's second wife in Naples, southern Italy, according to local media." The discovery's announcement follow the site's partial opening to the public…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1060+ words) The Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem is a singular historic gem that more people are getting the opportunity to visit thanks to the guided tours, which were begun this year. Shut down during the coronavirus pandemic and then after Oct....

14+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1366+ words) One of the more intriguing and surprising offerings is the spread of ancient maps in the exhibition titled Fact, Faith, and Fantasy: Maps of the Holy Land from the Chinn Collection." The latter references the fact that the items on…...

16+ hour, 16+ min ago  (868+ words) Braun died in 2018 at the age of 100, and he left us with a veritable cornucopia of negatives and prints that tell a multi-stratified tale of this country's timeline, across a macro/micro spread of events, milestones, and vignettes. This incorporates…...

16+ hour, 17+ min ago  (455+ words) South Africa will not participate in this year's Venice Biennale following a dispute between its culture ministry and the artist it had selected, whose planned installation focused on Gaza. Gabrielle Goliath, a South African artist selected to represent the country…...

16+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1129+ words) There is a line in Spanish-Jewish philosopher Hasdai Crescas's letter to the Jews of Avignon, France, that stops you cold. He is describing the 1391 massacres in Spain, community by community, chronicling who died and who converted and who escaped. Then…...

21+ hour, 15+ min ago  (535+ words) Isaiah Zagar, the famed Jewish mosaic artist whose shimmering, kaleidoscopic installations transformed streets and buildings across Philadelphia and founded the city's Magic Gardens, died on Thursday at the age of 86. Zagar died on Thursday of complications from heart failure and…...