Why people toss breadcrumbs into the sea off Tel Aviv
For over a century, Tel Avivians have been casting off their sins during the Days of Awe by performing the traditional atonement ceremony of Tashlich.
Rachel Neiman is an experienced media professional whose journalism credits include ISRAEL21c, Globes Online, The Jerusalem Post and LINK magazine. She has served as marketing communications director at several Israeli innovation-based startups. Rachel attributes her vast knowledge of Israeli nostalgia to her Palmach-generation folk-singer mother and Jewish historian father, as well as her own lifelong obsession with all things pop culture.
For over a century, Tel Avivians have been casting off their sins during the Days of Awe by performing the traditional atonement ceremony of Tashlich.
The tradition of giving hard-copy Rosh Hashana cards has nearly disappeared but these charmingly kitschy greetings are enjoying a second life online.
Facebook and the National Library of Israel posts photos of schoolchildren taken between the 1950s and 1990s, inviting the public to identify them.
In his stories and paintings of childhood objects, artist Yoel Gilinsky explores Israel’s history through the lens of his personal history.
In honor of the Jewish holiday of romance, ISRAEL21c brings you photos of happy couples in the Holy Land from 1933 until the present day.
In honor of Tu b’Av, the Jewish holiday of romance, use our recommendations and playlist to set the right mood, Israeli-style.
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Luxury caravan that hosted heads of state and presidents from around the world is now restored and on display at the Israel Railways Museum in Haifa.
Exhibition at Negev Museum of Art offers rare images of life in the modern desert city in its first years. The location is as fascinating as the images.
For a few glorious years, the city of Haifa gave Tel Aviv’s Adloyada Purim parade stiff competition with its Shavuot street celebration, Bikurim.
Eurovision hoopla overshadowed the fact that our region experienced a tremblor. It was hardly the first; here are photos of a 1927 quake in Israel.
Ahead of this year’s song contest in Tel Aviv, here is a retrospective about the winners, losers, politics and songwriting secrets of Eurovision.
The venue for Europe’s biggest song competition has a history that stretches back almost to the city’s founding.
New technologies help locate long-lost relatives fallen in Israel’s wars and map all of Israel’s cemeteries.