Purim 2015 – Parties all around
From Haifa to Eilat, Israelis shook off the post-winter blahs and pre-election tensions for a weekend of holiday fun.
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.
From Haifa to Eilat, Israelis shook off the post-winter blahs and pre-election tensions for a weekend of holiday fun.
The custom of drowning out Haman’s name with noise-makers has been around since medieval times but there are always ways to update an old tradition.
Contemporary glass artworks are the subject of not one but two new exhibits at Israeli museums where collections of ancient glass are also on display.
Israeli election 2015 videos have gone viral, generating interest at home and internationally. Hard to believe that only a few decades ago, our campaign ads were local affairs, broadcast on one sole channel.
Snow in Jerusalem, again? Photographer Marco Jona puts a fresh, new twist on what is becoming an annual event.
Artists, illustrators and cartoonists pay homage to the work of the late Dudu Geva, whose motley crew of characters included Tel Aviv’s unofficial mascot and the Israeli everyman.
Two exhibitions of food photos taken by the country’s top chefs celebrate what makes food in Israel so great: a fusion of Eastern and Western cuisines, new approaches to traditional dishes, fresh ingredients — and passion.
It’s strange not to be at the ICC Jerusalem, the convention center so long identified with the Jerusalem International Book Fair.
Using only a mobile phone camera, Sudanese refugee Noureldin Musa finds beauty in the desert surroundings of his present residence: the Holot Detention Center.
The Keren Kayemet-Jewish National Fund isn’t tree planting this year but continues its greening work — even while the land rests.
Working with traditional materials in an non-traditional fashion, photographer Moria Lahis has created a series of contemporary photos that evoke a feeling of the past.
Humorist Ephraim Kishon’s essays, movies and plays skewered Israeli society, cleverly and lovingly, in ways that still ring true decades after they were first written.
Photographer Elisheva Shaked examines the complex relationship between nature and a landscape scarred by human hands.
Oh for the days when Israeli and Lebanese beauty queens were able to link arms, dance and be photographed without controversy.
It’s not every day that the city sees nature at its rawest, says photographer Basti Hansen, who ventured out to post images directly from a storm-swept beachfront.