Giving 45,000 Israeli fans one wild night, iconic band delivers its greatest hits in an electric show that closes their two-month world tour. “This House is Not for Sale” tour has reportedly grossed over $43 million.
Netflix's "The Red Sea Diving Resort" tells the story of Mossad agents who in 1984 established a fake resort up the coast from Port Sudan in a bid to help Beta Israel communities in Ethiopia escape their plight.
“A municipality is using taxpayer money to show a widely rejected ‘documentary’ narrated by a notorious anti-Semite that peddles anti-Semitic canards,” says senior member of the Jewish community. “They should be bringing people together, not dividing them.”
CAMERA warns that while network pitched "Our Boys" as story about the killing of three Jewish teens that led up to Operation Protective Edge in 2014, trailer focuses on horrific death of Palestinian teen and portrays Israeli society as bloodthirsty and racist.
The eight-part series, about the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, will be filmed and produced in Israel and the United States by students from Tel Aviv-based Studio Free Media.
Local music scene sees growing Ethiopian Israeli presence, especially in the hip hop and dancehall scenes, as artists use various platforms to protest what they see as racism and discrimination.
"Yiddish Glory" presents songs by Soviet Jews that describe the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. "The last thing a lot of Yiddish speaking people did was to write a song," says Prof. Anna Shternshis.
Israeli singer Dana International’s winning 1998 Eurovision song ranks 14 in Rolling Stone Italia’s list of groundbreaking pride songs. Gloria Gaynor's timeless classic "I Will Survive" tops the list; top five include Madonna, Lady Gaga, Queen and Italy's own Raffaella Carrà.
"Wonder Woman" says she keeps thinking about her native country despite her Hollywood fame. "Every time I come back here it feels like home," she says at launch of new Reebok campaign.
Some 150,000 parade marchers and an estimated 4 million spectators commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that triggered the modern LGBTQ movement.