Art attack: Israeli ex-sniper blasts paint in mental health message
David Roytman uses weapons to splatter paint onto canvas. This method is a way to exorcise difficult memories from his combat service, he says.
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Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival goes virtual, announces lineup
Tickets now on sale for this year's festival, which opens May 19 and features Jewish feature films and documentaries from all over the world.
'The camel is here!' Young readers in Pakistan await living bookmobile
President of local girls' school founded Camel Library in August 2020 so children could continue to learn despite schools being closed because of COVID.
Shira Haas wins Spirit Awards for 'Unorthodox'
Netflix miniseries' male lead, Israeli actor Amit Rahav, wins in Best Male Performance in a Scripted Series category. Israeli director Shaul Schwarz wins Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series award for documentary series "Immigration Nation."
Israeli short film about pizza order gone wrong wins humanitarian award
"NEW WORLD (pizza) ORDER" is part of Haven Originals' Project Out, which focuses on stories about the "little guy" versus the government and big tech.
TV series about 2014 abduction of Israeli teens to air in world's largest Muslim county
Show also sold to Hong Kong, Australian broadcasters after success in Europe and Latin America. "A solid human-interest story knows no borders," Israeli production company says.
'Survivors are fading away; What's left is what we create'
Artist Yishai Jusidman deals with the portrayal of the Holocaust in his exhibition in the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod. Through paintings based, among other things, on photographs of the gas chambers in Birkenau and Treblinka, he tackles the taboo of painting the Holocaust.
Israeli director Alma Har'el signs TV deal with Amazon Studios
Har'el will work with the studio to develop and create a new television series exclusively for Amazon Prime Video.
ADL: Fox should fire Carlson for white-supremacist rhetoric
In a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, the head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, says Tucker Carlson’s "rhetoric was not just a dog whistle to racists – it was a bullhorn."
Controversial Arab MK wins Israeli TV award
Labor MK Ibtisam Mara'ana, whose candidacy for parliament sparked public ire over her past anti-Zionist statements, wins an Israeli Academy for Film and Television's 2020 award in the fact-based shows category for an episode of "Excuse Me for Asking," which focuses on sectors in society that deal with social stigmas.