Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Israel Relief Campaign

Thursday, May 2, 2013
Iyyar 22, 5773
4:09 am IDT
Site updated 6 minutes ago

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Rebecca Spence

April 9, 2013
1:51 pm

Private investigator Eric Agaki cracked the Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market fraud case in Los Angeles. (photo credit: Rebecca Spence/JTA)

Exposing LA’s kosher meat fraud was a ‘mitzvah’

Though he’s put a murderer behind bars, Israeli-born P.I. Eric Agaki is most proud of the Doheny case and its broad impact

By Rebecca Spence

November 23, 2012
6:11 pm

Hillel Tigay's new album, “Judeo,” in Hebrew and Aramaic, is based on his interpretation of what music may have sounded like in ancient Israel. (Courtesy of Ikar Music Lab/PR via JTA)

New album attempts to recapture 2,000-year-old sounds from the Temple

In ‘Judeo,’ LA cantor Hillel Tigay mixes music from the Bible with modern influences such as Peter Gabriel

By Rebecca Spence