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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
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Writer: Renee Ghert-Zand

June 20, 2013
8:48 am

This guy's boxer briefs don't stay on for very long in this Size Doesn't Matter video ad promoting Tel Aviv tourism. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Tel Aviv’s sexy shower scene

A new tourism ad gets a lot of attention abroad, pro and against selling the Big Orange as the Middle East’s Sin City

By Renee Ghert-Zand

June 18, 2013
6:11 pm

The former New York mayor visits his own gravestone in the documentary 'Koch.' (Courtesy Zeitgeist Films)

Wrong year etched on Ed Koch’s grave

Engraver promises to speedily fix New York mayor birthdate error

June 18, 2013
4:34 am

Urban Adamah fellow Laura Ruiz-Needleman (left) and Dani Friedenberg working on the farm (photo credit: Courtesy of Urban Adamah)

San Francisco’s Jewish farm needs more room to grow

Urban Adamah aims to transplant its flourishing project and get the whole Bay Area to dig into Judaism and sustainable living

By Renee Ghert-Zand

June 6, 2013
10:15 am

Pearl Berlin (left) and Lennie Gerber rejoice after their marriage ceremony. (photo credit: Arlene Gutterman. Courtesy of Pearl Berlin and Lennie Gerber)

After 47 years, lesbian couple weds

Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin defy the law and break the glass together under the chuppah in North Carolina

By Renee Ghert-Zand

June 6, 2013
5:25 am

Tziporah Salamon (photo credit: Martin Scott Powell)

63-year-old Israeli is NY’s model street fashionista

With over 200 hats, Tziporah Salamon once took over seven years to put together ‘the perfect outfit’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

May 26, 2013
3:04 pm

Beat Memories zooms in on Allen Ginsberg as photographer

Beatnik greats Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs come to life through candid photography from the 1950s at a new exhibition in San Francisco

By Renee Ghert-Zand

May 19, 2013
8:44 pm

Filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler tries a Hasidic man's suit on for size in her new web series, 'Dude, Where's My Chutzpah?' (photo credit: courtesy of Jessie Kahnweiler)

Dude, a Jewish project that is all about the journey

In new web series ‘Dude, Where’s My Chutzpah?’ filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler goes on a comic spiritual adventure that turns her grandparents’ religion into her own

By Renee Ghert-Zand

May 9, 2013
6:18 pm

Alana Kayfetz and Rachel Singer used their social-media savvy to unearth community support to 'Save the CJN.' (photo credit: Courtesy of Rachel Singer)

Tech-savvy duo use social media in bid to save Canada’s Jewish weekly

In an ironic move, a pair of Millennials fight to preserve the Canadian Jewish News’ print edition… by setting up a website

By Renee Ghert-Zand

May 8, 2013
6:04 pm

Bronx Science sophomores Theresa Wang and Justin Wu examine artifacts at the school's Holocaust Museum and Studies Center. (photo credit: Courtesy of Bronx Science High School)

NY high school houses hands-on Holocaust museum

Famous for its Nobel Prize-winning laureates, the Bronx High School of Science is making headlines for its Holocaust Museum and Studies Center, a 35-year labor of love

By Renee Ghert-Zand

May 8, 2013
11:59 am

Brooklyn yeshiva cops traffic

Williamsburg’s Yeshiva Bnos Ahavas Israel accused of illegally installing no-parking sign

By Renee Ghert-Zand

May 1, 2013
4:32 am

Author Ari Goelman is a big fan of Jewish summer camp and fantasy fiction. (Courtesy. Photo credit: John Goldsmith Photography)

A Jewish Harriet Potter

New Scholastic release ‘The Path of Names’ is a mystical mainstream fantasy novel for preteens set at a Jewish sleep-away camp in rural Pennsylvania

By Renee Ghert-Zand

April 30, 2013
11:50 am

Anne Frank's diary the basis of social change program, 'Thirteen in 13.' (photo credit: AP file photo)

Anne Frank inspires UK teen project

Based on famous Holocaust diary quote, teenagers turning 13 in 2013 are writing to Prime Minister David Cameron and telling him what would make Britain a better place

By Renee Ghert-Zand

April 28, 2013
12:29 pm

Oday Aboushi, newly drafted by the NY Jets, is the first Palestinian-American NFL player. (Courtesy Oday Aboushi's Facebook page)

First Palestinian-American in NFL

Will Oday Aboushi be the Hank Greenberg of the Muslim community?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

April 28, 2013
12:05 pm

President Obama plays Daniel Day-Lewis playing President Obama in Steven Spielberg's 'Obama.' (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Obama’s next term? In Hollywood

In spoof video, the US president plays Daniel Day-Lewis… playing Obama

By Renee Ghert-Zand and Times of Israel staff and AP

April 27, 2013
3:52 pm

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell (photo credit: Clara Rice)

Just your typical 6’1’’ African-American Yiddish singer

Baptist-born and Jew by choice, opera singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell’s ‘niggunim’ have soul

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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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: Renee Ghert-Zand

Tel Aviv’s sexy shower scene

A new tourism ad gets a lot of attention abroad, pro and against selling the Big Orange as the Middle East’s Sin City

Wrong year etched on Ed Koch’s grave

Engraver promises to speedily fix New York mayor birthdate error

San Francisco’s Jewish farm needs more room to grow

Urban Adamah aims to transplant its flourishing project and get the whole Bay Area to dig into Judaism and sustainable living

After 47 years, lesbian couple weds

Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin defy the law and break the glass together under the chuppah in North Carolina

63-year-old Israeli is NY’s model street fashionista

With over 200 hats, Tziporah Salamon once took over seven years to put together ‘the perfect outfit’

Beat Memories zooms in on Allen Ginsberg as photographer

Beatnik greats Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs come to life through candid photography from the 1950s at a new exhibition in San Francisco

Dude, a Jewish project that is all about the journey

In new web series ‘Dude, Where’s My Chutzpah?’ filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler goes on a comic spiritual adventure that turns her grandparents’ religion into her own

Tech-savvy duo use social media in bid to save Canada’s Jewish weekly

In an ironic move, a pair of Millennials fight to preserve the Canadian Jewish News’ print edition… by setting up a website

NY high school houses hands-on Holocaust museum

Famous for its Nobel Prize-winning laureates, the Bronx High School of Science is making headlines for its Holocaust Museum and Studies Center, a 35-year labor of love

Brooklyn yeshiva cops traffic

Williamsburg’s Yeshiva Bnos Ahavas Israel accused of illegally installing no-parking sign

A Jewish Harriet Potter

New Scholastic release ‘The Path of Names’ is a mystical mainstream fantasy novel for preteens set at a Jewish sleep-away camp in rural Pennsylvania

Anne Frank inspires UK teen project

Based on famous Holocaust diary quote, teenagers turning 13 in 2013 are writing to Prime Minister David Cameron and telling him what would make Britain a better place

First Palestinian-American in NFL

Will Oday Aboushi be the Hank Greenberg of the Muslim community?

Obama’s next term? In Hollywood

In spoof video, the US president plays Daniel Day-Lewis… playing Obama

Just your typical 6’1’’ African-American Yiddish singer

Baptist-born and Jew by choice, opera singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell’s ‘niggunim’ have soul

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