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Avi Goldberger surrounded by music, May 2026 (Roy Elman)
July 18, 2026, 8:44 am
Avi Goldberger, pub owner who brings everyone together
In this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a 9th generation Jerusalemite who unites the city over a good drink
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Food writer Joan Nathan making gefilte fish in her kitchen at Passover (Courtesy of Nathan family collection)
April 17, 2024, 5:17 am
Food writer Joan Nathan’s life and recipes combine in new hybrid cookbook-memoir
‘My Life in Recipes, Food, Family, and Memories’ is the author’s most personal work yet, a reflection on her 80 years
By Jessica Steinberg
Denis Weil, director of the Israel Museum, one year after taking on the job in March 2022, in the sculpture garden he remembers visiting as a 10-year-old (Courtesy Elie Posner)
May 20, 2023, 7:45 am
Israel Museum enters new phase with new director Denis Weil
Nation’s largest cultural institution looks to reach new audiences including Arab and Haredi communities, create new programming and develop new tech
By Jessica Steinberg
Joan Nathan, chef and author of 'King Solomon's Table.' (Michelle Tomasi/Penguin Random House)
March 5, 2022, 3:07 pm
Jewish food doyenne Joan Nathan heads to Israel for kitchen time with fan Guy Pines
After earlier plans were stymied by the pandemic, the Anu museum has finally cooked up a way to bring Nathan together with the celebrity news anchor and foodie
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the Western Wall plaza and the Dome of the Rock in the background, in Jerusalem's Old City, December 23, 2021. (Lee Aloni/Flash90)
January 28, 2022, 10:51 pm
French historian claims Israel abetted 1967 razing of Jerusalem’s Mughrabi quarter
In new book, Vincent Lemire says officials in Jerusalem helped plan destruction of Muslim neighborhood in front of Western Wall after Six Day War
By Guillaume LAVALLÉE
Flying high, atop the Generali building (Shmuel Bar-Am)
July 28, 2018, 12:51 pm
Winged, crowned, hidden, stolen and jaw-broken: Where to find Jerusalem’s lions
The Lion of Judah has symbolized the capital for millennia, and is the city’s official emblem. But dozens more very different incarnations are also prowling the streets
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
David Kroyanker and his archive on Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, 2013 (Yossi Aloni)
June 20, 2017, 8:08 am
Architect David Kroyanker writes definitive guide to the living museum that is Jerusalem
Foremost expert on Israeli capital’s built heritage publishes four-volume work on the Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Modern design, ‘God Is In The Details’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
June 1967: Israeli Centurion tank corps prepare for battle during the Six-Day War. (Three Lions/Getty Images via JTA)
June 6, 2017, 12:26 am
6 things you didn’t know about the Six Day War
50 years later, small anomalies that, if not forgotten, have faded into the recesses of memory
By Ron Kampeas
Eliezer Jaffe. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 30, 2017, 6:26 pm
Father of Israeli social work dies after winning lifetime achievement award
American-born Eliezer Jaffe led numerous government programs to help needy, founded trailblazing academic program
By JTA
Abraham Rabinovich (center) on Temple Mount, 1967 (photo credit: author's photo)
May 24, 2017, 4:15 pm
An American in war-torn Jerusalem witnesses the battle for the Temple Mount
Fifty years ago, in the days leading up to the Six Day War, a plucky young journalist from Long Island flew to Israel on his first self-imposed war assignment. Here’s what he saw
By Abraham Rabinovich
In this Feb. 28, 1989 file photo, real estate mogul Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in New York, announcing the opening of his Taj Mahal Resort Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/David Cantor, File)
May 10, 2017, 10:20 am
The curious case of Donald Trump’s 1989 (non-)visit to Israel
The release of state files showing extensive preparations to take the developer around Israel 28 years ago has been seized upon as proof that this month’s visit won’t be Trump’s first. Except there’s no record of him actually being here, and nobody can recall meeting him
By Raphael Ahren
A family visiting the Israel Museum's Shrine of the Book in 1965, when the iconic institution first opened. (Courtesy Israel Museum)
March 22, 2017, 11:53 am
From its first curator, a breathless, memorable account of the opening of the iconic Israel Museum
Karl Katz lived and breathed museums worldwide through a fruitful and distinguished career. But never to more abiding effect, as he shows in ‘The Exhibitionist,’ than in Jerusalem in the 1960s
By Asher Weill
Newly discovered Picasso sketch bearing a likeness of former mayor Teddy Kollek, December 2016 (Courtesy)
December 26, 2016, 6:41 pm
Picasso sketch of ex-J’lem mayor narrowly avoids trash
Previously unknown doodle of Teddy Kollek, who founded the Israel Museum, found in catalog of Spanish artist’s 1965 exhibit
By Ilan Ben Zion
In this February 26, 2012 file photo, Michael Douglas, left, and Kirk Douglas arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, California. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
November 11, 2016, 8:31 am
Kirk Douglas gets early 100th birthday gift from Jewish group
Award from World Jewish Congress marks iconic actor’s Jewish roots, ties to Israel
By Edith M. Lederer
Finalists from the Jerusalem Double team, one of six groups competing for three grants. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
September 22, 2016, 10:39 am
Social Innovation Challenge bookends Jerusalem Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration
Six final groups compete for grants of $15,000, $35,000 and $50,000 to help them pursue projects aimed at benefiting people of all backgrounds across the capital
By Yaakov Schwartz
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