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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

Yehuda Amichai

Book lovers unite at Jerusalem's Tmol Shilshom cafe, celebrating 30 years in June 2024 (Courtesy)
May 29, 2024, 5:21 pm
Jerusalem book lovers’ cafe marks 30 years with Etgar Keret, others
Tmol Shilshom will mark its anniversary after nearly closing its doors during the pandemic
By Jessica Steinberg
File - Oded Forer, chair of Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, attends a committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 23, 2024, 4:34 pm
Government failure to arrange circumcisions delays conversion to Judaism for 98 men
A soldier fighting in Gaza nearly spent NIS 7,000 of his own money to finalize the process, an activist representing him says
By Canaan Lidor
Aharon Ariel (Courtesy Yael Ariel-Goldschmidt)
July 19, 2023, 6:49 am
Scholar Aharon Ariel, War of Independence vet and ‘walking encyclopedia,’ dies at 97
Jerusalemite Hagana fighter and ex-POW carved out career as journalist, translator, Hebrew teacher and encyclopedia editor, as well as advocating for son captured in Yom Kippur War
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A waitress at Cafe Alaska, from 'Nes or Turkish,' an exhibit about Jerusalem's early coffeehouses at Tmol Shilshom cafe in Jerusalem until December 31, 2021 (Courtesy private collection)
December 10, 2021, 12:24 pm
Jerusalem’s Tmol Shilshom cafe puts on an exhibit about… cafes
A new one-wall gallery at an iconic coffeehouse shows the many sides of the city’s early coffee culture
By Jessica Steinberg
Actress Lena Dunham attends TheWrap Power Women Breakfast at 10 On The Park on June 9, 2016 in New York City. (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images via JTA)
October 1, 2017, 7:16 pm
Lena Dunham says she connected to Judaism through Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai
Following death of her grandmother, Jewish actress, writer and director says she wanted to understand religion that had meant so much to her
By JTA
Yehuda Amichai in 1986. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
January 21, 2016, 4:38 am
New English collection opens the doors to Yehuda Amichai’s unforgettable poetry
Israel’s greatest modern poet is revealed in all his diversity, sensuality and universality
By Mitch Ginsburg
Tmol Shilshom founder and co-owner David Ehrlich (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
March 9, 2015, 6:30 am
Jerusalem literary landmark Tmol Shilshom looks to tomorrow
Owners of storied downtown bookstore-café – central to some of Israel’s most noted writers – to put worst-ever year behind them
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Iranian singer Parham Haghighi performs the role of Sabbatai Tzvi in 'Seekers of Light,' an opera written by Boston-based Israeli composer Matti Kovler. Seven scenes from the libretto were premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on Wed. night (photo credit: Jared Wickerham/The Times of Israel)
December 19, 2014, 3:08 pm
‘Hanukkah miracle’ at Boston museum’s joint Israeli-Iranian show
Musicians from ‘enemy’ countries perform in Hebrew and Persian in ‘Seekers of Light,’ an opera based on infamous Sabbatai Tzvi
By Matt Lebovic
Shimon Peres, in his office at the president's residence in Jerusalem. March 27, 2014. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
May 27, 2014, 8:03 am
Replacing the irreplaceable Shimon Peres
The presidential race has become a kind of contest to inherit from Peres the most conspicuous symbol of idealized ‘Israeliness’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Meir Shalev, pictured here at a previous festival, will be speaking Thursday, May 22, at 7 pm (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
May 12, 2014, 12:35 am
Jerusalem and its poet, Yehuda Amichai, spotlighted at writers festival
Diverse international gathering to offer up Roth, Agnon, motherhood, song, dance and more
By Jessica Steinberg
Amos Oz and his main squeeze and archivist, wife Nili Oz, at a 2010 book signing (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
January 16, 2013, 10:47 am
An archive of treasures from the ‘first’ writers
Examining the literary flotsam of the authors’ archives at Ben-Gurion University
By Jessica Steinberg
A young woman riding her bicycle by the Azrieli Center near the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur, when the road is car free. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/JTA)
September 23, 2012, 1:39 am
The un-Orthodox approach to Yom Kippur in Israel
Cycling is still secular Israel’s most popular pursuit on the calendar’s holiest day, but a focus on traditional texts that highlight self-improvement and forgiveness is proving increasingly resonant
By Ben Sales
Marni Mandell
July 19, 2012, 5:31 pm
Marni Mandell
Today our kids came home
As a nation we have already begun the mourning process. You can hear it in the outrage, in the disbelief, in the confusion and the pain. We have not yet tapped into the sadness — but that, too, will come
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