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Jessica Steinberg
Jessica Steinberg
Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.
Young Jewish men celebrate Jerusalem day around the Old City walls of Jerusalem, May 21, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 5, 2021, 1:33 am
Capital readies for solid week of Jerusalem Day festivities
Hotels offer deals, museums stay open late, and walking tours will crisscross the city
By Jessica Steinberg
From ON by Adi Salant for the Fresco Dance Company, premiering in Tel Aviv on May 11, 2021 (Courtesy Efrat Mazor)
May 4, 2021, 6:00 pm
Back onstage, dance troupes work out the anxieties of the last year
Fresco and Batsheva dance companies premiere new works after a long period of quiet creativity
By Jessica Steinberg
Spanish video artist Alex Rigola's 'MachoMan' installation, will be in place at the upcoming Jerusalem Festival, opening June 3, 2021 (Courtesy Marti Artalejo)
May 3, 2021, 3:34 pm
This year’s Israel Festival is smaller, homegrown and presented in person
Jerusalem event celebrates its 60th year with tribute to culture of years past; organizers say there won’t be a livestream as they want to encourage attendance; tickets now on sale
By Jessica Steinberg
Conductor Dan Ettinger has returned to Israel after a year at his home in Mannheim, Germany, and is rehearsing 'Die Fledermaus,' opening at the New Israeli Opera on April 30, 2021 (Courtesy Dan Ettinger)
April 29, 2021, 8:42 pm
Israeli Opera roars back with ‘rock star’ conductor Dan Ettinger
After more than a year of COVID-imposed closure, Israeli-born maestro will conduct performances of farcical operetta ‘Die Fledermaus’ from Friday
By Jessica Steinberg
One of Nana Warszawski's Project Creatures under construction (Courtesy Project Creatures)
April 28, 2021, 1:46 pm
Israeli artists upcycle clothes, trinkets and memories into beloved keepsakes
Businesses help repurpose jewelry or turn cherished pieces of material and other items belonging to those who have passed into stuffed animals and other mementos
By Jessica Steinberg
The Hotel Montefiore in Tel Aviv turned its parking lot into an outdoor dining space during the coronavirus summer season, July 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 28, 2021, 6:07 am
Israel’s hotels eye foreign tourists and wonder: If we open, will they come?
With the rules for noncitizens entering the country about to be significantly loosened, rooms are being readied despite concerns about travel during COVID and lack of staff
By Jessica Steinberg
Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room — Love Forever, 1966/94, part of the comprehensive exhibit of her work coming to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in November 2021. (Courtesy, Ota Fine Arts)
April 27, 2021, 12:30 am
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama gets retrospective at TLV Museum
Ranked as one of best and biggest art exhibitions of 2021, the show will encompass 200 works
By Jessica Steinberg
Dutch violinist Andre Rieu announced his rescheduled Tel Aviv concerts for November 2021. (Courtesy André Rieu Productions)
April 26, 2021, 9:06 am
Dutch violinist Andre Rieu books concerts in Tel Aviv
Conductor known for popularizing classical music reschedules 2020’s postponed shows
By Jessica Steinberg
In this file photo taken on October 03, 2016 Israeli-US fashion designer Alber Elbaz delivers a speech after he received the title of Officer in the National Order of Merit by French Culture minister at the Culture ministry in Paris on October 3, 2016. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)
April 25, 2021, 3:19 pm
Alber Elbaz, top Israeli fashion icon and ex-Lanvin director, dies of COVID
France-based designer, 59, said to succumb to South African strain of coronavirus after being fully vaccinated
By Jessica Steinberg
Ezra Rabinowitz, Tzippi Moss and her husband Allan Rabinowitz on the Israel Trail in 2009, the subject of her recently published book, 'Angels and Tahina' (Courtesy Tzippi Moss)
April 24, 2021, 7:43 am
Two new books expound on aliyah experience for olim, by olim
‘Angels & Tahina’ and ‘Aliya: Home. Hope. Reality’ bring two Jerusalem families’ experiences into sharp relief
By Jessica Steinberg
Shayna Smilovitz, baby Roni and her parents upon meeting their granddaughter for the first time in April 2021, after grappling with Israel's complicated entry rules during the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy Shayna Smilovitz)
April 23, 2021, 3:32 am
Want to visit your Israeli grandchildren after a year of separation? Get in line
First-degree family members, new grandparents and Israeli residents with visas try to navigate the labyrinthine regulations of entering Israel during the pandemic
By Jessica Steinberg
Actor Guri Alfi (far left) stars in 'Blackspace,' a Reshet 13 series now coming to Netflix (Courtesy Reshet 13)
April 22, 2021, 6:54 pm
Netflix scoops up Israeli thriller about high school shooting
‘Blackspace’ is an eight-part series about a police investigation into an attack targeting teens
By Jessica Steinberg
Keren and Isack Kadosh, the pastry chefs and co-owners of Jerusalem bakery Kadosh, which recently switched tokosher supervision with Tzohar and away from the Chief Rabbinate (Courtesy Kadosh)
April 20, 2021, 8:11 pm
Jerusalem’s Kadosh bakery drops Rabbinate kosher stamp for private alternative
Shift to supervision by Tzohar — which can’t legally call itself ‘kosher’ due to state monopoly — sparks cheers, curiosity and disappointment for some
By Jessica Steinberg
An Instant Pot. (CC BY Ajay-Suresh, Flickr)
April 18, 2021, 4:33 am
Kosher Instant Pot cookbook aims at home cooks facing 52 soups a year
Paula Shoyer’s latest effort offers 100 new kosher recipes for the smart multicooker, which is perfect for those under pressure to make massive feasts every Shabbat
By Jessica Steinberg
Israel Museum curator Sharon Weiser-Ferguson with items from the Jewish Art and Life wing, some donated by his parents in memory of Yadin Tanenbaum, who fell in the Yom Kippur War (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 14, 2021, 1:30 pm
‘Israeliana’ display at Israel Museum showcases country’s early memorabilia
A family’s collection in memory of their fallen son brings new area of interest to Jerusalem institution, even if it’s not considered ‘art’
By Jessica Steinberg
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