Jessica Steinberg

Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.

Shira Haas (left) and Alena Yiv (right) in 'Asia,' Ruthy Pribar's devastating debut film screening in Israel at the end of June 2021 (Courtesy PR)

June 23, 2021, 2:49 pm

Award-winning movie ‘Asia,’ set in Jerusalem, to hit Israeli theaters

Mother-daughter drama, woven with threads from first-time filmmaker Ruthy Pribar’s life, offers quiet intensity with emotional acting from Shira Haas and Alena Yiv

By Jessica Steinberg

The Gipsy Kings by Andre Reyes will perform four nights in Israel in September 2021 (Courtesy Sergey Demanchuk)

June 16, 2021, 5:01 pm

Gipsy Kings break-off band to perform in Israel in September

Andre Reyes’s band will bring Spanish and flamenco sound to Tel Aviv, Beersheba and Haifa

By Jessica Steinberg

Salvador Dali's 'Unicorn' sculpture will be on display as part of a traveling Salvador Dali exhibit at the Herzliya Arena from July 9, 2021 (Courtesy Art Investment Partners SL)

June 16, 2021, 3:44 pm

Massive Salvador Dali exhibit to open in Herzliya

More than 100 works by the Spanish artist coming to Israel in July as part of the Dali Universe traveling installation

By Jessica Steinberg

A refurbished Jaffa well house, part of the tours being given for Batim Mibifnim, taking place June 17-19, 2021 (Courtesy Amit Herman)

June 15, 2021, 7:48 pm

Open House Tel Aviv tours offer a taste of local architecture

This year’s Batim Mibifnim event will focus on Jaffa and South Tel Aviv, with design gems opening their doors to the public June 17-19

By Jessica Steinberg

Audience members reading material in one of 11 stations of 'Macho Man,' an audiovisual installation about domestic violence, part of the Israel Festival, taking place June 2021 (Courtesy Marti Artalejo)

June 15, 2021, 7:18 pm

‘Macho Man’ installation brings domestic violence to fore at Israel Festival

Spanish project offers chilling audiovisual experience adapted for local audience with rabbinical court rulings, account of alleged Cyprus gang-rape of Brit by Israelis

By Jessica Steinberg

Etgar Keret, right, and Shuli Rand, center, in their initial Writers Festival appearance in Jerusalem that was reprised June 14, 2021 (Courtesy Mishkenot Shaananim)

June 15, 2021, 10:35 am

Together again, Etgar Keret and Shuli Rand entertain onstage

Israeli writer, actor reprise their writers’ festival event for another Jerusalem audience

By Jessica Steinberg

Photographer Moshe Gold was sitting at an Acre restaurant when he looked up and saw this teen diving into the water; now included in his exhibit, 'From The Beginning,' June 3-23, 2021, Jerusalem Cinematheque (Courtesy Moshe Gold)

June 11, 2021, 10:36 pm

A tour guide-turned-photographer’s view of Israeli sites and scenes

‘From the Beginning,’ an exhibit of photos taken by Moshe Gold when work dried up during pandemic, goes on show at Jerusalem Cinematheque, offering a new look at familiar places

By Jessica Steinberg

President Reuven Rivlin speaking at the opening of the Jerusalem Film Festival, July 25, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

June 9, 2021, 2:56 pm

Jerusalem Film Festival scheduled for August, in person

Annual event is back on track after last year’s online version

By Jessica Steinberg

Trumpeter Avishai Cohen, artistic director of the Jerusalem Jazz Festival (Courtesy Johan Jacobs)

June 8, 2021, 8:32 pm

Jazz festival returns to Israel Museum with all-Israeli lineup

Artists from abroad unable to participate due to COVID-19 travel restrictions; performances to take place outside, in museum’s sculpture garden

By Jessica Steinberg

The soft-Brutalist main building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which just received a $15 million gift (Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)

June 8, 2021, 8:07 pm

Tel Aviv Museum of Art receives $15 million gift

Paulson Family Foundation donation to be used to upgrade museum’s iconic main building and expand programming

By Jessica Steinberg

President Ruby Rivlin with Nechama Spiegel Novak, the first ultra-Orthodox woman pilot, whose portrait is portrayed in 'Hamsa Aleinu,' a new exhibit at Ben Gurion Airport (Courtesy GPO)

June 8, 2021, 4:04 pm

On the way to the plane, photos show pieces of the Israeli jigsaw

New exhibit ‘Hamsa Aleinu’ is displayed along the concourse of Ben Gurion International Airport

By Jessica Steinberg

The ensemble cast of 'Hamefakedet,' from Kan 11, about a team of officers and their basic training recruits (Courtesy Kan)

June 7, 2021, 8:48 pm

Commander in cheek: IDF misfit and oddball charges turn army quirks into hit TV

Series puts awkward officer in charge of training squad of outsiders, in a dramedy based on co-creator’s own army service

By Jessica Steinberg

The Jerusalem Orchestra East West will perform 'Waiting for Nissim' with conductor Tom Cohen, and the book's authors, Shira Gefen and Etgar Keret, at the Israel Festival on June 17, 2021 (Courtesy Hayim Yafim Barblet)

June 4, 2021, 9:07 am

Children’s book by Keret and Gefen comes to life with musical rendition

Tom Cohen will conduct the Jerusalem Orchestra East West, with Etgar Keret and Shira Gefen in character at the Israel Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

From director Nadav Lapid's latest film, 'Ahed's Knee,' which will be competing at the Cannes Film Festival in July 2021. (courtesy, Shai Goldman)

June 3, 2021, 11:49 pm

Two Israeli film directors competing at Cannes

New flicks from award-winning Nadav Lapid and Eran Kolirin will feature at renowned French event

By Jessica Steinberg

Tina (far right), an Arab resident of Acre, with some of her neighbors. She tried to protect the Jewish-owned gallery where she worked during the recent unrest in the mixed city, and is asking how and why this happened in her city (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

June 3, 2021, 7:45 pm

In Acre, known for Arab-Jewish coexistence, residents grapple with recent unrest

Following a week of chaos and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, locals regroup and try to move forward

By Jessica Steinberg