Jessica Steinberg

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

From Photomenta exhibit opening September 21, 2021, at Eretz Israel Museum (Courtesy Nadir Bucan)

September 17, 2021, 7:32 am

Leave your Sukkot booths to view films, exhibits and shows

The week of Sukkot offers a cornucopia of events, with museums, festivals, sites and troupes prepared to entertain

By Jessica Steinberg

A sukkah perched on an IDF vehicle during the Yom Kippur War (Courtesy Nathan Fendrich/Pritzer Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel)

September 15, 2021, 11:07 am

Rare photos show soldiers’ sukkot during Yom Kippur War

Pictures taken in Sinai and on Golan by US tourist Nathan Fendrich now part of National Library of Israel collection

By Jessica Steinberg

Philanthropist Dan David, for whom the Dan David Prize is named, and which now is considered the largest history prize in the world (Courtesy Dan David Foundation)

September 15, 2021, 10:46 am

Dan David prize becomes largest history award in world

Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, endowment will give 9 scholars $300,000 apiece for achievements in study of human history

By Jessica Steinberg

Yiddishist Ruth Wisse will talk about Chaim Grade's seminal short story, 'My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner,' for Beit Avi Chai on September 12, 2021 (Courtesy TeleTime for the Tikvah Fund)

September 12, 2021, 4:36 pm

Famed Yiddishist Ruth Wisse discusses soul-searching in seminal short story

In Beit Avi Chai online conversation ahead of the Day of Atonement, Wisse and historian Asael Abelson take long look at ‘My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner’

By Jessica Steinberg

From 'Sister of Mine,' a Maaleh Film School short featured in the school's digital tour of Jerusalem (Courtesy Maaleh)

September 9, 2021, 7:47 pm

Jerusalem film school offers camera’s-eye view of the holy city

Viewers invited to take a tour of three parts of the capital through short dramatic films created by Ma’aleh student filmmakers

By Jessica Steinberg

Amiram Moierman, 85, is a lifelong fruit farmer who's been fighting the battle against encroaching imports. In his Karmei Yosef orchards, June 2021. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

September 7, 2021, 2:32 pm

The fruit farmer who swears by his pomegranates (and loquats and apricots)

Amiram Moerman says pomegranate juice saved him from the coronavirus, but rails against the Israeli government and its latest efforts to change the local farming industry

By Jessica Steinberg

From left: Sam Spiegel director Dana Blankstein Cohen, prizewinner Netalie Braun and film lab director Aurit Zamir at the 9th edition of the Sam Spiegel film lab, August 28, 2021 (Courtesy Yossi Zwecker)

September 2, 2021, 9:58 pm

Awards for promising young directors at Sam Spiegel film lab

Top prize goes to Israeli filmmaker, with runner-up split between films from Cyprus and Brazil and new artistic vision prize

By Jessica Steinberg

Tamir Grinberg, the vocalist who won 'HaKochav Haba," the Keshet 12 reality music show, on September 1, 2021. (Courtesy: Keshet 12)

September 2, 2021, 9:23 pm

English-singing pianist wins music reality show ‘Rising Star’

Tamir Grinberg, also a vocalist and composer, takes home NIS 1 million; seen as a prodigy, he has been performing since his teens

By Jessica Steinberg

Jimmy Buffett attends the LA Premiere of "The Beach Bum" at ArcLight Hollywood on March 28, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

August 31, 2021, 4:20 pm

Jimmy Buffett’s famed bar ballad gets Yiddish translation

Kletzmer trio repurposes ‘Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw’ in honor of the singer’s latest Margaritaville resort in NYC’s Times Square, which houses a shul on its bottom floors

By Jessica Steinberg

Director Quentin Tarantino at the opening of the Jerusalem Film Festival on August 24, 2021 (Courtesy Jerusalem Cinematheque)

August 27, 2021, 3:13 pm

Tarantino: Hollywood snubbed ’80s Israeli directors ‘in an antisemitic way’

Acclaimed film director heaps praise on filmmakers Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus during Jerusalem Film Festival, says he had admired them at the time

By Jessica Steinberg

Guitarist Berry Sakharoff, one of the Israeli musicians chosen by Apple Music to share his current playlist for the Jewish New Year. (courtesy, Apple Music)

August 26, 2021, 8:09 pm

Apple Music marks Rosh Hashanah with Israeli artists’ playlists

Berry Sakharov, Omer Adam, Noa Kirel, Miri Mesika, Ravid Plotnick and Ella Lee share the songs that made their year

By Jessica Steinberg

A swirling vine painted on the walls of an apartment building entrance are part of traveling museum Zumu in Lod, August 24-28, 2021. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

August 26, 2021, 1:21 pm

After spring of strife, Lod opens its doors to artists of traveling museum Zumu

Curator Melina Gitzin Adiram saw her planned exhibit derailed by ethnic violence; she changed focus and now hopes to heal some rifts through art emplaced in residential spaces

By Jessica Steinberg

The 38th Jerusalem Film Festival opened with the Israeli premiere of 'Where is Anne Frank' at Sultan's Pool on August 24, 2021 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

August 25, 2021, 3:16 pm

Ari Folman’s animated ‘Where is Anne Frank?’ opens Jerusalem Film Fest

Long-awaited feature offers a fantastical premise based on Kitty, the diarist’s fictional friend

By Jessica Steinberg

Julia Fermentto Tzaisler, the new artistic director of the Jerusalem International Writers Festival (Courtesy Ziv Bercovich)

August 25, 2021, 3:13 pm

Jerusalem International Writers Festival gets new director

Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler says she plans to ‘shuffle the cards’ at next year’s event and acquaint guests ‘not only with the big stars, but also with lesser-known voices’

By Jessica Steinberg

Uri Jeremias, owner of the famed Acre establishments Uri Buri and the Efendi Hotel, at his pop-up restaurant following the May 2021 firebombing at the original site that is currently being renovated.(courtesy, Uri Buri)

August 23, 2021, 12:25 am

Historic Acre hotel to reopen after deadly firebombing during May riots

The Efendi and its sister establishment, famed fish restaurant Uri Buri, are back in business, following destruction caused by Jewish-Arab violence

By Jessica Steinberg