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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Karen Chernick

The 'Masterpieces' exhibition at the Mishkan Museum at Kibbutz Ein Harod, autumn 2024. (Photo by Daniel Hanoch)
November 17, 2024, 6:02 am
In new exhibit, Israeli museum responds to wartime isolation with ‘respins’ of great works
Running through February, ‘Masterpieces’ at the Mishkan Museum in Kibbutz Ein Harod contains 300 works by 47 artists, including rethinks of ‘The Last Supper’ and ‘Guernica’
By Karen Chernick
'Signaling' by Michal Rovner is projected onto the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, January 12, 2024. (Courtesy of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art/Photo by Yaron Eini)
March 10, 2024, 7:30 pm
Despite vandalism and protests, NY gallery Pace showcases Israeli artist as planned
Exhibition of Michal Rovner’s ongoing ‘Pragim’ series opens on schedule March 7 after art houses across the city are defaced by anti-Israel protesters following Hamas atrocities
By Karen Chernick
From left to right: Caroline Aaron, Henry Winkler, Aleeza Chanowitz and Elkie Jacobs during filming of 'Chanshi.' (Vered Adir/ Courtesy of Kastina Communications and HOT)
November 30, 2022, 1:46 am
How a ‘Mrs. Maisel’ star wound up filming a show about an Orthodox girl in Israel
Caroline Aaron, who plays Shirley Maisel, says she didn’t think twice about making her virgin voyage to the Holy Land to star in HOT series ‘Chanshi’ – alongside her best friend
By Karen Chernick
Footage from the Lumière brothers, capturing a train pulling into Jaffa station in 1896, is accessible on the Israel Film Archive website. (Screenshot from Israel Film Archive/via JTA)
January 8, 2022, 9:46 am
Over a century of historical Israeli footage is now online, and it’s a revelation
The Israel Film Archive opens a trove of films previously closed to the public that shows wars, elections and vintage advertisements, thanks to a yearslong $10M digitization effort
By Karen Chernick
Kathryn Drysdale of Netflix hit 'Bridgerton,' at Claridge’s for the virtual SAG Awards in March 2021, photographed by Blake Ezra (Courtesy Blake Ezra)
June 15, 2021, 4:02 pm
UK photographer fed up with antisemitic fake news turns lens to social media
During Operation Guardian of the Walls, Blake Ezra widened his aperture to focus on fighting online hate and busting myths with his popular Instagram account
By Karen Chernick
Lily Renée Phillips. (Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äußeres/CC) and one of her characters, Señorita Rio, who fought Nazis. (Lily Renée Collection/via JTA)
March 14, 2021, 11:51 pm
Overlooked Jewish female artist from comics’ golden age escaped real WWII peril
Vienna-born Lily Renee Phillips fled Austria after the 1938 Anschluss, escaped to England on a Kindertransport and reunited with her parents in New York in 1940
By Karen Chernick
Delicious Experiences connects customers with chefs for one-on-one video lessons. (Joann Pai/Delicious Experiences via JTA)
August 1, 2020, 10:28 am
Israeli platform pairs would-be tourists with chefs for private online lessons
When the pandemic struck, Inbal Baum’s clients stopped coming to Israel for foodie experiences, so she’s bringing some of the world’s top culinary masters to them — virtually
By Karen Chernick
Designer Yoav Gati makes doodles out of discarded gloves. (Courtesy of Yoav Gati/ via JTA)
May 15, 2020, 9:54 am
How Tel Aviv creatives made art out of the COVID-19 crisis
From giving stories and discarded gloves on the street to outfitting portraits on shekel bills with personal protective gear, Israelis aren’t wasting a chance to make a statement
By Karen Chernick
Illustrative: A plate of hummus. (Teodora Djordjevic/ Getty Images)
February 4, 2020, 4:38 am
Is it still hummus if cocoa or mango is added to the chickpeas?
A dizzying array of new kinds of hummus are gracing American supermarket shelves; Israeli reactions range from acceptance to dismay
By Karen Chernick
The recently renovated Beit Leibling in Tel Aviv, which offered an opportunity to reexamine imports of German goods into Israel in the 1930s. (Courtesy, Yael Shemi)
December 2, 2019, 10:23 am
The Nazi secret lurking inside some of Tel Aviv’s most beautiful buildings
Discoveries made in Leibling House, a recently renovated cultural center, reveal the German foundations of much of Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus-inflected 1930s construction
By Karen Chernick
Nachmani 23, then and now (Courtesy Ronna Mink)
August 17, 2019, 8:02 pm
Old photo of iconic Tel Aviv hotel puts Buffalo bootlegger back in the picture
Wealthy great-grandparents bought a building on Nachmani St. in 1937; nearly 70 years later, it was turned into one of the city’s premier boutique hotels, The Norman. Who knew?!
By Karen Chernick
Head Tel Aviv zookeeper Johnny Zusia walking a tiger in the streets of Tel Aviv. (Courtesy Collection of Meitar Boris Carmi)
June 1, 2019, 9:03 am
The crazy tale of Tel Aviv’s Rabbi Dolittle, who brought animal world to Israel
Exhibit and new film ‘There Are No Lions in Tel Aviv’ tell curious, heartwarming tale of Mordechai Shorenstein, a Danish rabbi whose love for wildlife found an expanding audience
By Karen Chernick
Peggy Guggenheim at the 24th Venice Biennale in 1948 with 'Interior,' a work by her daughter Pegeen Vail. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, via JTA)
May 10, 2019, 4:45 pm
How Peggy Guggenheim helped put modern Israeli art on the map
40 years after her death, and as the 2019 Biennale opens, how the Venice-based collector jump-started the Tel Aviv Museum of Art with a remarkable donation
By Karen Chernick
'Portal, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 1844,' A daguerrotype by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey. (Bibliotheque nationale de France/Metropolitan Museum of Art via JTA)
February 13, 2019, 4:06 am
The earliest surviving photographs of Jerusalem live on in historic exhibit
Images by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey of sites such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, now at the Met Museum, show life in the Holy Land 175 years ago
By Karen Chernick
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