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Matthew Kalman
Matthew Kalman
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, right, and Lithuanian journalist Ruta Vanagaite in Jerusalem in this undated photo. (Courtesy)
August 8, 2020, 10:15 am
Nazi hunter teams up with Lithuanian journalist to investigate Holocaust crimes
Efraim Zuroff and Ruta Vanagaite chronicle a partnership and budding friendship as they seek to convince her countrymen to face a genocide perpetrated in part by their forebears
By Matthew Kalman
Rapper Wiley, left inset, has British Jews up in arms after an hours-long anti-Semitic Twitter storm. (Ian West/PA via AP). Center inset, British Jews protest anti-Semitism in Britain's Labour Party, March 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN). Background, Twitter logo. (AP/Richard Drew)
July 29, 2020, 12:41 pm
In post-Corbyn UK, Jews unite against Twitter’s lax response to anti-Semitism
Having learned from deep partisan rift over incidents of Jew-hatred in the Labour Party, British Jewry across the political, religious spectrum protests online hate speech together
By Matthew Kalman
Matthew Kalman
January 27, 2020, 6:16 pm
Matthew Kalman
Daytrip to the land of Jerusalem’s unicorns
Israel has at least 20 unicorns — more than France, Germany and Australia combined; in world rankings, only the US, China and UK have more
Armenian master ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work has become one of the defining characteristics of Jerusalem. (Wikimedia commons/CC-SA-3.0/Lantuszka)
November 16, 2019, 9:27 am
In 1918, the art of an Armenian genocide survivor changed Jerusalem forever
Written by David Ohannessian’s granddaughter, ‘Feast of Ashes’ tells how a top craftsman fled with his family to the Holy City, where his tilework is now a defining characteristic
By Matthew Kalman
The Khan Theatre in Jerusalem presents Anat Gov's 'Oh God.' (Yael Ilan)
June 19, 2019, 8:41 am
God stars in new English-language performances at Jerusalem’s Khan Theater
Times of Israel readers can enjoy special discounts on tickets for productions by Anat Gov and S.Y. Agnon in July
By Matthew Kalman
Matti Friedman’s newest book is 'Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel.' (Mary Anderson/Algonquin Books/via JTA)
April 2, 2019, 11:40 am
Author Matti Friedman to launch real-life spy thriller in a live ToI interview
Meet the writer at the Israel debut of his new book, hosted by The Times of Israel in partnership with Beit Avi Chai, in Jerusalem on April 10
By Matthew Kalman
Alice Shalvi, Israeli professor and educator, at her home in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 1, 2019, 1:09 pm
Through the glass ceiling: Meet Alice Shalvi, mother of Israeli feminism
Israeli icon to discuss her memoir ‘Never a Native’ at a January 15 event hosted by The Times of Israel, Beit Avi Chai and IsraelB
By Matthew Kalman
Natan Skop, left, as Hamlet, and Ira Skop as Ghost, in Theater in the Rough's production of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.' (Yitz Woolf)
August 16, 2018, 1:29 pm
This production of ‘Hamlet’ is a literal walk in the park
Jerusalem’s Theater in the Rough makes a triumph of Shakespeare’s tragedy, running through August 28
By Matthew Kalman
Director David Blumenfeld, and the poster for his documentary, 'Scandal in Ivansk.' (Courtesy)
April 1, 2018, 4:32 pm
Was this Polish shtetl’s pre-Holocaust Jewish history forgotten, or erased?
Matthew Kalman will speak with David Blumenfeld, director of ‘Scandal in Ivansk,’ which reveals secrets hidden by a Polish town still struggling with leftover Nazi-era guilt
By Matthew Kalman
February 20, 2018, 4:17 pm
Britain and Zionism: Did Margaret Thatcher betray Balfour?
Times of Israel Presents authors Elliot Jager and Azriel Bermant discussing their new books at Mishkenot Sha’ananim on February 27
By Matthew Kalman
Sivan Rahav-Meir. (Courtesy)
January 9, 2018, 12:03 pm
TV star Sivan Rahav-Meir to headline new season of live TOI English events
Beginning January 21, The Times of Israel presents journalists, rabbis, and original thinkers in our 2018 series of onstage conversations
By Matthew Kalman
'Totaled" author Brian Blum. (Courtesy)
October 16, 2017, 11:20 am
Author of new book on Better Place crash to speak at launch in Jerusalem
‘Totaled’ author Brian Blum will discuss the lessons of Shai Agassi’s disaster with Times of Israel readers on October 19
By Matthew Kalman
Yonatan Shiray, now an active combat soldier, in his foxtrotting scene in the award-winning film 'Foxtrot' (Courtesy 'Foxtrot')
October 10, 2017, 12:01 pm
‘Foxtrot’ director to speak at English screenings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
Samuel Maoz, award-winning director of the most talked-about Israeli movie of the year, will answer questions from Times of Israel readers at English-subtitled screenings
By Matthew Kalman
US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro, December 9, 2014. (Matty Stern/US Embassy)
June 27, 2017, 12:04 pm
Dan Shapiro, ahead of Sunday ToI interview: Western Wall move ‘damages Israel-US relations’
Ex-US ambassador, speaking ahead of July 2 Times of Israel event in Jerusalem, warns dispute with Diaspora Jews has strategic implications
By Matthew Kalman
Then US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro seen at a farewell session in the Knesset, on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 26, 2017, 10:23 am
Tickets on sale! Dan Shapiro at Times of Israel event, Sunday, July 2
Former US ambassador on Trump, Obama, Palestinians, and peace, at Jerusalem Cinematheque
By Matthew Kalman
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