Eastern Electricity

Michel Gourary faces a daunting task every day. As the head of European Friends of Israel, it’s his job to persuade lawmakers to support the Jewish…

You’ve heard of birds of paradise? Well, if you travel to the Agmon- Hula Nature Reserve in Upper Galilee you can see paradise for the birds and…

"This was a hostile takeover," a female attendee from Turin, Italy, said at the close of the European Council of Jewish Communities conference in…

BERLIN – This will be a busy week for pro-Israel activists in Frankfurt and international Jewish leaders in Berlin. The European Council of Jewish…

The High Holidays are over. Family visits, trips and holiday meals are behind us and so, too, the greeting cards and calls from friends who connect…

I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I ever saw my father attired in anything but a suit and tie. Visiting me in Israel one summer, he…

Amit Lahav clearly isn’t looking for a cushy life. The hardworking, envelope pushing, 37-year-old codirector of the British-based Gecko Theater…

Thousands of Jews could have been saved if the British Mandate authorities had not been so ferociously aggressive in enforcing the White Paper,…

HatikvaBy Astrith Baltsan | Ministry of Education | 155 pages; 2 CDs NIS 41.40The national anthem, “Hatikva,” has remained a mystery until…

Balkan Beat Box Hangar 11 Tel AvivFebruary 3It’s a sight seen all too often in the music industry: a band makes a great album or two, gets noticed,…

It’s either seasonal or perhaps a superior being persuading Israeli art collectors and corporate patrons to unlock their archives and provide the…

Tomorrow many countries will mark InternationalHolocaust Remembrance Day, established by the UN in 2005. Yet at thesame time, there is a movement…

Tomorrow many countries will mark InternationalHolocaust Remembrance Day, established by the UN in 2005. Yet at thesame time, there is a movement…

Hapoel Jerusalem can not afford to lose to KK Zadar at the Malha Arena on Tuesday evening if it has any intention of progressing past the group stage…

BERLIN - It's Monday November 9, 2009 and just meters from Berlin's famed Alexanderplatz, the scene of many noisy demonstrations for the…

People generally speak about the Holocaust and the Nazis as if they are only part of the past. Movies such as Quentin Tarantino's recently released…

With the continued economic crisis in the United States, the tumbling dollar and the prospects of the US losing its sole superpower status, more and…

The recent revelation that the gas-station-attendant-turned-Liberian-warlord Charles Taylor has converted to Judaism once again reminds us that he is…

US President Barack Obama on Thursday shelved a Bush-era plan for an Eastern European missile defense plan that has been a major irritant in US…

The Obama administration has developed possible alternative plans for a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, the New York Times…