Pop culture

Taylor Swift leads charts as Israel's favorite artist, album, song of 2025

The top 20 songs featured artists such as Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Olivia Dean, who was also voted by Israelis as the breakout artist of 2025.

|BySHIR PERETS
A general view of a Nashville area Starbucks that has been transformed into a Starbies pop up celebrating the release of Taylor Swift's new album "The Life Of A Showgirl" on October 03, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tiferet Sigala (L) and Yarden Cohen.

Tiferet Sigala, Yarden Cohen: Giving space, community for Jerusalem’s teen geeks

Jerusalemite of the Week: Geek Space has been a place where nerdy teenagers can get together and find the community they need.

|ByAARON REICH
Singer Lorde attends Variety's 2021 Power of Women event at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. September 30, 2021

Lorde to join 'no music for genocide' anti-Israel boycott

Lorde and over 1000 music industry professionals are geo-blocking their music, making it inaccessible for Israeli listeners.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DANIEL GAD (left) and Michael Aloni in ‘The Stronghold.’

From Yom Kippur War to Eurovision: Israeli Special TV for the holidays

Israel’s Independence and Remembrance Days get a thoughtful TV treatment in 2025.

|ByHANNAH BROWN

Enter the world of Keith Haring in new Herzliya exhibit

Haring died of AIDS-related complications at the age of 31 in 1990, and since then, he’s been the subject of several international retrospectives.

MARCH 12, 2023BySHANNA FULD
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER Allan Tannenbaum with an image of Keith Haring at the exhibit opening on Wednesday.

Space burial company to send DNA of four US presidents into deep space

There will be additional cremated remains and DNA samples of Star Trek icons and legends on board as well.

MARCH 6, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
View of the Earth from outer space

What did Israelis Google in 2022? An overview

Israeli search trends on Google in 2022 signaled more of a return to normalcy.

DECEMBER 7, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A computer user poses in front of a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Brussels May 30, 2014.

Julia Garner and Brett Goldstein repeat as Jewish Emmy winners

Here's everything Jewish about Monday night's Emmy awards:

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Brett Goldstein poses for a picture with the award for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series, for "Ted Lasso", at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.

Finland's PM attacked for being young and happy

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The woman who initially represented a peaceful nation’s will to live, now also embodies a brave nation’s willingness to fight. 

AUGUST 26, 2022ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
FINLAND’S Prime Minister Sanna Marin participates in the Helsinki Pride 2022 march last month.

Eurovision 2023: Pop star Noa Kirel to represent Israel

"We received the news with complete surprise. We are happy and thankful for the choice of Noa and are proud to represent the State of Israel with dignity," said Noa Kirel's representatives.

JULY 11, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli singer Noa Kirel attends a press conference on a new campaign to raise awareness of cyberbullying among youth, at the President Residence in Jerusalem on February 16, 2020.

The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is now in Yiddish

Now the Jewish world knows how to say “SpongeBob SquarePants” in Yiddish, thanks to a translation of the animated kid show’s theme song by Eddy Portnoy.

JUNE 14, 2022ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
The Spongebob SquarePants with Gary the Snail balloon hovers above the crowd during the 93rd Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, U.S., November 28, 2019.

The MozART quartet brings us its unique mix of melody and fun

This is classical music meets pop culture meets acrobatics and a fair bit of lampooning into the bargain.

MAY 18, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
THE POLISH-based MozART Group.

Season 2 of ‘Russian Doll’ promises to be even more Jewish

Not only will the new season of “Russian Doll” continue to explore Nadia’s Jewishness, but there’s the very distinct possibility we will meet her character’s Hungarian, Holocaust-surviving grandma.

APRIL 6, 2022ByEVELYN FRICK/JTA
Natasha Lyonne

The top Jewish pop culture stories from 2021

Below, you can find the greatest hits of JTA’s 2021 Jewish pop-culture coverage.

DECEMBER 24, 2021ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Cast members Richard Lewis, Susie Essman, Jeff Garlin, Larry David and Cheryl Hines (L-R) attend the premiere of the seventh season of the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in Los Angeles September 15, 2009.