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.

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

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

 DANIEL GAD (left) and Michael Aloni in ‘The Stronghold.’

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


Alana Haim makes acting debut in star-studded Paul Thomas Anderson film

The coming-of-age film stars the youngest Haim sister as a teenage actor in Los Angeles’ San Fernando valley — the exact location where the Haim family grew up.

From left: Jack Antonoff, Doja Cat and the Haim Sisters.

Britney Spears wants out. What happens next in her conservatorship?

Legal experts say that wanting out of a court-appointed conservatorship is easier said than done. Spears, now 39, will have to convice the judge that she is capable of managing her personal affairs.

Singer Britney Spears arrives at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards in New York

Israeli comics geeks to assemble for post-COVID in-person convention

Comics-Con will arrive in Israel for the first time ever, taking place on July 9 at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art.

COMICS-CON WILL FEATURE a wide variety of unique exhibits and lectures, including a large display of 50 sculptures of various characters from comics, films and other aspects of geekdom.

Australian music industry giant Michael Gudinski dies at 68

The son of Russian-Jewish parents who immigrated to Australia in 1948, Gudinski started Mushroom Records in 1972 at age 20.

 Michael Gudinski, 16 January 2013.

The Jewish muscleman who likely inspired the creators of Superman

A popular Yiddish saying went, “If a thousand Breitbarts were to arise among the Jews, the Jewish people would cease being persecuted.”

Siegmund Breitbart, who could pull heavy weights with his teeth, was considered one of the strongest men in the world.

Ari Gold, yeshiva student-turned-pop star and LGBTQ icon, dies at 47

Gold released seven albums, worked with homeless gay youth and worked to raise awareness about AIDS. While no longer Orthodox, he stayed connected to his Jewish identity.

Pop star and LGBTQ+ icon Ari Gold

Peter Gabriel cites Israeli 'racism' as one reason for re-recording 'Biko'

“Although the white minority government has gone in South Africa, the racism around the world that apartheid represented has not ,” he told Rolling Stone.

Peter Gabriel in 2004

Evan Rachel Wood Alleges Marilyn Manson Abused Her

"The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson. He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years."

EVAN RACHEL WOOD stars in HBO’s fantasy series ‘Westworld.’

Phil Spector, famed producer, dies of COVID at 81

Jewish recording genius convicted of murder in 2003, spent final years in prison

Music producer Phil Spector attends his murder trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2007.

Sean Connery – cool, sexy and unflappable

Watching Connery – who was handsome but also projected qualities that made him so much more than just a pretty face – on the big screen was one of the purest joys of moviegoing.

Sean Connery as James Bond in the 1960s.