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


Nature triumphs over story in ‘Vision’

Kawase has made films that mixed a feeling for nature with a compelling story.

‘Vision’

Captain America no more - Chris Evans leaves blockbuster role

Fans mourn after the announcement of the departure of Chris Evans' cherished Marvel superhero character.

Captain America

Steven Wilson returns to Tel Aviv

Will Ninet and Aviv Geffen turn up at February show?

Steven Wilson

An Israeli musician to release the first Ladino pop album

“Ladino was something of a forbidden language at our home,” Vazana said. To her father, a Fes native, it represented the opposite of fitting into Israeli society, Noam Vazana explained.

Noam Vazana_Live in Germany

Troye Sivan hosted Ariana Grande at his Passover Seder

Australian Jewish singer and actor has a new album, 'Bloom,' and is appearing in new film, 'Boy Erased'.

 Troye Sivan performs "Youth" at the 2016 Billboard Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., May 22, 2016.

Lana Del Rey pulls out of Meteor Festival

Event organizers say Pusha T, A$AP Ferg, Flying Lotus and more than 100 other artists are still slated to perform.

Lana Del Rey at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards New York, U.S., (January 28, 2018).

Top 10 things to do: Look East for Romance

Upcoming cultural events in Jerusalem and beyond.

downtown abbey

All sides now for Joni Mitchell tribute band

Cohen Talmor came across Mitchell’s work quite a few year earlier and was hooked from the get go.

Black Crow: We do stuff from almost all the various stages of Joni's career.

Florida Holocaust Museum takes rock 'n' roll detour in Bill Graham exhibit

The exhibit brings together hundreds of Graham family artifacts — including photographs, documents, memorabilia, multimedia clips and a psychedelic light installation.

Concert promoter Bill Graham

Haredim on TV

Recently, there’s been a virtual explosion of TV programs and series highlighting the haredi sector.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.