Travel and Food

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — About 3.54 million tourists traveled to Israel in 2013, half a percent more than the previous record year of 2012 according to a report by the Israel Tourism Ministry.  Jerusalem was the most popular city to visit , with 75% of all incoming tourist traffic visiting the capital. Tel Aviv

PHILADELPHIA (Press Release) — The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced on Thursday, Jan. 9,  the acquisition of one of the nation’s leading private collections of contemporary art, formed by Keith L. and Katherine Stein Sachs. Ranging in date from the 1950s to the present, the promised gift of 97 works from the Sachs Collection represents

NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC condemned a Bangladeshi court decision to sentence Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of the Weekly Blitz, to seven years in prison for attempting to visit Israel more than a decade ago and for “harming the country’s interests” through his articles. The paper is the largest tabloid English-language weekly in

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned actress Emma Thompson and three dozen other British actors, for seeking the boycotting of Israel’s celebrated Habima Theater troupe, which is to perform later this year in a six-week theatrical festival taking place at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Thompson and her colleagues

JERUSALEM– Israel’s Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) movement on Wednesday, Jan. 8,  sent a letter to the Israeli government, demanding that it “enforce the law and remove Esh Kodesh, a West Bank settlement that was established in violation of Israeli law, whose residents have repeatedly attacked neighboring Palestinians,” according to a press release from the organization.

NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Jan. 8,  urged the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to hold the El Palestino Club soccer team accountable for violating FIFA regulations and its Code of Ethics during a soccer game on January 4, when its players replaced their standard uniform with jerseys imprinted

 By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Hayyim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934), recognized as the father of modern Hebrew poetry, will be brought to life by local Jewish educator and scholar, Gabriella Hartstein Labson at 7 p.m.,  Tuesday evening, January 21,  in the Astor Judaica Library, Lawrence Family JCC at Executive Drive and Genesee in La Jolla.

By Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org The weapons used by Palestinian terrorists against Jews are well known: suicide bombs, like the one that killed my daughter Alisa in 1995; knives, like the ones used to slaughter the Fogel family in Itamar two years ago; rifles, like the one used in the sniper shooting of the infant Shalhevet

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Friends of the IDF (FIDF) San Diego Chapter will host its 4th Annual Gala Appreciation Evening on Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront in San Diego. Over 650 prominent lay leaders and FIDF supporters from across the San Diego area are expected to attend the event and

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SAN DIEGO — Pianist and storyteller Jacquelyne Silver will present “The Extraordinary World of Glamour,” a show about Hollywood in the 1920’s and 1930’s,  to benefit the Women’s Museum of California, at 2 p.m., Sunday,  Jan. 12, at the museum located at 2730 Historic Decatur Road (Barracks 16) at Liberty Station (formerly Naval Training Center)