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Esther without borders: Artists around the world reimagine the Purim story

For the past 34 years, Jerusalemite David Moss has been asking fellow artists from across the globe to interpret the story of Purim.

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'Sending The Story to All Lands' © Philip Carey, California (Photo: Shira Cohen Beck)

A day in the life: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon at Heathrow in 1964 (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How the Beatles got by with some help from their little-known Jewish friends

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Even our biblical ancestors sometimes got it wrong

Even our biblical ancestors sometimes got it wrong

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(L to R) Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli far-right lawmaker and leader of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish power) party, and Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli far-right lawmaker and leader of the Religious Zionist Party, attend a rally with supporters in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on October 26, 2022. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s religious Zionists live in a world that ended generations ago

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The poet who's given women a place in the Haggadah

Marcia Falk's new Haggadah highlights the hidden, female aspects of the Exodus

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April 14, 2022 10:30

The poet who's given women a place in the Haggadah

Icon of Israeli music

Meet Shlomo Bar - a star in Israel and his native Morocco

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April 18, 2018 10:25

Icon of Israeli music

Pulling in the A-List

Ronit Arbel on escoring Sir Paul McCartney, and countless other stars, around Israel.

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April 18, 2018 10:02

Pulling in the A-List

Classical music gets eastern spice

Israel is embracing sounds from the Arab world.

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April 17, 2018 16:50

Classical music gets eastern spice

Film that reveals the truth about the savagery of war

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August 6, 2015 15:00

Film that reveals the truth about the savagery of war

The battle to pray on the Temple Mount

Why tensions have risen around Judaism's most sacred site

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January 15, 2015 14:00

The battle to pray on the Temple Mount

Remember the Maccabees on Rosh Hashanah

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September 3, 2013 13:04

Remember the Maccabees on Rosh Hashanah

Why do we have to eat matzah on Pesach?

How the humble unleavened bread became the definitive food of Pesach

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March 24, 2013 10:00

Why do we have to eat matzah on Pesach?

Where is the incentive to vote?

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January 11, 2013 10:48

How the rabbis turned swords into candles

Why Chanucah recalls a miracle in the Temple rather than the Maccabees' military heroics.

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December 15, 2011 11:32

How the rabbis turned swords into candles

Dramatic lead

Tel Aviv’s theatre has entered a new stage of its always-inspiring

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November 11, 2011 16:09

The human city

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November 11, 2011 16:09

The human city

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