Israeli choreographer and dancer Inbal Pinto presented her work “Living Room” at the 11th edition of the prestigious Prisma Festival in Panama City, held at the National Theatre of Panama. The Prisma hosts dancers from around the world, together with local performers, in a weeklong festival of dance before an audience of thousands. Last year, the directors of the Prisma festival were guests of the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater and participated in International Exposure, the Center’s annual platform for contemporary dance. They were impressed by Pinto’s show and invited her to present…
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Israeli musician Guy Mintus performed at two Jazz festivals in Greece in May. An Israeli-born and New York-based awarded pianist, composer and educator Mintus is very active in the Jazz contemporary scene with his Trio that also features Oren Harari and Yonatan Rosen.Credit: Embassy of Israel in GreeceThe Trio opened their time in Greece with a concert at the Athens Jazz festival, attended by thousands of people. The show took place in the central "Technopolis" hostel in the city.Mintus greeted the audience in Greek and thanked the Embassy of Israel in Greece for the support – the event was also…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed annually on January 27 and marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.The Israeli embassy in Ghana, headed by Ambassador Shlomit Sufa, held a special memorial assembly on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was attended by many local residents, as well as ambassadors and diplomatic staff from various countries.The culmination of the event was a lecture by Dr. Roy Horovitz of Bar Ilan University, entitled “The Holocaust in Israeli Theater.” Horovitz , who is both an academic and an active and well-known actor and director, demonstrated how Israeli playwrights regularly return to the…
A mural honoring Naftali Herz Imber, a Jewish Ukrainian Hebrew poet and the author of the words of Israel’s national anthem “Hatikva,” was inaugurated in the city of Lviv in April.Herz Imber was born in 1856 in the city of Złoczów, which back then was in Galicia and part the Austrian Empire and it is now located in Ukraine, around 60 kilometers from Lviv. He died in 1909 in New York.The mural was inaugurated by the Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky in a ceremony also attended by Lviv Mayor Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi, the city’s rabbi, Jewish leaders and…
Newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump has unveiled his plan to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip, aiming to transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” The initiative, estimated to cost hundreds of billions of dollars and with a projected timeline of 15 to 20 years, envisions massive investments in infrastructure, tourism, and economic development. At the heart of Trump’s vision is a drastic measure: the evacuation of Gaza’s entire population to countries willing to accept them, either voluntarily or by force. Once the area is vacated, the plan proposes leveling the region and rebuilding it into a thriving economic and…
A group of left-wing Israeli organizations submitted a letter to United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday, asking that he encourage Israel to discontinue military actions in the Gaza Strip and continue administering aid. The letter, which begins by condemning the October 7 massacre committed by Hamas but neglects to use the word “terrorist,” accuses Israel of not complying with the US instructions to act in self-defense in accordance with international law and the rules of war. Despite the implication that Israel is committing breaches of international law, the letter goes on to say that they do not wish to focus…
A rare mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, was found at Ostia Antica, near Rome, offering concrete evidence of a Jewish presence in ancient Roman Ostia. Italian Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli presented the discovery at the site, stating it is "unique in the Roman Mediterranean area and outside the land of Israel."The mikveh structure was tentatively dated to the late fourth or early fifth century CE. Elements dated between the 4th and 6th centuries CE suggjewishest that the mikveh continued to be used until the end of antiquity. This places it among the oldest examples of mikva'ot archaeologically documented…
Recent archaeological findings from Tinshemet Cave in central Israel have unveiled insights into the cultural and ritualistic interactions between Neanderthals and early modern humans during the Middle Paleolithic period. The analysis of these remains was published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.The Tinshemet Cave, located on the east bank of Nahal Beit Arif, only 10 km from the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, is an archaeological site of fundamental importance for understanding the origins of human society. According to Nature, the cave reveals a treasure trove of prehistoric human activity, including flint tools and animal bones.Archaeologists excavating Tinshemet Cave…
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The Australian state of Victoria is committed to banning Hamas and Hezbollah flags, masked protests, and restricting demonstrations as houses of worship in a bid to counter rising extremism and antisemitic incidents in the country, Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan announced on Tuesday.The Victorian government said that while the peaceful protest was protected under the 2006 Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act, the right had to be balanced with the right to safety.According to it, demonstrations since October 7 had seen “extreme, dangerous, and radical conduct” where antisemitism thrived. “Antisemitism thrives in extreme and radical environments, and we are…