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Pop icon Christina Aguilera sends a recorded message to Israeli fans ahead of her August 10, 2023, show in Rishon Lezion's Live Park (Courtesy PR)
June 25, 2023, 5:14 pm
Christina Aguilera promises ‘unforgettable night’ for 1st Israel show
Pop icon says she’s ‘excited’ to see fans during inaugural performance on August 10 in Rishon Lezion Live Park
By Jessica Steinberg
Young opera singer students performing in the 2022 summer opera program in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Noy Dekel)
June 25, 2023, 1:24 pm
In Tel Aviv, indoor and outdoor arias from singers in training
City’s Conservatory of Music hosts three weeks of free and ticketed performances
By Jessica Steinberg
Amari Bailey participates during the NBA basketball Draft Combine in Chicago, May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
June 23, 2023, 11:43 pm
Jewish guard Amari Bailey drafted 41st overall by Charlotte Hornets
UCLA player, son of former NFL wide receiver Aaron Bailey, is heading to North Carolina; team is in process of being sold by Michael Jordan
By jacob gurvis
Sally Ann Friedland (left) and Dana Markus in 'Zebra, A Duet for Two Women' premiering June 24, 2023 at Suzanne Dellal's Studio Zehava & Jack. (Courtesy: Sharon Zindany)
June 23, 2023, 4:09 pm
At 71, a dancer tangos with time for comeback after 30 years
Sally-Anne Friedland, who has been teaching and directing in the interim, returns to choreograph and perform autobiographical ‘Zebra,’ with partner 40 years her junior
By Jessica Steinberg
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, right. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, Stephan Savoia)
June 22, 2023, 9:26 pm
Musk challenges Zuckerberg to a fight; Facebook chief accepts
Tech billionaires apparently agree to scrap in social media back-and-forth
By AP
Rosella parrots found concealed in the suitcase of an Israeli man at Ben Gurion Airport, June 21, 2023. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
June 22, 2023, 11:41 am
Smuggler nabbed at airport with dozens of parrots in his suitcase
Man arrives on flight from Belgium with 28 rosellas, a species prohibited for import to Israel due to ecological concerns
By ToI Staff
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan on 24 March 2011 (Goldnpuppy/Wikimedia CC BY-SA)
June 22, 2023, 7:53 am
‘Jeopardy!’ features Michigan synagogue in clue
Grandson of Holocaust survivors gets answer wrong, but still wins; Shaarey Zedek in Southfield was once described as ‘a concrete Sinai on the shoulder of Interstate 696’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Harry Styles performing at the Brit Awards 2023 in London, February 11, 2023. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
June 22, 2023, 6:09 am
Harry Styles thanks Orthodox friends for walking miles to concert on Shabbat
Pop star tells crowd of 90,000 he’s grateful to Ben and Meredith Winston, who hosted him at their home early in his career
By Gabe Friedman
Portraits of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Hebrew Union College, left, and Rabbi Sally Priesand, the first American woman ordained as a rabbi, right. (Courtesy/Hebrew Union College and the National Portrait Gallery via JTA. Design by Mollie Suss)
June 22, 2023, 4:53 am
National Portrait Gallery to display image of 1st ordained US woman rabbi
Rabbi Sally Priesand will be featured in prestigious Smithsonian Institution, along with prominent 19th century Reform rabbi, Isaac Mayer Wise
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Michael Jordan, left, is selling his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets to a group led by Gabe Plotkin, right. (Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images; Wikimedia Commons)
June 21, 2023, 5:56 pm
Jewish millionaires buy Charlotte Hornets from Michael Jordan
Group led by Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall pays an estimated $3 billion to buy the basketball legend’s majority stake in the NBA franchise
By jacob gurvis
In this February 2006 file photo, an Uruguayan worker directs the salvage the eagle of World War II German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo, Uruguay. (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez, File)
June 20, 2023, 6:06 am
Uruguay still stuck with Nazi eagle after president pulls peace dove plan
Vexed by 800-pound relic recovered from sunken ship, Luis Lacalle Pou suggested melting it into a peace dove, a plan decried as akin to turning Auschwitz into a nudist colony
By Juan Melamed
From the upcoming 12th Hansen House Design Week in Jerusalem, June 22-29, 2023, by Esmee Willemen. (Courtesy: PR)
June 19, 2023, 7:22 pm
Truth and lies get creative treatment at Jerusalem Design Week
Former leper hospital Hansen House shows off recent renovation and works of 170 designers and architects at 12th annual event
By Jessica Steinberg
At a past Tel Aviv International Day of Yoga, sponsored by Indian embassies around the world on June 21, the longest day of the year (Courtesy PR)
June 19, 2023, 5:13 pm
Grab a mat for International Day of Yoga
The Indian Embassy is celebrating yoga with classes, Indian music and meditation at locations throughout the country
By Jessica Steinberg
A screenshot from redbuscitytours.com.
June 19, 2023, 7:32 am
Double-decker tourist buses to debut in Jerusalem
The new line will take travelers around Jerusalem’s top sites including the Old City, Israel Museum and Mahane Yehuda market
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Gal Gadot in 'Heart of Stone.' (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 18, 2023, 8:30 am
Wonder Woman to super spy: Gal Gadot previews new action flick
Israeli actress stars in ‘Heart of Stone,’ produced with her husband, in which she plays an agent for a secret peacekeeping organization trying to save the world
By Stuart Winer
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