Israel News News Israel » Culture: Israel's Culture Minister Pushes Bill to Freeze Funds for Arts Organizations Highlighting Palestinian Narratives
TEL AVIV — A new bill from the office of Israel’s culture minister, Miri Regev, has proposed to cut funding from culture organizations that criticize the State of Israel or highlight the Palestinian ...
News Israel » Culture: Federation to host Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration of Israel’s independence
The Jewish Federation of Cleveland will host its annual Yom Ha’atzmaut event in celebration of Israel’s 78th Independence Day from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 22 at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation ...
News Israel » Culture: Culture minister says Gaza belongs to Israel, Palestinians merely 'there as guests'
Culture Minister Miki Zohar, of the ruling Likud party, said on Thursday that Gaza belongs to Israel, and that the roughly 2.3 million Palestinians in the enclave are “guests” whom Israel is merely ...
News Israel » Culture: In Yes!, Israeli director Nadav Lapid skewers his country’s ‘moral abyss’ after Oct. 7
Lapid is aware that his satirical film will be a bitter pill for many Diaspora Jews to swallow, but he has never shied away from his own convictions.
News Israel » Culture: Speakers Discuss Israeli Conscription Policies, Culture
Israeli citizens Khaled Farrag and Yasmin Yablonko defended their refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces because of the Israeli government’s treatment of the Druze and Palestinian communities ...
News Israel » Culture: Pro-Israel groups at FSU host 'Israel Fair'
Several Jewish and pro-Israel organizations hosted the Israel Fair, which was met with a protest by Tallahassee Students for a Democratic Society.
News Israel » Culture: 42 Jewish authors slam Jewish Book Council for ‘centering Israeli and Zionist voices’
The open letter, which accuses the literary organization of betraying its mission, was signed by two Bay Area authors.
News Israel » Culture: How US, Israel are waging a war on Iranian culture, education
The war on Iran began on February 28 with a strike on an elementary girls’ school, Shajareh Tayyebeh, in the city of Minab in southern Iran. At least 170 people, most of them girls aged between seven ...
News Israel » Culture: From Israel to Morocco to an HBCU in New Orleans, these Jewish artists are searching for home
Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen teach the most popular elective at Xavier University. At least for now. The class does not begin with a lecture. Instead, Neta Elkayam stands at the front of the room ...
News Israel » Culture: How Jewish heritage projects in Morocco are being used to push pro-Israel politics
Amidst worthy projects to preserve and promote Morocco’s Jewish identity, organisations linked to Israel seek to dilute the pro-Palestine sympathies of Moroccan youth ...