Famous jewish artists

Music on the double: Liturgical singer Lior Elmaleh offers a sonic bridge for all

The 51-year-old payetan – liturgical singer – has put together an impressive roster of artists for the occasion, culling top performers from the piyut domain alongside other musicians.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
LIOR ELMALEH presents a blend of rock and ‘piyut.’
The suspected 'Portrait of a Lady' in 2025.

Spotted in a Nazi’s daughter’s real estate ad: A painting looted from a famed Jewish art dealer

A painting by Giuseppe Ghislandi, looted by Nazis 85 years ago, was spotted in Argentina but vanished after being listed in a real estate ad. Interpol is now involved in the search.

|ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
Alon Olearchik (L) and Assaf Amdursky (R).

Alon Olearchik, Assaf Amdursky remove signatures from artists’ petition against Gaza war

KKL had canceled Olearchik’s appearance over the petition’s claims that the IDF was targeting children.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The artist Mark Podwal in his studio in 2007; at left, his illustration "Munich Massacre," drawn in memory of Israeli athletes killed by Black September terrorists during the 1972 Summer Olympics, was published in the New York Times that year.

Artist and physician Mark Podwal dies at 79

Mark Podwal, artist and physician, whose distinctive work adorned museums, synagogues, and opinion pages, will be remembered by his many admirers.

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

British film-makers demand cancellation of Israeli film festival

Over 40 film-makers and artist want cinemas to drop screenings of Israeli films due to Israeli governmental policy in the West Bank.

JUNE 9, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Protesters in London display placards and banners as they take part in demonstration against Israel [File]

Practical objectivism: The virtues of capitalism

MAY 5, 2015ByMILAD DOROUDIAN
The Jerusalem Post

The weird and wonderful world of Aya Ben-Ron

The Israeli artist explores the medical world in her new online platform, Front.

APRIL 26, 2015ByGRAHAM LAWSON
A SCREENSHOT of Aya Ben-Ron’s online exhibition ‘The Last Voyage to Cythera.’

Purim, the Battle of Waterloo and the guillotine

Deeper meaning in the Book of Esther.

MARCH 4, 2015ByNATHAN LOPES CARDOZO
YOUNGSTERS BROWSE at a costume shop on the capital’s Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall

Beshalah: Eating the manna and receiving the Torah

This week's Torah portion.

JANUARY 29, 2015ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Torah scroll

Make and break

Auto-destructive artist Gustav Metzger gets viewers up close and personal with familiar images, jolting them into discovering them anew.

MAY 29, 2014ByBARRY DAVIS
THE PIECE titled ‘To Crawl Into – Anschluss, Vienna, March 1938