Magic

Sleight of mind: Israeli mentalist Ran Gafner shares his magic

Mentalist Ran Gafner combines music and magic to mesmerize audiences

MENTALIST/MUSICIAN Ran Gafner at work.
 LIOR SUCHARD.

Beyond a reasonable doubt with Lior Suchard

 SUCHARD performs his trick on the author.

Lior Suchard: From skepticism to awe

 URI GELLER: Spoon-bender, Israel advocate

Mystifier Uri Geller: Israel’s first global celebrity - interview


Bringing the Talmud to life - book review

The book The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave expresses less-studied emotional, interpersonal aspects of the rabbis in the Talmud.

Snake (illustrative)

Abracadabra: Israel Museum exhibit explores Jewish magic

A new exhibition features rare artifacts, including the earliest known instance of the Shema prayer used in a Jewish amulet.

 Manuscript of practical Kabbalah. Ukraine, ca. 1740, handwritten ink on paper. From the Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv

Israeli lab grows 'magic' mushrooms to treat depression

Psilocybin has been shown to have a positive effect in treating depression, anxiety, addiction, anorexia, obesity, cluster headaches, Alzheimer's, PTSD and a variety of personality disorders.

Psilocybin mushrooms grown on liquid and solid surfaces within the PsyRx lab in Rehovot.

Uri Geller claims ship in Suez Canal was moved by mind power

To release the ship, the famous mentalist is suggesting the world work together and will the ship free with their minds.

Israeli psychic Uri Geller poses for photographers in Cologne

Mind to mind – the power of a mentalist

Three times during live TV broadcasts, Salomon predicted the results of the Israeli elections.

ASSAF SALOMON: Breaking the glass at his wedding with the power of his mind

An amulet to cure a pandemic

The image of a great Jewish law jurist, a paragon of scholarly Talmudic learning, doling out mystical amulets was difficult for some minds to grasp.

A BROADSHEET warns of cholera symptoms and recommends remedies; London, 1831.

Daredevil David Blaine pulls off high flying balloon 'Ascension' stunt

"It's like magic, it feels like I'm floating in the air," Blaine said on a radio to his team of aides back on the ground after gently lifting off from a desert airstrip in Arizona.

Extreme performer David Blaine hangs with a parachute under a cluster of balloons during a stunt to fly thousands of feet into the air in a still image from video taken over Page, Arizona, U.S. September 2, 2020

World’s oldest Wiccan, a Jewish man, dies

Lamond was Jewish according to religious law, but found his true calling in Wicca. A modern religion which is inspired by pagan rites.

The Book of Shadows by Gerald Gardner

Roy Horn of Las Vegas magic duo Siegfried and Roy dies of COVID-19

Fischbacher and Horn, who were both born in Germany, co-founded their stage act after meeting on a cruise ship in the late 1950s before bringing the show to Las Vegas in 1967.

Roy Horn (L) and Siegfried Fischbacher (R)

‘Onward': not necessarily Pixar's best movie, but possibly its weirdest

The conceit of the movie is that although we are in a land populated by trolls, centaurs, and other mythic creatures, magic itself is a thing of the past, having long been eclipsed by science.

‘Onward’ finds Pixar not at its best, but possibly at its weirdest