Pop culture

Taylor Swift leads charts as Israel's favorite artist, album, song of 2025

The top 20 songs featured artists such as Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Olivia Dean, who was also voted by Israelis as the breakout artist of 2025.

A general view of a Nashville area Starbucks that has been transformed into a Starbies pop up celebrating the release of Taylor Swift's new album "The Life Of A Showgirl" on October 03, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tiferet Sigala (L) and Yarden Cohen.

Tiferet Sigala, Yarden Cohen: Giving space, community for Jerusalem’s teen geeks

Singer Lorde attends Variety's 2021 Power of Women event at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. September 30, 2021

Lorde to join 'no music for genocide' anti-Israel boycott

 DANIEL GAD (left) and Michael Aloni in ‘The Stronghold.’

From Yom Kippur War to Eurovision: Israeli Special TV for the holidays


David Sassoon, the Jewish royal designer who dressed Princess Diana, dies at 92

David Sassoon, who created Princess Diana’s honeymoon going-away dress, dies at 92, leaving behind a trail of groundbreaking fashion for the British royals.

 Princess Diana dressed in a Belville Sassoon design.

Rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs cannot be trusted if released from jail, prosecutor says

Lawyers say that Diddy has demonstrated that 'either he cannot or will not follow rules.'

 Sean 'Diddy' Combs sits during a bail hearing in federal court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., September 18, 2024 in this courtroom sketch.

My Word: Words, wars, and signs of the times

Collins dubbed "Brat" the word of the year, which established "brat summer" as an aesthetic and way of life. Clearly the global Collins wordsmiths didn't have the type of summer we had in Israel.

 THE ‘WORD of the year’ may be ‘brat’, but for Israelis, ‘katbam’ and ‘this too shall pass’ ring truer.

The legacy of Guy Fawkes: From 17th century rebellion to modern pop culture

Guy Fawkes Night remains well observed in pockets of Britain. In Ottery St Mary, Devon, locals carry flaming barrels of tar on their backs for ancient and inscrutable reasons.

 Guy Fawkes' Day.

 Is Zoë Kravitz Jewish? Here's what we know about Channing Tatum's fiancé

Kravitz is the daughter of two parents who have nearly identical cultural backgrounds.

 LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 18: Director, writer and producer Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum attend the photocall for "Blink Twice" at IET London on August 18, 2024 in London, England.

Israeli pop sensation Adam has died at 64

Legendary pop star, Adam, died of cancer early Thursday morning, his family announced.

 Israeli singer Adam (Haim Cohen), 1987.

'Dragon Ball' creator Akira Toriyama dies at 68

What started as a comic strip in the 1980's became a worldwide media franchise.

 The creator of the "Dragon Ball" franchise

Fox News host suggests Taylor Swift's fame due to 'ties to Pentagon'

The Pentagon denied any connection with the international pop sensation.

 Taylor Swift attends a premiere for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in Los Angeles, California, U.S., October 11, 2023.

Timothée Chalamet faces backlash for anti-Hamas SNL skit

Some of Chalamet's followers accused him and girlfriend Kylie Jenner of being Zionists.


A new pop culture convention will celebrate Jewish excellence and ideas in comic books

The history of Judaism and comics is long and rich, with Jewish stories arising in both popular comics and more esoteric ones.

A Spider-Man comic book is seen in this photo illustration taken November 12, 2018

Enter the world of Keith Haring in new Herzliya exhibit

Haring died of AIDS-related complications at the age of 31 in 1990, and since then, he’s been the subject of several international retrospectives.

 AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER Allan Tannenbaum with an image of Keith Haring at the exhibit opening on Wednesday.