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May 24, 2026, 12:27 AM

Elizabeth Heyert’s THE UNBORN – what we are all like before we enter the world

Elizabet Heyert’s striking new series Premieres at the Venice Bienalle, continuing the artist’s decades’ long exploration of the human experience. The Unborn consists of nine photographs of pre-natal subjects who were conceived in the first half of the 20th...

May 22, 2026, 5:39 PM

Treasure Trove: The Original Selfie Machine Turns 100

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photo taken in a photo both at Montreal's Expo 67.

The original selfie machine turns 100 this year. The photo booth made its first appearance in September 1926 on Broadway in New York City. It was the invention of Anatol Josepho (1894-1980, born Josephewitz), and first called the Photomaton. Siberian born,...

May 18, 2026, 6:55 PM

Future Rescue Technology: Live AI-Dog Systems for Battlefields and Earthquakes

When a Dog Becomes a Living Sensor System in the Age of AI. From the Tragedy in Shejaiya to a New Vision of Human-Animal-Machine Interfaces. In December 2023, Pank, a dog from the Oketz Unit, was sent on an operational mission...

Eugene J. Levin

Apr 23, 2026, 9:56 AM

Delfi Chose the Kippah

I direct documentaries. Before a single word of narration is written, decisions have already been made that tell the audience how to feel about the person on screen. The shot. The frame. The costume. The background. The light. By...

Ariel Jerozolimski

Apr 16, 2026, 9:50 PM

Photo: © Ariel Jerozolimski

What I enjoy photographing most are scenes of daily life, especially on the streets, as they reflect the country’s character. In Israel, there are truly scenes that splendidly illustrate the personality and nature of the Israeli reality—full of contrasts, informal...

Michael Feldstein

Mar 8, 2026, 11:39 PM

Waiting for the Pictures

Credit: ChatGPT

A few weeks ago, we celebrated our granddaughter Sarit’s bat mitzvah. It was a wonderful simcha. Sarit delivered a beautiful dvar Torah that focused on a mishnah in Pirkei Avot that she had studied with me. There was dancing,...

Feb 23, 2026, 5:10 AM

PHOTO ESSAY: Tel Socho – A Springtime Blessing Close To Home

Sun-Kissed Lupines (Avraham Wald)

Some landscapes reveal themselves only to the patient heart, and Tel Socho is one such place: a small hill in the Elah Valley where heaven seems to touch the earth each spring. The easiest way to reach this spot...

Feb 18, 2026, 9:22 PM

ORA: The New Jewish Magazine That’s For Us, By Us

ORA means “light” in Hebrew, and that’s exactly what Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Elina Furman is putting into the world. With its recent launch in January, ORA Magazine is Elina’s response to October 7th. She explains, “I never thought that being...

Feb 11, 2026, 5:21 AM

Participant Observation: A Poem

Cup of water at a Jewish wedding in New England. Photo - Shai Afsai

A cultural anthropologist claims to have discovered a living American Jew not said to have finished or to be currently working on a Passover Haggadah, a novel with a Holocaust setting, a treatise on the Arab-Israeli conflict and how it could be solved, a tome explicating...

Simone Suzanne Kussatz

Jan 11, 2026, 2:41 PM

Conquer Your Own Rhythm: Art and Epilepsy

John Stern's "Alaskan". Courtesy of dnj Gallery

It is 7:55 a.m. EST. “I’m available now,” Pamela Schoenberg, owner of dnj Gallery, texted me from Cincinnati, Ohio, when I reached out to learn more about her upcoming exhibition, "Conquer Your Own Rhythm", a group show by artists living...

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