It’s about time we featured Maya Johanna here. Much of the stuff we’ve seen from Maya in the past was made up of covers of 60s songs. She always showed promise but we were always left a tad underwhelmed. Then suddenly, she released an original album, Bells in Our Stomachs with lyrics, music and lead […]
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Eden Golan will represent Israel in the 2024 Eurovision song contest with a song called Hurricane. Israel’s original entry was called October Rain and was banned for being too political. It contained lyrics like “Someone stole the moon tonight / Took my light / Everything is black and white / Who’s the fool who told you […]
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Meet Ben Blackwell, a member of Israel’s 5,000 strong Black Hebrew community. When the Black Hebrews first came to Israel in 1969, relations between them and Israel were often contentious. The Black Hebrews immigrated to Israel illegally and their leadership was often theologically hostile to the Jewish people. Since then however, the Black Hebrew community […]
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Officially known as “The Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism,” Yom Hazikaron is Israel’s official remembrance day. Traditionally dedicated to Israel’s fallen soldiers , commemoration has also been extended to civilian victims of terror. I shot this at 11 am at Mahane Yehuda where people mostly […]
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According to a new video put out by ISIS, once the Caliphate kills everyone in Syria , they will kill all the Jews in Israel and in the whole world. No seriously you guys! All the Jews everywhere! And soon.They figure what with all the havoc caused by a few punk […]
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It’s been raining in Jerusalem all day. Any rain in Israel is a good thing given how we’re usually this parched miss in the middle of the desert. It’s doubly good today because we’vr been hit by yet another dust storm – the kind where this fine sand gets into EVERY. THING. EVERYWHERE. The rain […]
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Indie City does two things, and they do them well. First they produce video clips of Israeli indie artists performing in random places in Jerusalem. This allows them to highlight both Jerusalem’s diverse city scape and Israel’s broad pool of musical talent. Then they also run an annual music festival where many of the same […]
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Last night was pretty brutal. Just after 9 pm, two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at diners in the Max Brenner restaurant at Tel Aviv’s trendy Sarona Market. The terrorists, dressed in black suits, were cousins from the village of Yatta in the Hebron Hills. The shooting lasted barely a minute and left 4 dead and […]
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When Ilana Glazer of Broad City walks up to total strangers in the park and asks them how you they lost virginity, people answer! Why? Because people in New York are nice and they like sharing the most intimate details of their lives. With strangers. In front of a camera. You’d know this if you […]
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But maybe you’re just not cool. Or maybe you don’t know enough French to understand her lyrics – or both. Riff Cohen lives in Jerusalem and her music is a perfect reflection of who she is and where she’s from. Most of her lyrics come from poems penned by her Mom and the music itself […]
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