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Media Icon, Wendy Williams is this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. award recipient. The award was given to Williams by the Consulate General of Israel in New York for her work toward dialogue, understanding and compassion between people of different backgrounds.

Shot in stop motion, singer/songwriter Oren Lavie will soon discover whether 2,096 still shots stitched together are enough to get him a Grammy. With over 9 million views his video clip “Her Morning Elegance” has won praise from people and press, now he’s also planning to display the pics in galleries across the U.S

Yuri Foreman has just become the first Israeli boxing world champion. If you think that is impressive, he’s also about to receive yet another prestigious title…. Rabbi.

When Dr. Ada Yonath was asked to place a bet on her chances to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, she decided to answer the question with a question: “Do you think I should go to the hairdresser?”

Well, if we told you, we’d be super-psychic geniuses. Netflix still hasn’t announced the winner of its three-year long contest. But we have a hunch as to who it will be. Can you guess?

The Tribeca Film Festival may not be over, but some of the critics’ movie picks are in. And films by Israelis have taken some top billing. Yoav Shamir’s film “Defamation” (trailer above) explores the various meanings of antisemitism–both for those who are (or are not) antisemites and for Jews and Israelis. Needless to say, the [...]

Photo: Getty Images When you think of Israel, ice skating (i.e. cold, snow, ice) may not be the first thing on your mind. You can imagine our surprise when we found out through Xinhua that skaters Alexandra and Roman Zaretski had placed first in ice dancing at the the Harbin Winter Universiade. Thanks for helping [...]

Photo: Getty Images Gail Hareven is one of Israel’s most prominent fiction writers, but she’s done a lot besides. Her studies of behavioral sciences and Jewish philosophy certainly help shape her works, which have only now been introduced to the English-speaking world. Her first book translated into English, The Confessions of Noa Weber (My True [...]

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics, used with permission Waltz With Bashir, the new Israeli movie by Ari Folman, will be opening in New York next week. In its list of the year’s ten best movies, New York Magazine, noted that the movie’s “fluid boundary between the real and surreal lifts it into the realm of myth” [...]