Jewish World

As the world remembers the end of World War II, sixty-nine years ago, we came to the Ghetto Fighters Museum to learn about the little survivors of the Holocaust, the around 150-thousand children who survived and started a new life in Israel. Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent: As the world remembers the end of World War Two, sixty-nine years ago, we …

Ron Jacobsohn gets to the Bottom of UNESCO Controversy The Turbid relationship between the United Nations Education Organization is not a big secret. So it was quite a big surprise when the Simon Wiesenthal Centre convinced UNESCO to host an exhibit about the 3500-year relationship of Jews and the holy land. Three days before the official gala opening at its …

Israel has once again proven to be the multi cultural society it wants to the world to know it is. Rose Fostanes, the Filipino caregiver from the Levinski district in Tel-Aviv went to audition for The X-Factor and against all odds won the competition and in the process became a global role model. Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent: So once again …

Returning to the lowest place on the face of the earth, the Israeli Opera Festival, is going to held this coming June at Masada for the 4th time featuring Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, directed by world renowned director, Michal Znanieki, and his team. We attended the media preview of this major cultural event in this year’s Israeli calendar. Even before the …

Some might say its serendipitous others might believe its art imitating life but fact is that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority choose as their representative to the Oscars this year a movie based on the same story, about a relationship between a Palestinian collaborator and his Israeli operator at the intelligence services. When the Academy published its short list …