Talya Halkin
By Talya Halkin
-
News Sex, Style and Celebrities
When I was an adolescent in the town of Zichron Ya’akov, Israel, during the 1980s, American fashion magazines were an expensive treat whose glossy pages, fragrant with perfume samples, held the promise of a temporary escape to a more glamorous world. Israeli women’s magazines cost a fraction of the price. But as far as I…
-
News Another Paradise Casts Out a Feisty Woman
Sloping down from the Carmel Mountains toward the Mediterranean Sea, the village of Fureidis was given its name, according to local legend, by a governor who arrived here during the British mandate. He called what was then a small, quiet village “Fureidis,” Arabic for “paradise.” Fureidis is one of the few Arab villages on Israel’s…
-
News Exodus Is Illuminated
The walled city of Israeli artist Avner Moriah’s new illuminated Haggada looks less like a Middle Eastern capital and more like a medieval Tuscan town. The cover features Jerusalem’s Old City, hovering in space against a black background. Surrounding the cluster of towers and red-roofed houses is a sand-colored wall, delineating a graceful ark as…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Sports First Puka Nacua, now Mookie Betts: Why do sports stars keep getting antisemitic around a Jewish streamer?
- 2
Culture Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
- 3
Culture We tried to fix Hallmark’s Hanukkah problem. Here’s the movie we made instead
- 4
Holy Ground One of America’s first Jewish farms was nearly lost to history. Now these Brooklyn parents are risking everything to keep their family’s legacy alive.
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture Waiting on line on Christmas is a time-honored New York tradition — was it ever thus?
-
Fast Forward It’s not just a myth that Jews head to Chinese restaurants on Christmas. It’s science.
-
Fast Forward Tucker Carlson named ‘Antisemite of the Year’
-
Fast Forward Jewish groups defend European media monitors banned for what State Dept. calls ‘censorship’
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
