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	Celebrate the end of 5770 with a week of fun events in Jerusalem It's the last week of the Jewish year. But before we say goodbye to 5770 and bring in 5771, there's a week chock full of fun events around town waitin...
	Festival Beshekel brings good music at a great price to Jerusalem The annual Festival BeShekel's noble goal has been to bring top-quality music to the people at a price everyone can afford: one shekel (about a quarte...
	So many ways to say sorry in Jerusalem this month The High Holidays offer Jerusalem a chance to shine in an area not normally thought of as fertile for cultural phenomena: repentance. Before the Jewis...
	Tweet and meet at the Inbal Hotel Social media is getting more sociable in Jerusalem. As the tweetup phenomenon grows in popularity, more and more Jerusalemites are getting up from the...
	The summer wanes, but the good times roll on in Jerusalem With the kiddies heading back to school, the mercury finally dropping and the country gearing up for an onslaught of holidays, it looks like summer is...
	An archeological tour of Jerusalem Jerusalem certainly has a bright present and future, but it's the city's rich past that makes it one of the globe's most popular and attractive destin...
	The top five luxury hotels in Jerusalem Jerusalem, the city where kings ruled and sultans sat is no stranger to luxury. Today, even the visiting yeoman can find lavish quarters in which to l...
	Repentance, funk and the end of summer: just another week of Jerusalem events Holiday season seems to start early (and solemnly) this year: right now, Jerusalem's Muslim population is celebrating Ramadan with daily fasting and f...
	The top five hotel pools and spas in Jerusalem Jerusalem may sit on the edge of the desert, but that doesn't mean you have to stay dry. Many of Jerusalem's hotels now offer expansive pool, spa tr...
	Celebrating 100 years of Machane Yehuda with Balabasta's nutty carnivals Just in time for its 100th birthday, the ever-evolving Machane Yehuda market has transformed itself once again, this time into one of Jerusalem's hott...
	Renovations, festivals and beer: another week of Jerusalem events Hey, Jerusalemite or Jerusalem visitor, you're already almost halfway done with August. Sure, it's the dog days of summer, but festival season remains...
	Tower of David to host monsters of funk The Tower of David Museum is once again letting its old stones shake with sounds of rock, groove and funk. A second annual annual concert, hosted in p...
	The top five pieces of art to see in Jerusalem It can be argued that the city of Jerusalem herself is a work of art, but she can be a bit hard to absorb in one sitting, to say nothing of the diff...
	The seemingly endless summer fun continues in Jerusalem this week In Jerusalem, denizens and visitors alike are taking advantage of all the great opportunities summer has to offer. A festival dedicated to drinking wi...
	24 hours in Jerusalem Consider it: you're in the area for a business meeting or a family function. You don't have the luxury of a leisurely multi-day vacation. In fact, you...
	Taking to the streets: Puppet-making in downtown Jerusalem Jerusalem's Train Theater is taking street performance to a whole new level this year, following a six-month puppet-making project based out of centra...
	Jerusalem's Old Train Station fairgrounds serving up plenty of entertainment Following the completion of French-led construction in 1992, a passenger train once ran from Jaffa to central Jerusalem, terminating at the Old (then ...
	Festival season kicks into high gear in Jerusalem this week The mid-summer dry heat means that there's unlikely to be any precipitation in Jerusalem this week, but when it comes to mega-festivals of the cultura...
	The top five underexposed hotels in Jerusalem Jewish tradition holds that in the times of the First and Second Temples, all the Jewish people would gather in Jerusalem three times a year, and desp...
	Nothing but love on offer this week in Jerusalem Love is in the air this week. Can you feel it? Tu B'Av, ancient Israeli precursor to Valentine's Day (and Sweetest Day) falls on Sunday night-Monday, ...
	Partying to help Jerusalem's needy with Hakova Hahafuch The Jerusalem-based Hakova Hahafuch collective wants you to know it isn't playing the same game as those other fundraising non-profit organizations. W...
	The Inbal Hotel's TerraOlivo competition demonstrates that olive oil is the new wine Although no one has yet made a movie about two men on an olive oil-tasting road trip, a culture similar to that of wine aficionados is growing around ...
	From mourning to messiah, Jerusalem is the place to be this week This is a week of paradoxes for Jerusalem. While many Jews are a state of qausi-mourning for the Nine Days leading up to Tisha B'av, the city's bars, ...
	A rebooted Israel Museum readies for the throngs This July 26, Jerusalem's landmark Israel Museum reopens its doors to reveal the results of its staggeringly ambitious, long-term and expensive renova...
	50 things to do in Jerusalem this summer The living may be easy in the summertime, but it can still be a challenge to leave the cool embrace of air conditioning and find something to do outsi...
	Jerusalem won't stop 'til you get enough this week The World Cup wraps up this week, and though you won't be able to watch 11 sweaty men competing on such a lofty world stage for four more years, in Je...
	The Jerusalem Film Festival is back in town for its 27th year A perennial favorite, the Jerusalem Film Festival returns to venues across town this week. This year's festival, which runs from July 8th to 17th, ope...
	Summer begins and events rage on in Jerusalem this week Summer has officially arrived, and the weather has been giving us all an ample reminder of that fact - although as always, the Holy City's elevation a...
	Stay cool with fun things to do in Jerusalem this week While the rest of the country swelters in off-and-on record heat, Jerusalem remains relatively pleasant and breezy both inside and out, with cool drin...
	The Bloomfield Science Museum takes us way down into the Deep For Jerusalemites, even the surface of the sea can feel like an exotic destination, with the June heat waves leaving land-locked city residents dreami...
	The World Cup runneth over with good times in Jerusalem this week If you can hear us over all the vuvuzelas, we're here to tell you that Jerusalem's summer of fun is rolling on. From World Cup-inspired events, to cul...
	Neighborhood Tour: Ein Kerem Far to the west from the city center, where the urban environs of Jerusalem give way to the pine trees and olive groves of the steeply terraced Ju...
	A Jerusalem Studio School program opens the eyes of Jerusalem artists in Italy Jerusalem has plenty of Roman ruins. Classic Italian works of art, less. But thanks to the Jerusalem Studio School, which this summer is offering a st...
	A big hug for the city of Jerusalem The stereotypical hippie offer of "free hugs" is usually a pitch meant for human recipients, but for four summers running now, coexistence-seekers h...
	The top five quick Middle Eastern food joints in Jerusalem Jerusalem's unique position as both an international city and a burg at the hinge where East meets West makes for a cornucopia of different dining opt...
	Luminous Jerusalem rolls out the classics for another fun-filled week Do call it a comeback. Though the Israel Festival and Book Week are still going on, this week, Jerusalem is rolling out a number of old favorites from...
	The Mamilla Hotel's Winery offers up curated tasting experiences Leading the way in Jerusalem's resurgent wine culture, and a good option for those looking for a break from the Mamilla Hotel's trending Mirror Bar (w...
	Festival season marches on through another week of Jerusalem events The great teeming host of cultural events tied to the Israel Festival continues this week in Jerusalem, and truly there is no better time for devotees...
	Scaling the walls of downtown Jerusalem's buildings No, that wasn't Spiderman you saw climbing down the building above Davidka Square on a recent Friday afternoon. It was just Yakov Goory turning the ...
	The Israel Festival and much more in Jerusalem this week This week in Jerusalem the Israel Festival hits its stride with a ton of shows all around town. But that doesn't mean the city's many and varied venue...
	Crowne Plaza Jerusalem inaugurates new Cybex health club Perfectly timed to work off that Shavuot dairy binge, the Crowne Plaza Hotel inaugurated its brand new Cybex health club on Shavuot Eve. Filled with h...
	Half-price discounts for Israel Festival's top jazz shows GoJerusalem.com is thrilled to offer a 50% discount on tickets for all jazz performances at the upcoming Israel Festival. That's right: 50% off of t...
	Festival season in Jerusalem kicks off with a doozy and more this week With the barrage of springtime holidays now behind us, Jerusalem is filling in the gaps with a multitude of festivals throughout the summer. Kicking o...
	Supernatural artifacts haunt and protect the Bible Lands Museum Want someone to fall madly in love with you? Retrieve that stolen wallet? Save your infant from death? Not a problem - especially after visiting the B...
	Old inspires new at the 2010 Israel Festival For Jerusalem's culture aficionados, spring means the annual Israel Festival, which starts this year on May 25 and runs through June 11. The multidisc...
	Harvest all the good times in Jerusalem this week The good times of Jerusalem Day are only a memory, and yet the city keeps on rocking. With summer fast approaching, the big-name cultural events are b...
	Bringing Ein Kerem's slopes back to their ancient roots If it only takes a village, there's no doubt that a handful of dedicated volunteers will succeed in restoring Ein Kerem's biblical landscape. The gro...
	An exhibit of pictures worth thousands of words The conjunction of art and literature is not a new concept. From the comic books of our childhood going back to the Renaissance, there has always been...
	Turn Jerusalem Day into Jerusalem Week with seven days of fun stuff to do This week will mark 43 years since the unification of Jerusalem, the heart and capital of the state of Israel. And what better excuse is there to part...
	Volunteering lets visitors get more out of vacations Looking to leave more of a footprint than just a charge card receipt behind when you visit Jerusalem? Make a more lasting impression by exploiting som...
	Prodigal jazzman returns to make his Jerusalem debut Avant-jazz surf-rock Judeo-fusion guitarist Eyal Maoz was born in Israel, has established a career for himself in New York, and returns periodically t...
	Where there's smoke there's fun in Jerusalem this week If you love the smell of burning wood, the sight of flames leaping into the sky and the art of building the perfect bonfire, then this week, featuring...
	Outstanding foreign, local authors flock to Jerusalem's International Writers Festival The Second International Writers Festival kicks off at Mishkenot Sha'ananim this Sunday, May 2nd. Attending will be luminaries from both the Isra...
	Critical Mass bikers push the pedal to make Jerusalem greener They're no Hell's Angels, but a group of bikers - the kind that run on human muscle power - are roaming the streets of Jerusalem with one aim in mind:...
	A month of Channel 24 broadcasts live from downtown Jerusalem Jerusalem just keeps getting cooler. Or hipper, as the case may be. Big name bands are finally putting the capital city on their radar, local initiati...
	Jerusalem keeps the ball rolling this week with a ton of events The weather is starting to heat up, and the rise in temperature and excitement is palpable in Jerusalem. Fresh off a bevy of exciting Indepe...
	Entertainment luminaries going dark for Jerusalem's Earth Day 2010 celebrations Striving to be both eco-friendly and enjoyable is the name of the game for this Thursday's Earth Day Street Fair, organized by Jerusalem's New Spirit ...
	Celebrating Israel's 62nd Yom Ha'atzmaut with fireworks, fun and more this week in Jerusalem Most 62nd birthday parties are less than exciting affairs, usually involving a cake, some candles, a slideshow, and the playing of some old favorite t...
	Kids in the kitchen: Cooking with Tami at the Malcha Mall Having the kids underfoot in the kitchen can be a real strain at meal time. But it doesn't have to be that way. Turn the kids into partners in the kit...
	How Jerusalem gets down: a nightlife primer Jerusalem is known as "The Holy City," but as a vibrant, contemporary town, there's a lot more than holiness going on around here. Jerusalem's rich hi...
	Extremely great events this week in Jerusalem Israel's weather doesn't really allow for a springtime, instead jumping nearly straight from the chilly breezes of winter to the blazing heat of summe...
	Jerusalem has it all this Passover and beyond With the Passover holiday upon us, Jerusalem is offering a myriad of reasons to stick around town and see everything the city has to offer. From sites...
	Don't pass over these great events in Jerusalem this week Jerusalem may be ridding itself of all leavening (beer, sadly, included) but it's got a week's worth of events to make up for it, and then some. It's ...
	Around the world in 80 drinks: A new Hitorerut party series Jerusalem may be a world-class city, but it's not often that partying Jerusalemites are offered the chance to travel around the world, in a manner of ...
	Freedom through food: Passover 2010 kosher dining options in Jerusalem Jerusalem is proving once again that leaven-free need not mean taste-free, with kosher restaurants offering tasty alternatives to the traditional Pass...
	Shedding light on the many facets of water and its relationship with Jerusalem It's no secret that the wonders of water allow Jerusalem to be the thriving, growing city it is today. Without modern methods of piping the wet stuff,...
	Jerusalem's English-language performers take center stage at the Stage One Theater Festival With schools out and tourists in, the week of Passover is cultural high season in Jerusalem, marked by numerous events competing for the attention of ...
	The Bezalel Arts Fair is drawing crowds to downtown Jerusalem's streets Looking for that special gift for a friend or the perfect pillow for your sofa? Help has arrived in the form of downtown Jerusalem's Bezalel Arts Fa...
	The Simpsons headed to Jerusalem this spring TV's The Simpsons are headed to Jerusalem for a special episode slated to air in the US next Sunday, which is both Palm Su...
	Let your people go to Jerusalem this week for all the fun events Passover is almost here, which for Jews means a week of not consuming any leavened products, and alcohol distilled from grains. But restrict...
	A new sound and light show for a rebuilt Jerusalem landmark Like the mythical phoenix, Jerusalem's Hurva Synagogue is rising from the ashes, but like much else in the Old City, its future is not so glorious wit...
	Bema'aglei Tzedek puts Braille menus at the fingertips of Jerusalem's blind Choosing your favorite dish at your favorite restaurant is a snap for most diners, but for the blind, it can be a major challenge - unless the restaur...
	Joe Biden missing out on many Jerusalem cultural events this week Last week saw the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Jerusalem. While Biden spent most of his time on political matters, he no doubt also ...
	The top five museums you may have missed in Jerusalem Jerusalem certainly does not lack for museum space. Those looking for a little knowledge and a unique experience know to head to places like the Isr...
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	The Mount Zion Hotel This historic four star hotel is located right outside of the Old City.
	Dona Fresca Leading the sorely-needed Holy City gourmet pizza explosion.
	Jerusalem Gold Hotel Recently renovated hotel near the city entrance, with a business lounge and spa.
	Rimonim Hotel One of the finest kosher hotels, located near the city entrance.
	Taiku Creative rolls, fusing traditional Japanese with Middle Eastern flavors.

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