Photography

What is it like to be a female combat soldier in Israel? A photographer provides a unique look.

Debbie Zimelman spent five years capturing their experiences. It wasn’t always easy.

By Josefin Dolsten May 28, 2019 3:03 pm

An indigenous and Jewish photographer wants to tell her people’s story before it’s too late

Kali Spitzer, whose photography was recently featured in National Geographic, says Judaism influences her work even when it is not the central topic.

April 4, 2019 1:03 pm

In 1901, These Photos of Yemeni Jews Amazed the Western World

Since the establishment of the State of Israel (69 years ago today!), the vast majority of Yemen’s Jewish population has migrated to the Jewish State. Half a century earlier, a young German Jew named Hermann Burchardt followed his two great passions, photography and ethnography, to Yemen, and documented the community in its native surrounds. As […]

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