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Shayna Paquin, co-founder of the non-profit organization Sparks to Life, lives in Tzfat (Safed), Israel, a city in the northern part of the country near the Sea of Galilee. The mother of seven ...
The mayor of Tzfat rejected an evacuation of his city but called for the Israeli government to do more to protect it. (JTA) — Tensions are flaring at Israel’s northern border after a rocket ...
(JTA) — Tensions are flaring at Israel’s northern border after a rocket fired from Lebanon killed a woman in the northern city of Tzfat. Israel is reportedly carrying out extensive strikes ...
Tzfat is full of spirit and energy when it comes to art, music and religion. Alongside its mysticism, the resting place of Kabbalists, such as the Arizal, it has a thriving wine and liquor scene ...
To read the cover story on The Happy Minyan, click here. I had spent a week in the mystical city of Tzfat in northern Israel, and I kept thinking to myself, “This is as far from Los Angeles as I ...
Hope- fully, you’ll be able to watch it. While the series is set in Jerusalem, much of it was shot in Tzfat, a city in northern Israel and the center of Kabbalah.What was that like? The initial ...
If you ever wanted to experience what healthy Jewish communal life might look like post-COVID, you might want to visit the ancient, mystical city of Tzfat, high up on a hill in the northern ...
Shuki Ohana, Mayor of the northern Israeli city of Tzfat (Safed), on Wednesday warned of an earthquake disaster in which thousands of residents of the city will be killed. Ohana’s comments came ...
I arrive at my aunt’s house in Tzfat and knock on the door. I’m only being polite — everybody keeps their doors unlocked in this quaint Upper Galilee city, also called Safed or Zefat. My aunt calls ...
The northern Israeli city of Tzfat on a winter day, January 19, 2021. A new university planned to be established in the Galilee in northern Israel will be established in the city of Tzfat ...
Miracles really happen. Four Jewish women from Tzfat decided to write a Megillat Esther that was used in the Collective Women’s Reading last Purim, and just like a pregnancy, it took them ...
In 2002, during a period of intense fighting between Palestine and Israel, anthropologist Richard Sosis took a taxi from Jerusalem to Tzfat, in northern Israel. Sosis, of the University of ...