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Idan Amedi to perform near Gaza border after wartime injury

Fauda star and singer Idan Amedi will headline the Sderot Beer Festival, returning to the Gaza border region after his wartime injury.

Israeli musician, Idan Amedi.
Leave room for the snacks

World Cup 2026: The beer and snacks guide

Brewmaster Mendel Shnider (top), with brother-partners Eitan and Oren Nidam in the new Jerusalem Brewing Co. in Talpiot.

Jerusalem Brewing Co. brings craft beer back to Israel’s capital

Malka beer Habekoti

Next to the grill: The beers that will make your Independence Day


Which beers should you pair with which foods under the sukkah?

Since the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians began to brew it over 5,000 years ago, beer was always meant to go with food. See what interesting combinations you can come up with, and chag sameach! 

 HOP GURU IPA from the Shevet Brewstillery: Balances the sweetness of many foods; perfect with pizza and flavor-intense dishes.

What does Oktoberfest look like after a 2-year-COVID-break? The internet tells

Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival, runs from September 17 to October 3. Here's how it's going so far.

A visitor cheers after finishing a mug of beer during the official opening the world's largest beer festival, the 187th Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, September 17, 2022.

Israeli distillery gains new aromas in whisky through aging and beer

A new phenomenon: Whisky aged in beer barrels, which held beer aged in whisky barrels.

 FOUR WHISKIES from the M&H Art & Craft series.

Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ to study religious text and drink beer

The Boston Lehrhaus is expected to open after the High Holidays this fall.

 The Lehrhaus is inspired in part by Frankfurt's Jewish House of Free Study, where intellectuals of the early 20th century like Bertha Pappenheim, Leo Lowenthal, and Martin Buber lectured and learned

Wine Talk: Give that man a Goldstar

Here’s to Goldstar, after 72 years, still going strong! 

 A TASTING of Goldstar beers held at the brewery.

Seventh Tekoa Beer Festival garners a crowd of 3,000 in Gush Etzion

Israelis attended the event from all parts of the country in order to try beers from 15 local breweries.

 Seventh Tekoa Beer Festival garners a crowd of 3,000 in Gush Etzion.

Bands and beer abound in Jerusalem Beer Festival

The festival also boasts a slate of international beer companies including German brands like ‘Köstritzer’ and the Dutch ale company ‘Trappe la.’

 Beer fest Jerusalem 2022

Jerusalem Beer Festival (‘Ir Habira’) opens the capital’s summer season

“We wanted the Jerusalem Beer Festival to open the capital’s summer events season rather than close it,” said organizer Eli Giladi.

 Enjoying their suds at the 2021 Beer Festival.

Israel's best craft brewed beers for the summer

Here in Israel, our craft breweries have issued some new beers just in time for the summer days.

 Beers of summer

Once upon a Jerusalem winter's night - short story

The graffiti inside the tunnel is third-rate, the work of an angry teenager. The air hangs heavy with the stench of urine and stale weed.

 Rain falls along Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem on January 19.