Sisterhood - Chanchal & Madhubala

Don’t Get a Nose Job

The mystery of icon-preserving bees

For a decade, a beekeeper near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin and different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees and his yearly honey production. And every year, the very same mysterious phenomenon occurs: bees make their honeycomb cells around the pious images, meticulously avoiding covering them. 

Viera Gergelová: illustration for “Puf a Muf” by Natasa Tanska, 1972.

Madhubala in “Mughal-E-Azam” (1960)

Hayv Kahraman, Iraq

Stefan Karl Steffanson is Iceland’s man of the year.

Well deserved 

Lamb (2015), dir. Yared Zeleke.

This remarkable feature debut tells the story of young Ephraim, a half-Jewish, Ethiopian boy who is sent by his father to live among distant relatives after his mother’s death. Ephraim uses his cooking skills to carve out a place among his cousins, but when his uncle decides that his beloved sheep must be sacrificed for the next religious feast, he will do anything to save the animal and return home.

The Or Torah Synagogue in Akko, Israel is Tunisian, and decorated floor to wall to ceiling with beautiful tiles from Italy. Gorgeous.