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Central exhibition for the year 2012 at The Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod Matronita:Jewish Feminist Art Opening: Friday, 11:00 a.m. January 27, 2012 Curators: Dvora Liss and David Sperber For the first time in Israel a museum has organized a major exhibition of Jewish feminist art by women who come from a traditional […]
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- Tags: Feminist Art, Fiber Art, Israel
By Karen Chernick for Green Prophert Can’t find your old Hannukah menorah? Israeli designers come up with clever alternatives. With the Jewish Hannukah holiday only a few weeks away, many Jews in the Middle East and elsewhere are anxiously waiting to eat sufganiot (jelly doughnuts) and searching their closets and cupboards for their Hannukah menorahs. […]
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- Tags: Israel, Ritual Objects
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By Yehudis Barmats/Harris There is something pastoral about the pieces on display in the Oman gallery, located in Romema, Jerusalem- deep in the “Hareidi” (Ultra Orthodox) quarters behind the central bus station. This community center inspires. Oman is an arts training program whose goal it is to help mobilize the talents of the female Israeli […]
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Israel Film Festival Review: Brothers
23, Jun 2011By Saul Sudin Igaal Niddam’s Brothers opens on a beautiful field under a warm sun casting its rays down on a man and his herd of sheep. You can tell from this initial image how blessed the land is, and the shepherd, writing poetry in his journal, harkens back to biblical greats like King David. […]
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- Tags: Film, Hebrew, Israel
International Museum Designer Patrick Gallagher Chosen to Design the New Museum of the Jewish People By Beit Hatfutsot Patrick Gallagher, President and Founder of Gallagher & Associates, a leading, international professional design firm, has been chosen by Beit Hatfutsot’s Board of Directors and International Steering Committee to lead the planning and the renovation of Beit […]
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By Eszter Margit The made for television short Chametz, directed by Alon Levi, won the Best Television Drama Film award at the Haifa International Film Festival in 2010. Chametz follows 15-year-old Ayala (Noa Kashi) as she returns from boarding school to help her mother (Reymond Amsalem) prepare for Passover. There she discovers the real reason […]
Female artists from the religious community face innumerable barriers to joining the art world; one project in Jerusalem aims to give them a warm home and a push out of the nest. By Tamar Rotem for Haaretz The sailboat knitted in red wool, which appears to be chained to the hole-studded wooden board, isn’t going anywhere. […]
The Cannes Film Festival Awards Jewish Film, Bans Director Who Made Anti-Semitic Remarks
23, May 2011Plus, the Coen Brothers were in Israel By Saul Sudin Much has already been said about Lars Von Trier and his outrageous statements at the Cannes Film Festival, having infamously stated “I really wanted to be a Jew and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because my family is German. And […]
Israel Film Festival Review: This Is Sodom
18, May 2011By Saul Sudin The Israeli film “This is Sodom†(Zohi Sdom) is a spinoff of the popular comedy television series “Wonderful Country” (Eretz Nehederet), a sort of Israeli Saturday Night Live. Like many feature films rooted in comedy television, it ultimately succeeds or fails based on the audience’s interest in the comedic style and approach. […]