New art for a New Year: Jerusalem Artists House unveils a new set of exhibitions - review
Judging by the latest set, culture consumers can look forward to a year of quality showings across numerous styles, subgenres, and mindsets.
Giving surplus a second life, Jerusalem’s food rescuers are turning leftovers into a lifeline
The Jerusalem Food Rescuers initiative, created by Daniella Seltzer in 2019, aims to address the development of a sustainable food system and promote nutrition in Jerusalem.
When politics invades art, an Israeli artist seeks common ground at the Venice Biennale
Belu-Simion Fainaru, our representative at the Venice Biennale, struts his creative stuff and rolls with the anti-Israel punches.
To play or not to play: A Swiss theater director comes to Israel to test the murky Wagnerian waters
Milo Rau is clearly determined to dive into the multi-layered, dense underbelly of various situations to divine the whys and wherefores and, hopefully, uncover the real state of play.
Shabtai Zvi exhibition explores the false Messiah who mesmerized Jews across the world
A Jerusalem exhibition marking 400 years since Shabtai Zvi's birth explores how the false messiah captivated much of the Jewish world and why his legacy continues to fascinate.
A toast to life: Israeli whisky raises the bar as a young industry comes of age
Whisky Live returns to Tel Aviv for its 12th edition, bringing Israeli and Scottish distillers together for tastings, workshops and a look at Israel's growing whisky industry.
Women, water and Kabbalah converge in Jerusalem's Sea of Wisdom exhibition
The exhibits resonated the breadth of aspects of the confluence between the life-giving liquid and spiritual realms and, in particular, how water features in Kabbalistic thought.
Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing
If your idea of poetry is a neatly rhyming ditty, attending the festival should thoroughly disabuse you of that constricted notion and open up broad new vistas for your literary epiphany enjoyment.
HaMiffal cultural center marks ten years and counting of community-oriented creation
“We understand we can show Jerusalem in a different light,” says artistic director and co-director Doron Gallia-Kind. “Not the one shown in newspapers and on the news."
'Our Partisan Kingdom' and 'Written in a Barn': Holocaust survival up close and personal - review
An American octogenarian oleh, born in a DP camp in Italy, offers his Holocaust survivor parents’ tales to the world.
