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.
'Report: Israel': Sasha Gusov captures post-Oct. 7 life in dramatic fashion - book review
Gusov snapped his vignettes across a 15-month period, starting shortly after that fateful day in 2023.
Can sound heal? Inside Overtones, the Israel Museum exhibition turning sound into an art form
Given that deplorable, increasingly challenging state of affairs, a visit to the Overtones: Sound and Art exhibition, curated by Talia Amar, makes solid remedial sense.
Twenty years on: Inside Beit Avi Chai's mission to unite Israelis through Jewish culture
Beit Avi Chai has grown from a local lecture venue into a cultural center reaching children, soldiers, artists, and audiences across Israel and abroad.
Getting to know Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust diarist starring at the Israel Festival
Hillesum was 27 when she started putting pen to paper, much older than Frank and, hence, her writing relates to a more advanced stage of life and state of consciousness and awareness.
War, boycotts, and shrinking budgets push Israeli culture to the brink
How much of a helping hand do our culture purveyors get from the authorities?
United in art: Jerusalem's Manofim Festival returns with art, music, and performance
The 18th edition of the Manofim arts festival maintains its inclusive take on local life.
