Culture in jerusalem

Jerusalem highlights: November 13-19

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

Home of Maud Lewis (see Thursday).
TERENCE WINTER.

Sopranos’ Terence Winter to join in Israeli TV festival Jerusalem Sessions

A Vertigo workshop presents excerpts from Mana and Leela.

Taking to the air: The fourth Fluorescent – Vertigo Jerusalem festival

To celebrate the launch of a new artists’ community dedicated to olim, Jerusalemites showed their enthusiastic support at the exhibition venue,  the Greater Baka Community Center (Minhal Kehilati Baka Rabati).

The women opening doors into Jerusalem’s art world: Three orgs. helping immigrant artists


Sam Spiegel Film School names new director

Director Dana Blankstein-Cohen has been unanimously appointed as the new head of Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School.

Dana Blankstein-Cohen

Top Jerusalem official shuts down Shabbat music concert - without consent

A source close to the orchestra said the company received a call three hours before the festival began, leaving no time to prepare or inform people of an alternative.

THE JERUSALEM Baroque Orchestra, under Latvianborn Jerusalemite conductor David Shemer (right), will anchor the Vocal Fantasy Festival.

Grapevine: Uncertain election

WITH AN unprecedented second Knesset election within a six-month period coming up in less than two months, it is understandable that the subject is a hot topic.

David Horovitz, founding editor of The Times of Israel, edited The Jerusalem Post from 2004 to 2001

The Museum on the Seam deconstructs Jerusalem through self-portraits

Facing up to Jerusalem

EFRAT SHVILY uses her Jerusalemites video work to gain a better understanding of her own perspective.

Overall – All over the city

“One of the things that unites and characterizes Jerusalem is the blend of old and new, ancient and modern,” says Sarit Goldstein.

ET CASIART head coverings

Revealing the funny side of the ‘Mossad’

“Everyone in Israel wants to do dramas,” said Gur Arye. “So I wanted to do spoofs, parodies. And I wanted to spoof something very Israeli.”

TSAHI HALEVI and Tal Friedman in ‘Mossad.’

New discovery in Jerusalem's City of David: 2,000-year-old pilgrimage road

The City of David has already changed Jerusalem. A new discovery there opening soon will change the way Jews connect with their past in a way never seen before.

ON THE road: ‘To understand Jerusalem, you need to stand here.’

Jerusalem Light Festival

The festival, which has already begun and will continue until July 4, is a celebration of spreading the light, overcoming obstacles and bringing people together.

Jerusalem Light Festival

Grapevine: Early celebration

MOST PEOPLE prefer to celebrate their birthdays later rather sooner. Few want to be older than they are.

YEHORAM GAON

Did you know...

...how Jerusalem remembers 9/11?

THE 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza, a cenotaph located on a hill in the Ramot neighborhood.