Karen Chernick
By Karen Chernick
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Art In Jerusalem, An Exhibit Interrogates The Myth Of Soviet Jewry’s Israeli Integration
13-year-old Zoya Cherkassky couldn’t look away from the window of her apartment in Kiev. The winter of 1990 was snowy and cold, yet even so, people were waiting in a bread line that stretched out the door of the shop across the street. “It was weird, because there were lines during that period, but not…
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Art 21 Years Later, A Tel Aviv Mural Pays Tribute To Yitzhak Rabin — And Issues A Warning
Elinoy Kisslove is used to receiving odd answers when she asks younger participants in her Tel Aviv graffiti tours what they see in the blurry, black-and-white mural at 26 Florentin Street. “The universe,” someone said to her once. “A womb,” suggested another. Those who live near the mural – mostly 20-somethings attracted to the gentrifying…
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