Tamar Rotem
By Tamar Rotem
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Culture Haim Hears a Who as Dr. Seuss Musical Comes to Israel
(Haaretz) — Almost no work of children’s literature can compare with the books of Dr. Seuss. Their words and illustrations carry abundant possibilities, as well as an invitation to other creative artists to take inspiration from them and run with it. Anyone who has read Dr. Seuss’s works knows about the places you’ll go when…
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The Schmooze Pillow Talk at the Israel Museum
Crossposted from Haaretz When Kobi Ben Meir was working on the Israel Museum’s new “Good Night” exhibition, he constantly had the song “Layla, Layla” playing in his head. In the end, the curator chose to sing the song on camera, in a hesitant voice and with a very embarrassed expression. It’s now part of the…
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Life Hasidic Woman Channels Rosa Parks
Crossposted from Haaretz On a sunny afternoon early this week, an ultra-Orthodox woman boarded a bus in the enclave of the Gur Hasidic community in Ashdod and took a seat in the second row. The bus, Egged line 451, was headed for Jerusalem. It quickly became clear that this simple, everyday act — choosing a…
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The Schmooze Art Mimics Social Networking
Crossposted from Haaretz It’s nothing new for an artist or gallery to harness Facebook and other social media to spread the word and bring people in, but now the Tel Aviv Museum of Art has taken it a step further, by mimicking the platform for a new art exhibit. “Facelook” is intended for the whole…
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Culture Law School Is Brave New World for Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Women
The heat in the classroom was stifling. The students, all of them women, leaned over their notebooks like diligent sewing machine operators in a garment factory and penned rivers of words. The lecturers spoke quickly, with no interruptions and no questions. At the end of the lesson, one woman raced to the window, where she…
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