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The Schmooze Lost Diary Offers Glimpse Into Anti-Semitic Mind
Crossposted from Haaretz Tova Meir, a Hungarian-born woman and a member of Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar, sat last Monday in one of the rooms of The Memorial Museum Of Hungarian Speaking Jewry in Safed, and browsed through a Budapest phonebook from 1944. Meir was looking for the carpentry shop where she used to work. Yet before…
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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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The Schmooze Scream Queen to Rock Chic
Crossposted from Haaretz “It’s a dynamic performance with a very clear objective: to electrify the audience, to communicate with it through happiness,” says Ruti Navon, regarding her new joint show with Sheri, which brings together blues, rock, punk, hits and Hebrew songs. Today the two will launch “This is the Time for Love,” at the…
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The Schmooze Italian Renaissance, Tel Aviv Style
Crossposted from Haaretz Entering the Tel Aviv studio of artist Lenny Dinar Dothan one encounters hospitality amid charming disorder. Sawdust is scattered everywhere, among the saws, rulers, pencils and books. Propped up against the wall are some of her works, among them a painting in which she is seen nursing her little son against the…
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The Schmooze Good, Bad, and Not-So-Ugly Israeli Designers
Crossposted from Haaretz A new exhibit at the Design Museum Holon is taking a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly – or in this case – not so ugly – works of 42 Israeli designers. “Designers Plus 10,” (subtitled: “42 ways To Be a Designer), which opens Sunday, features one older and…
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The Schmooze Warsaw Theater Tackles Hanoch Levin
Crossposted From Haaretz Gay soccer fans about to come out of the closet. A mother and her daughter, and their fatal relationship against the backdrop of occupied Poland. Twenty-first-century Poles who must deal with the guilt of World War II, a time when men handed their countrymen over to the Nazis in exchange for nothing…
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The Schmooze Israel Museum Joins Google Art Project
Crossposted from Haaretz Art connoisseurs around the globe will find it easier to visit Israel Museum, after the Jerusalem institute announced on Tuesday it was joining the Google Art Project, which provides online tours of the world’s top museums. The addition of Israel’s preeminent museum to the digital project was announced in a press conference…
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The Schmooze Lost Opus Reaches Israeli Stage
Crossposted from Haaretz Sometimes an unknown work is rescued from oblivion and performed at a concert before an audience. Usually it’s a minor work that somehow eluded the catalog and was stuck in a drawer of some unimportant library, and its eventual discovery and performance mark the end of a painstaking process of collecting all…
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