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The Schmooze Monday Music: Haredi Hip-Hop Rocks Tel Aviv
Crossposted from Haaretz The mostly secular crowed at Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv had a religious experience last week when the five-piece Haredi Hip Hop band Shtar took to the stage, traditional wardrobe intact. It wasn’t long before the crowed began to sway to the rhythm of rapper Ori M’Ori’s tassels, as he hammered out…
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The Schmooze Mikhail Baryshnikov in Tel Aviv
Crossposted from Haaretz There are two excuses to see the play “In Paris,” which is playing this week at Tel Aviv’s Suzanne Dellal Center as part of a world tour. The first is a lovely story by Ivan Bunin about a missed opportunity. A “white” general who is living out his disappointment with life in…
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The Schmooze Following in the Footsteps of Abraham
Crossposted from Haaretz The Israelite fortress at Tel Arad is situated atop a high hill. An impressive structure, it is visible from a great distance. As I was sitting on the hill, looking out at the enormous expanse of the Negev, I thought of what William Ury, of Harvard University, had said to me the…
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The Schmooze Bringing French Poems to Pop
Crossposted from Haaretz Riff Cohen’s sweet and infectious new French pop song, “A Paris,” has been gaining popularity and radio exposure, mostly thanks to the video clip Cohen directed herself in Paris in collaboration with Ravid Kahalani, founder of the “Yemen Blues” project. Cohen, 27, is a francophone Tel Avivian. She is the daughter of…
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The Schmooze New Bible Museum To Be Built in Jerusalem
Crossposted from Haaretz A Bible museum that will include a sculpture garden featuring biblical characters and exhibits showing what daily life was like in biblical times will be built in the Jerusalem area, the cabinet decided in a unanimous vote on Sunday. “It’s absurd that in the land of the Bible, there is no center…
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The Schmooze If Not a Singer, Then an Actor
Crossposted from Haaretz I admit that after 40-odd years of theater-going and formulating evaluations of what I have seen and publishing them (which obligates me to form an opinion and makes it hard to evade expressing it), I am not entirely certain what the role of the director is in a theatrical production. This question,…
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The Schmooze Mothers in War at Rehovot Women’s Film Festival
Crossposted from Haaretz “How handsome he will be in uniform,” gushes Nina, the Polish mother at the center of the film “Beyond the Steppes,” about her infant son. “He will be the most handsome officer, like his father,” she adds to her girlfriend. The statement is not uttered in the idyll of peace but rather…
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The Schmooze Band From the North Country
Crossposted from Haaretz The Louisa band is still not so well known in Tel Aviv, but in the north of the country the rock band that Idan Talmud and Itay Sacharof formed has drawn a devoted audience for more than a year, despite their cautious abstention from too much publicity and exaggerated digital hype on…
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