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Section: Art & Music

Solly’s Garden

Posted on 09 September 2008

Solly’s Garden, an original play, recently appeared on the stage at the Off-the-Wall Comedy Club in Jerusalem. The show is the brainchild of Jerusalemite Yehezkel Laing, originally from Montreal, Canada. Yehezkel studied acting under Shuli Rand at the Maaleh Film School, as well as at the Nissan ...

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Facing Challenges: Soul Singer

Posted on 09 September 2008

Judith Gerzi’s music career is rapidly gaining momentum. The English-born singing success recently wowed the crowds in Jerusalem as a finalist in the Professional Women’s Theatre’s Wanna Be a Star competition. She then went on to England to dazzle the audiences back home with her deep, soul-style ...

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YLove & DJ Handler: Jewish Rap Goes A Capella

Posted on 25 August 2008

Last year, Yitz Jordan, know by his stage name “Y-Love,” released the world’s first vocals-only hip-hop album.

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Pharaoh’s Daughter

Posted on 07 August 2008

FROM BAIS YAAKOV TO THE MARKETS OF TURKEY, WITH A TOUCH OF LED ZEPPELIN ALONG THE WAY A psychedelic sensibility and a pan-Mediterranean texture mixed with the rhythms of chanting tefillot in Hasidic Borough Park. A young woman begins her journey during childhood, singing zemirot at the Shabbat table with her brothers and father. ...

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Ketzev Hakokus

Posted on 07 August 2008

"COCONUT MAN" BRINGS FUN WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS TO ISRAEL Like every week in Raanana, Boaz walks into the kindergarten dressed like pre-historic man and takes out a large drum from his bag. He sits on the floor of the gan and begins to bang the drum. Creating a contagious rhythm, the children circle around ...

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Nofim Gallery

Posted on 05 August 2008

Location: Ben Sira 24, Jerusalem (near the intersection of Shlomzion HaMalka.) Hours: Sunday-Thursday, from 10-3pm and 4-6pm Current Exhibit: Alon Conrad, Ukranian-born Israeli oleh. Paints in in oil, specializing in landscapes and Jewish subjects. Those who have been to Jerusalem’s city center recently may have noticed the upsurge in fine art galleries that line the streets of ...

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Painting Divine Insights

Posted on 31 July 2008

Name: Baruch Nachshon Location: Kiryat Arba Country of Origin: Israel (born in Haifa, 1939) Type of Art: Paintings, prints, specializes in "Giclee" prints for color accuracy. The masterpieces of renown artist, Baruch Nachshon, are some of the most compelling artistic images of Jewish life today. Nachshson’s art covers a wide range of thematic material with vibrant colors and ...

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Art Nova Gallery

Posted on 30 July 2008

The Art Nova Gallery, located in Moshav Bet Nekofa, at the entrance to Abu Gush, is one of the few studios in the world that offers soft art paintings; an innovative form of art, introduced in Israel nearly thirty years ago. The first thing we noticed as we entered the studio was the four artists ...

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Portrait of an Artist

Posted on 29 July 2008

Name: Moshe Tzvi HaLevi Berger Location: Center of Jerusalem Age: 83 Country of Origin: Romania Length of time in Israel: 15 years Type of Art: Kabbalistic paintings depicting each of the 150 psalms and a series of 42 paintings based on the Biblical concept of the sun as a conduit for healing. Describe what you do: Life is a creation ...

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Portrait of an Artist

Posted on 23 July 2008

Name: Pete Isacowitz Location: Rosh Pina Age: 60 Marital status: Married with three children Country of origin: South Africa Length of time in Israel: 30 years Type of Art: Creates wooden African instruments such as kalimbas, didgeridoos and marimbas. Also door harps, Celtic harps, musical tables and musical sculptures. Describe what you do: I ...

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A Master Artist Speaks: The Painting of a Megilla by the Louis Family

Posted on 14 July 2008

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Dovid Yehoshua Makes Waves with New Album & Video

Posted on 09 July 2008

His debut album, released in early June, already has him doing interviews throughout the Israeli media including Arutz Sheva, Reshet Bet, and Radio Kol Chai to name but a few.

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Professional Women’s Theater

Posted on 03 June 2008

Do they live upstanding, yet professionally repressed (or at best, sublimated and channeled) lives as halachically observant Jews, or wrestle with self-contradiction, hypocrisy and their very identities as they ignore the inconvenient truths of their inner convictions?