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Beit Avi Chai presents "Sing Along with Yossi Lev and Friends - Blue Shirt, Straw Hat"Thursday, May 3, 8:30 PM An evening of songs from the youth movements, the summer camps, and the Russian songs we all grew up on, including Hahor shebagrush, Vanya vehatzivonim, and Tekhol hamitpahat.Guests: Ofira Glusca (Shalva, Hurshat ha'ekaliptos, Besimla Aduma) and read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kalabbat Shabbat Special - Mayday Special"Wednesday, May 2, 20:30In honor of May 1st, International Workers' Day, the Kalabbat Shabbat crew get together to clarify a few issues:Do we also deserve a Worker's Day (or maybe an Unemployment Day)?Is there a work ethic here (or is it all just funny business)?Who will be the first one to read more
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Beit Avi chai presents "Voice of the People - Protest in Contemporary Israeli Art": A New Exhibition at Beit Avi Chai.This exhibition of contemporary art deals with protest, space, and action. The works on display represent the public space as one that allows movement, action, and an aspiration towards ethical improvement, where read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Saturday Night Line-up of Original Israeli Music.Saturday Night Line-up: Renewal - Israel's leading contemporary artists pay homage to the pioneers of Israeli culture - poets, musicians, composers, artists, and performers. At every concert, an artist performs new arrangements of songs that shaped Israeli culture. Musical director: Assaf Amdursky.Saturday read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month" for Nissan 5772.Sunday, April 22, 20:00Kicking Off the Month - Iyar: Bar KochbaIn the month when children collect wooden planks and wrap potatoes in aluminum foil for the Lag Ba‘omer bonfire, we discuss the true identity of Bar Kokhba and ask the question: was he a hero or a false messiah? What can read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Saturday Night Line-up of Original Israeli Music.Saturday Night Line-up: Renewal - Israel's leading contemporary artists pay homage to the pioneers of Israeli culture - poets, musicians, composers, artists, and performers. At every concert, an artist performs new arrangements of songs that shaped Israeli culture. Musical director: Assaf Amdursky.Saturday read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "That's Not How You Write "Holocaust" - An Event for Holocaust Memorial Day"Thursday, April 19, 8 PM Author Ida Fink, Israel Prize laureate in literature in 2008, passed away in early 2011. In her lifetime she created a new, daring language in which she wrote about her experiences during the Holocaust. Her books, written in Polish, expose the reader read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Stage One #3: Amateur English Theater Festival Jerusalem, Passover, 2012 | April 8-10, 2012 During Passover 2012, Beit Avi Chai is devoting three
days to the very best of Jerusalem English-language Theater, shining a
spotlight on this thriving subculture while offering a unique perspective on
issues of identity and culture from both the local and read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Stage One #3: Amateur English Theater Festival Jerusalem, Passover, 2012 | April 8-10, 2012 During Passover 2012, Beit Avi Chai is devoting three
days to the very best of Jerusalem English-language Theater, shining a
spotlight on this thriving subculture while offering a unique perspective on
issues of identity and culture from both the local and read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Stage One #3: Amateur English Theater Festival Jerusalem, Passover, 2012 | April 8-10, 2012 During Passover 2012, Beit Avi Chai is devoting three
days to the very best of Jerusalem English-language Theater, shining a
spotlight on this thriving subculture while offering a unique perspective on
issues of identity and culture from both the local and read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Saturday Night Line-up of Original Israeli Music.Saturday Night Line-up: Renewal - Israel's leading contemporary artists pay homage to the pioneers of Israeli culture - poets, musicians, composers, artists, and performers. At every concert, an artist performs new arrangements of songs that shaped Israeli culture. Musical director: Assaf Amdursky.Saturday read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Saturday Night Line-up of Original Israeli Music.Saturday Night Line-up: Renewal - Israel's leading contemporary artists pay homage to the pioneers of Israeli culture - poets, musicians, composers, artists, and performers. At every concert, an artist performs new arrangements of songs that shaped Israeli culture. Musical director: Assaf Amdursky.Saturday read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents gallery talks inspired by its current exhibition, "In the Name of Protest." The talks will consist of dialogues between curator Haggai Segev and special guests.Friday March 2, 10:00Session 1: Prof. Avraham Diskin, political scientist and consultant, on the sociopolitical aspect of the protest.Limited space. Free admission with advanced registration
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Beit Avi Chai presetns "The Jewish Maqam": The series returns with special guests and new arrangementsA journey to the roots of classic Mizrahi music as found in Biblical cantillation, prayer, and sacred Jewish songMusical direction: Piris Eliyahu
Six concerts with explanations about the maqam, the basic structure read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Spies": Top Artists Scout out the Israeli LandscapeLeading Israeli artists in a musical and textual encounter with various locations in Israel.In each concert, the artists (a different one each time) present their favorite songs together with video clips and original music influenced by the read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Singing the Words": Classic poems in Hebrew song-a series of encounters with musical accompanimentEditor, host, and performer: Dr. Ori LeshmanFrom Bialik to Zach and from Rachel to Hanoch Levine, Hebrew poetry was and remains a rich resource for songs and an important document of the Israeli spirit.A new look at the great Israeli poems from all periods. read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "An Evening of Mizrahi Song" - On the Link between Israeli Song and Arab Culture.Tuesday, March 27, 20:30 This evening traces the roots of modern Mizrahi song and examines the link between the Israeli-Mizrahi and Arab cultures. A large variety of moving Mizrahi works will be read, performed, and acted out by poets, actors, politicians, and social activists.
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month" for Nissan 5772.Sunday, March 25, 20:00Kicking Off the Month - Nissan: Freedom of ExpressionThe Holiday of Freedom is a wonderful opportunity to discuss freedom of expression and its limits. How are Jewish ethics related to the media? Does free journalism truly exist? | Host: Dr. Chen Marx, scholar read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Saturday Night Line-up of Original Israeli Music.Saturday Night Line-up: Renewal - Israel's leading contemporary artists pay homage to the pioneers of Israeli culture - poets, musicians, composers, artists, and performers. At every concert, an artist performs new arrangements of songs that shaped Israeli culture. Musical director: Assaf Amdursky.Saturday read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Jews of the Maghreb": A fresh perspective on North African Jewry.This series of lectures traces the history of the Jews of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco over the past century. How had Jewish culture developed in the region? How were the Mugrabi Jews influenced by European colonialism? How did Zionism and immigration to Israel affect them? How did they remake their read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Saturday Night Line-up of Original Israeli Music.Saturday Night Line-up: Renewal - Israel's leading contemporary artists pay homage to the pioneers of Israeli culture - poets, musicians, composers, artists, and performers. At every concert, an artist performs new arrangements of songs that shaped Israeli culture. Musical director: Assaf Amdursky.Saturday read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Lamenaze'ach Beneginot" - Young artists inspired by Psalms.Final session: Lamenaze'ach Beneginot is a joint venture with the Hillel House, now in its second year. As part of the workshop, students and young adults engaged in textual study and create works inspired by Psalms.Their works will be presented at the final event, after which the winners will read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Story of Rabbi Amnon of Mainz (Magenza/Mayence)." This composition by Ron Weidberg was inspired by the legend of Rabbi Amnon of Mainz. The New Israel Vocal Ensemble presents one of the most moving Israeli pieces of recent years. The legend of Rabbi Amnon, which first appeared in writing in Sefer Or Zaru‘a (13th century), has been set to
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Human Choice - A Workshop."Should I drink tea or coffee? Go on a trip or study in university? Stay or leave? From the small details to the major decision - life is the sum total of the choices we make. In this six-session workshop about choice, we examine the essence of the concept in Jewish sources and become acquainted with the inner strengths that help read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Night Owl": Rona Kenan and Dory Manor Talk and Sing. A literary and musical encounter with musician Rona Kenan and poet and translator Dory Manor. The two discuss the link between Hebrew poets and the musicians who set their poems over the years, such as Nathan Alterman and Sasha Argov; Nathan Zach and Matti Caspi; Eran Tsur and Yona Wallach. Kenan and Manor perform read more
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