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Beit Avi Chai presents Kicking Off the Month--Adar Bet.The Month of Adar Bet: Jewish Humor-there is such a thingSunday, March 6, 8:30 PMAt the start of the only Jewish month in which happiness and laughter are not considered frivolous, but rather a real mitzvah, we will take a look at Jewish humor, at its roots and characteristics. An evening of discussion about read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Person, Place, Picture": Local photography in Eretz Israel.For 150 years, Eretz Israel-landscape, sites, and people-has been photographed, resulting in a beautiful view of the evolution of modern Jewish-Israeli identity. Against the backdrop of the country's landscapes, the Zionist enterprise-and with it, the people- was documented from its inception.
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Between Calendars: The Chamber Version."Thursday, February 10, 8:30 PMSunday, February 13, 8:30 PMBased on the book by Netiva Ben-YehudaAn intimate, chamber rendition of the play Bein ha-Sefirot (Between Calendars), staged in conjunction with the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group. The play won the 2009 Golden Hedgehog (Fringe Theater) awards read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Agenda."Sessions with Intellectuals and activists on pressing, painful issues. In conjunction with the Institute for Social Justice, headed by Rabbi Dr. Benny Lau.Every day, Israeli society faces fundamental questions about the existence of a sovereign Jewish state: questions concerning poverty, justice, equality, and mutual responsibility. read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "My Successful Child": A celebratory evening in honor of poet Ayin Hillel.A musical-literary performance based on the works of poet Ayin Hillel (Hillel Omer), marking the 20th anniversary of his passing and the publication of the book Yossi Yeled Sheli Mutzlah. The evening will feature works by the poet, songs, stories of his childhood on the kibbutz, childhood read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Wars of the Jews": Ideological debates, political disputes, and cultural rifts have been major parts of Jewish life over the generations, sometimes leading the parties to the brink of civil war. Five conversations with top historians about the roots of the major disputes that have split the nation in the modern era and still resound in the public discourse.
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Beit Avi Chai presents Kicking Off the Month--Adar I: Sun, Moon, Leap Year.The function of the month of Adar I is to align the lunar calendar with the solar calendar. As we begin the month, we'll talk about these powerful symbols: the sun and the moon. Moderator: Prof. Avigdor ShinanWith: Prof. Yair Zakovitz, Department of Bible, the Hebrew University-"Praise read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Slaughtering the Cow: Back for a new season.After a summer vacation in the Caribbean, the cow has recharged her batteries and is back for a new season. New episodes along with repeats from last season-back by popular demand-and many fateful questions. Prepare for the slaughter!Hosts: Yair Lehman and Inbal LoriTuesdays at 22:00
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Beit Avi Chai presents Nobody's Child Thursday, January 27, 8:30 PMSunday, January 30, 8:30 PM
Based on the book by Zipi Gon-Gross Racheli is coping with her mother's death by writing a one-woman play about her parents, in which she will play herself. Together with her director friend, she revisits their lives in the shtetl of Dubno, Poland, their experience read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Memory in the Making": An event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Can art become the keeper of Holocaust memories?
Beit Avi Chai, in collaboration with the San Diego Jewish Center, presents a simultaneous trans-Atlantic interactive event.
During the event the audience will be presented with musical and artistic works dealing read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "A Jew in New York": Works by American Jewish authors of the new generation.With a sharp, creative pen, young Jewish authors are staking out a central place in the American literary landscape, expressing their Jewishness and their attitudes towards Israel as a relevant, vibrant, central theme in world literature.A fascinating encounter with the works of Nathan read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kalabbat in Shvat": The Incubator and Jackie Levy, with a special fruit salad for Tu BiShvat.How do the planters really walk? Does the fruit get back at the Turks by drying them? Why do we have to conquer the country with our feet, Isn't four-wheel drive good enough? How much fruit does it take to dry the Hula? Where did Yatzek disappear to? Where is the eucalyptus read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Seven Species."Tuesday, January 11, 7 PM / Thursday, January 13, 7 PMA culinary series in honor of Tu BiShvatWhy are the Jews likened to olives? And why should we want our merits multiplied like pomegranate seeds? Why are women compared to figs, and what is the honey mentioned among the Seven Species? In honor of Tu BiShvat,
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saturday Night - Coming Home:" A line-up of original Israeli music.Artistic director: Nina BanaimProduction: Yan ProductionsAdmission: NIS 50; students: NIS 30, First drink on the houseSeating will be available for all concerts.
The top Israeli musicians hark read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Saul's Daughter."Thursday, January 6, 8:30 PMSunday, January 9, 8:30 PMThe tragedy of the House of Saul from Michal's perspectiveKing Saul's daughter Michal, the first Jewish princess, describes the tragic story of her family from her own sarcastic perspective. A witty, emotional theatrical dialogue with the daughter of the king whom read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Kicking Off the Month--Shvat: Land, Mud, and Swamp.In Shvat, farmers and ordinary people hope for rain and for the aroma of damp earth. As all eyes turn to the thirsty soil, we'll talk about land and mud in Israeli art and about the most famous swamp in Israel.Moderator: Dani Danieli, director of BEIT AVI CHAIWith: Dr. Gideon Ofrat, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Tirtza Atar: Ode to a Woman."
• Wednesday, December 29, 8:30 PMThis show lets us peer into the world of a sensitive, special, and diverse artist who, in her short life, wrote and published books of poetry, children's books, and translations of plays.The performance marks the publication of the book All the Lights Went read more
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