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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 "The New 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 read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The New 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 read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Madness, Spirituality, and Creativity": A Dialogue between the Talmud and Psychology.
Since the days of the prophets, the intellectual greats have struggled with the question of sanity. Are geniuses necessarily mad? Does creativity arise at the edge of sanity? A dialogue between the Talmud and psychology on the complex connection between creativity and mental stability.
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Fish Stories": A culinary workshop on fish.What special powers are attributed to fish, and why do fish appear in so many amulets? What was the first stuffed fish? What are the unique qualities of a Pisces, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The New 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 read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Orchestra": An original musical composition. • Wednesday, December 8, 8:30 PMAn original musical drama for narrator and string orchestra by composer Aaron Razel, based on S. J. Agnon's story "The Orchestra" (from Sefer ha-ma'asim)This is a tale of personal soul-searching on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. In a plot that wavers between read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Kicking Off the Month--Tevet: Rationalism Versus Mysticism• Tuesday, December 7, 8 PMTevet is the month of the passing of Maimonides, and centuries later, of the passing of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, author of the Tanya. The two schools of thought span the breadth of Jewish philosophy, from rationalism to mysticism, from the hidden to the revealed.
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Heroes Return": Hanukkah activities for children and parents.
On Hanukkah, the great heroes return to BEIT AVI CHAI.BEIT AVI CHAI gets festive for Hanukkah, the holiday of heroism. Throughout the festival, rooms throughout BEIT AVI CHAI will become areas for challenging games with mysterious riddles, surprising tasks, and theatrical
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The New 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 read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Rock of Ages": The Hanukkah Piyyutim of Moroccan Jewry.• Thursday, December 2, 8:30 PMThe first performance of its kind to spotlight the unique Hanukkah piyyutim of Moroccan Jewry, old and new, written by paytanim over the generations, among them "Am Ne'emani," "Maoz Tzur," "and "Eli Aromemenu."With Rabbi Haim Biton and his students, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Pita with Goulash."• Sunday, November 28, 20:00An evening about the rib-tickling humor of Hungarian-Israelis, in conjunction with the Hungarian Embassy in Israel.The cultural baggage that Hungarians brought with them is seasoned with heaps of humor. Seeing a lightly drawn caricature of a prominent figure or watching a play by Kishon read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The New 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 read more
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Beit Avi chai presents "Table: Classwork": A play based on the works of Ida Fink.• Sunday, November 14, 8:30 PM• Wednesday, November 24, 8:30 PMFour witnesses testify about a roundup and massacre that took place in a city square during the Holocaust. The investigator is mainly interested in the table that may or may not have been in the square. Amidst read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "From Afghanistan to Here-Back by Popular Demand:" Piyyutim from Afghanistan and original songs inspired by the Sufi music of India, Pakistan, Turkey, and Iran.• Wednesday, November 24, 8:30 PMAn ensemble of leading Israeli musicians specializing in Sufi music read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Sobol and Us": A literary and theatrical presentation of works by Yehoshua Sobol.
• Tuesday, November 23, 8:30 PMYehoshua Sobol is undoubtedly one of the brightest and most provocative commentators on Jewish and Israeli culture. In the play The Night of the Twentieth, he artfully recreates the strange experiences of Hashomer Hatza'ir read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The New 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 read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Kicking Off the Month--Kislev: Just Add Oil• Sunday, November 7, 8:30 PMA plethora of Hanukkiyot glow this month from every window, reminding us of the Golden Menorah that stood in the Holy Temple. What is the role of the menorah in the Jewish culture? What did it symbolize in the past? And how did it become the undisputed symbol of the Jewish read more
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Beit Avi Chai's Music on Mondays series presents Riki Gal• Saturday, November 6, 10 PMThe leading rock singer, first appearance at BEIT AVI CHAI opens the intimate winter series. Gal will sing her all-time greatest hits and interactively present stories and experiences from her childhood in Jerusalem-from her kabbalist grandfather's home to her years with Christian missionaries.
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**Kalabbat Shabbat Returns To Beit Avi Chai**In a new season, more sarcastic than ever.Jackie Levy and the Incubator actors cut into live flesh.Open-heart surgery for your week!News and detours to the weekly Torah portion.Fridays at 11 AM, starting on Friday, November 5.
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Beit Avi Chai presents a lecture series: The Zionist Challenge over the Generations -- Israeli Existence: Past, Present, and Future.
The Israel-Diaspora relationship, the existence of Israel in the face of the Palestinian-Arab situation, the relationship between Jews and Arabs-these major issues concern us just as they did the founders of Zionism over a century ago. Newspaper headlines read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "She Came and Went": A new encounter with Dalia Ravikovitch.A performance of the poet's well-known poems, set to music by Chava Alberstein, Shem Tov Levi, Matti Caspi, Yehudit Ravitz, and others, along with new tunes written specially for this concert, and short stories and personal experiences told by the poet's read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Dance-Movement-Prayer": Contemporary dance meets tradition, religion, and prayer.
A joint project of Hama'abada (The Lab), the Israel Choreographers Association, and BEIT AVI CHAI.Two evenings of dance focusing on prayer in the language of movement. The project connects between tradition and modernity and between sound and movement, creating original read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Meal Tests": Meals as occasions for conflict and compassion.
A Talmudist, a psychologist, a cleric, and a culture scholar discuss the meal as a cultural and family event, following the publication of Dr. Ruchama Weiss's book Okhlim Lada'at (Meal Tests: The Meal in the World of the Sages).
With: Sherry Ansky, scholar of food culture-on the laws read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Security: The anniversary of the assassination of PM Yitzhak Rabin Z.L. -- Three
discussions of security in Israeli society and its ramifications for
democracy, freedom of expression, and civil rights in Israel.Moderator: Moshe Shlonsky, journalist and military commentatorWith: Prof. Itzhak Galnoor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Van Leer Institute: read more
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