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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Jewish Dog": A play based on the bestseller by Asher Kravitz.• Wednesday, July 14, 8:30 PM• Sunday, July 18, 8:30 PMThe story of a Jewish family in Berlin against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933, the struggle against the Nazis, the end of the war, and clandestine immigration to Eretz Israel-all from the perspective read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "For Whom Shall I Weep?": A pre-Tisha Be'av evening of lamentation, thoughts, and intentions Three soul singers and two ney players play ancient and new lamentations together.With them are poet Rivka Miriam and artist Kobi Oz to discuss the many facets of Tisha Be'av today.Moderator: Dr. Meir BuzagloWith:Lea Avraham, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Kicking Off the Month--AvAv: Trouble comes in bunchesThe month of Av brings us lots of negative events in Jewish history. Is this coincidental or deliberate? Moderator: Prof. Avigdor ShinanWith: Dr. Noah Hacham, Hebrew University: "Five things befell our forefathers on the ninth read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Bread": Let's bake and talk about bread.How do you like your bread? Chef Yossi Ben-Dayan and Prof. Avigdor Shinan invite you to an educational culinary experience of bread-the soft part and the crust.The workshop will demonstrate how to prepare breads from various cuisines. We will learn about the tremendous significance of bread in the Bible, in aggadic read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Reflections of Israel" Three conversations with Dana Weiss on trust in Israeli society.In preparation for Tisha Be'av, the emblem of destruction in Israeli society, Israeli society must ask itself some incisive questions. Does it protect itself against crises? Are its weaknesses being dealt with appropriately? Three conversations. Three guests. Three instances read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Let's Meet on Joyous Occasions": Jewish rituals in Israeli society.What happens there, in that interdisciplinary, intergenerational, interfaith meeting place of ancient religious rituals and contemporary Israeli life? In this series we explore how the rituals are carried out in contemporary Israeli society and culture, what they mean to those who observe them, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kalabbat Shabbat": The Incubator actors continue with its funniest season ever.With you every Friday with a winning format: songs, comedy sketches, study, a guest, the weekly Torah portion, and moreEvery Friday at 13:00Artistic director: Jackie Levy
In July and August: Open read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Tel Aviv-New York -- Authentic jazz with a touch of the Mediterranean" Top Israeli jazz musicians who live and work in New York come to BEIT AVI CHAI for a concert series blending East and West, piyyut and percussion, and uncover a fascinating connection between the Mediterranean side of Israel and traditional read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Slaughtering the Cow Is Back" - By popular demand, following the success of the first season.Is there a God? Where was He? What happens after death? When was the world created and when will it be destroyed? We will answer these fateful questions and more every week at P7, while having a drink and mooing!!Under the supervision of Yair Lehman and read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Oranges!": Songs of the sixties and the fascinating stories behind them, with the special presentation of Kobi LuriaCome join us for the songs that tell the story of the old Israel in the days of Lipa the Coachman and David Ben-Gurion, from "Shir ha-Shekhuna" to the "Song for Peace" and from the Gesher Hayarkon Trio to "Malkhut ha-Hermon." For aficionados of song, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Persian Spirit": A musical and theatrical celebration of Persian music, by composer Shaul Bustan, based on classic Persian folktales and songs. With Liraz Charhi.
Part 1: King Bahram Gur and His Beautiful MaidservantOriginal musical theater based on a Persian folktale in read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Zarathustra in Jerusalem" Prof. David Ohana looks at Nietzsche and Hebrew culture."Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?" (Nietzsche)The ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) influence thinkers and cultural figures to this day. The man who gave Western philosophy nihilism and the will to power has influenced various groups: read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "When Words Stop and Think": Song and conversation about Hebrew poetry.Three events in conjunction with Hillel Jerusalem bring together artists and intellectuals to focus on Hebrew song, Israeli music, and the difference between them. Each event includes a bit of talk, a read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month--Tammuz: Sunny dayIn the month of Tammuz we feel the full intensity of the Israeli sun. As the month begins, let's talk about global warming, about Israeli culture looking for shelter, and about life in the shadow of the strongest light of them all. Moderator: Prof. Avigdor ShinanWith: • Dr. Alon Angert, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Ode to Joseph: A Play" What do you do when Joseph's Tomb in Nablus is burning and you're inside?
A Druse, a Jew, and an Arab are trapped inside Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, and the tomb is on fire. This isn't the beginning of a joke; it's a play produced by the Mar'a Theater in Kiryat Shemona.Will the people learn to live together? Will they be left to die? read more
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Beit Avi Chai and SPNI present a unique summer package:
Every Friday, a fascinating tour with SPNI tourguides in one of Jerusalem's enchanted neighborhoods, followed by Beit Avi Chai's renowned Kalabbat Shabbat show (the sixth consecutive season) - members of the Incubator and Jacky Levy with skits, songs, and satire on the weekly portion.
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Here and Now": On the concept of now in Israeli culture.The poetry journal Achshav, which has published hundreds of poems by the best Israeli poets, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. This joint event, organized by Achshav and BEIT AVI CHAI, is a tribute to Hebrew poetry since the establishment of the state.Panel discussion: The concept of now in read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Tel Aviv-New York -- Authentic jazz with a touch of the Mediterranean" Top Israeli jazz musicians who live and work in New York come to BEIT AVI CHAI for a concert series blending East and West, piyyut and percussion, and uncover a fascinating connection between the Mediterranean side of Israel and traditional read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kalabbat Shabbat": The Incubator actors continue with its funniest season ever.With you every Friday with a winning format: songs, comedy sketches, study, a guest, the weekly Torah portion, and moreEvery Friday at 13:00Artistic director: Jackie Levy
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Human Image": Shavuot night at Beit Avi Chai.
A fascinating interdisciplinary evening about Adam, and of course Eve, from many different perspectives: Dust and ashes or the pinnacle of creation? Servant of God or a being with freedom of choice? And as a general question, is human nature good or bad? Join us for Beit Avi Chai's
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month--Sivan: Double.In honor of the month whose sign is Gemini, let's see whether it's true that good things come in twos. Moderator: Prof. Avigdor ShinanWith: • Prof. Lee Levine, Hebrew University-on the appearance of signs of the zodiac and the god Helios on synagogue floors in Israel in late antiquity• Actress read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Avot 2010": A look at the fathers.The fourth season of the successful lecture series at BEIT AVI CHAI focuses on the rabbis themselves. Five sessions on the special people behind Pirkei Avot, their lives, the schools where they studied and taught, their aspiration to improve the world, and their place in Jewish history.Organizer and moderator: Ariel read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kalabbat Shabbat celebtrates 3 years!"The Incubator and Jackie Levy celebrate Jerusalem Day with a special show.Everyone's invited to a wild first-haircut celebration! What blessing will the Late Great Rabbi (long may he live) give Jerusalem? Who will win the Western Wall note championship? Where will Fortuna go on the Jerusalem March? Who will have read more
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"Spirit Constructions - Israel Hadany: the Quest for the Sacred" is the new exhibit on display at Beit Avi Chai.
An exhibition in which sculpture and architecture meet in wooden structures that seek to create formal definitions of sacred space.The concept of beauty in these sculpted structures combines the Western aesthetic tradition with traces of other cultures to create read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Reading Leviticus": Honey from a rock: midrashim on the book of LeviticusSacrifices, leprosy, laws of the priesthood, and laws of festivals-out of all these the rabbis of Eretz Israel in the first centuries of the Common Era created one of the most interesting and most fascinating collection of midrashim in our possession. A reading of Leviticus Rabbah takes read more
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