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Beit Avi Chai presents "Jerusalem Syndrome": Conversations into the night about Jerusalem with Jerusalem residents It's stimulating, seductive, threatening, exhausting, challenging, elevating, humiliating. It's as though without the heavy stones in its foundations Jerusalem would explode from its intense conflicts and contrasts. Artists, cultural figures, and intellectuals try to figure read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Ma'aseh Tuvya": A musical journey in the footsteps of physician Tobias Cohn (1652-1729), in honor of the 300th anniversary of the publication of his book.The life of "Tobias the Physician" was full of travel and mystery. His book Ma'aseh Tuvya (Venice, 1708) is testimony to the rich life of his times. It is an encyclopedic work that covers theology, astronomy, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month--Iyar: The Zionist Vision"Every year, two major Zionist events are celebrated in the month of Iyar. What is the difference between the vision and the reality? Between depictions and ideology? An evening about big dreams and fascinating reality.With:Dr. Chaim Grossman, scholar of Israeli read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Born Guilty": What do the children of murderers look like?
The play will be performed twice:• Tuesday, April 13, 8:30 PM• Thursday, April 22, 8:30 PMAt mid-life you are called upon to give an account of something your parents did. Do you spring to their defense? What if your parents were active members of the Nazi party? A young read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Third Generation": Identity, belonging, and loss among the third generation descendants of Holocaust survivors.An event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day
The third generation, born in Israel after the Holocaust, is wrestling with unresolved questions of identity, belonging, and loss that are now emerging in various areas of culture and creativity. Three read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Stage One": an Amateur English Theater Festival over Passover 2010.
• March 31-April 2, 2010
During Passover 2010, Beit Avi Chai, in collaboration with Merkaz Hamagshimim Hadassah, is devoting three days to the very best of Jerusalem English-language Theater, shining a spotlight read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Seder-Leading Workshop": How is this night different from all other nights? A guide for the perplexed to the Israeli seder. Leading a seder for the first time? Frustrated by the "jabbering" of the Haggadah? Come prepare for the seder together with us: discover new ways of understanding the ancient text, introduce something of our own into the words of the ancients, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Independence Day"• Tuesday, April 20 (the evening after Independence Day)We're throwing a birthday party for the state!What will the Late Great Rabbi say in honor of Israel's 62th birthday? From what ethnic group will the winner of the Bible Quiz be? What will Aunt Fortuna cook? Who read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Half Colors, Half Voices" The Songs of Rachel Project.A concert of poems by Rachel set to new melodies by Ehud Ettun and Uriel Herman. An album of these songs came out about a year ago under the musical direction of Adi Renert. The disc was a big success, and this concert was organized in its wake. The concert ranges from classical
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Haggadah in Pictures": Two speakers explore the illustrations in the Passover Haggadah.
The pictures in the Haggadah are more than illustrations. They represent various interpretations of the text, in keeping with the place and time in which the Haggadah was published. Through the images and illustrations that surround the text, we encounter diverse perspectives read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Poetry and Immigration" Yossi Alfi hosts poet Erez Biton.Erez Biton immigrated from way out west in Algeria, and Yossi Alfi comes from Iraq, off in the east. The road from Biton's new book Timbisert: A Moroccan Bird to Alfi's first book How to Make an Iraqi is strewn with men, women, landscapes, and various kinds of yearning that are shared by the read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Fact and Fiction: Diversity Within -- A five-part series of film and discussion, moderated by Amy Kronish.
*The series will host directors and script writers, including Dan Wolman, David Deri, Ofer Ron, and others.*
Jerusalem is home to thousands of English speakers-students from the United States who have come to study, immigrants both old read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month--Nissan.
Nisan is the month of redemption. We start off the month by pondering redemption, faith, destruction, and the difference between them.
Moderator: Prof. Avigdor Shinan
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• Dr. Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Department of Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv University-" ‘We read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Journey to the Bene Israel Community in India": A fascinating evening about Jewish roots on the subcontinent, in collaboration with the Indian Embassy in Israel.The Bene Israel are the most ancient Jewish community in India. The community's unique narrative is the tale of the vitality and vulnerability of a tiny minority that lived under Hindu and Muslim read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "One Spring for Me": The love story of Leah Goldberg, back by popular demand.
A performance of Leah Goldberg’s love poems: singer Ronit Ophir, musician Alona Turel, and actress Livia Chachmon bring to the stage the stations of love in Goldberg’s poems.
The evening will include a story and many poems and songs from her beloved 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 11 AMArtistic director: Jackie Levy
Vayehi - Greatest hitsThe top sketches and songs of Kalabbat read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Voices of the Levites": Tracing the lost musical instruments of the Temple.
A unique concert based on the ancient musical instruments of the Temple in an old yet new interpretation.
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Avital Raz, vocals, gittit, asor, and figs
Guy Saraf, sheminit, David’s harp, pomegranate, tsiltsal, read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Otmuna," a lecture series on Art and Torah in the beit midrash. The subject of this series is "Names."What is the significance of our given name? Where does it come from and where does it take us? In a series of encounters with Jewish texts and works of art, we will learn the origins of names, the stories behind the names, both common and unique ones, and the read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "On Poetry and Immigration": Yossi Alfi tells stories and hosts poet Agi Mishol.An evening with two individuals from different places who came to share the same story.Agi Mishol immigrated to Israel from Transylvania at the age of three. Yossi Alfi also came to Israel at the age of three, in 1949, from Iraq. The Israeli identity of the two of them is read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Demons and Spirits: The supernatural in Jewish tradition, psychology, and Hebrew poetry," with Talmud scholar Dr. Ruchama Weiss and clinical psychologist Avner Hacohen.
Demons and evil spirits, witches and magicians, mediums and necromancers-the supernatural has intrigued humanity since the dawn of its existence and continues to terrify us at night even today. read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month--Adar: Dressing Up:" Adar is a month in which costumes, confusion and deception figure prominently. During this evening we will explore some of the cultural aspects of the special, amusing character of the month.With:• Journalist Ruvik Rosenthal, "Mixed-up Hebrew: Intentional and Unintentional Malapropisms"• Yehudit read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "O My Country: Tu Bishevat at Beit Avi Chai."What is Eretz Israel for us? Our homeland? The promised land? The Holy Land? Or just a land like any other? What place do we designate for feelings and beliefs about our country in our inner, cultural, and public worlds? In honor of Tu Bishevat, BEIT AVI CHAI invites you to an evening of study and conversation read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Seventh Day and the question of Israeli identity"
"The most important document thus far about this war ... This book describes a series of meetings that may shape the soul and consciousness of an entire generation." (Haim Gouri)The Seventh Day (Siah Lohamim in the original Hebrew version), published after the Six-Day War, quickly became read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Song of an Ordinary Day: Nurit Hirsch sings Yair Rosenblum."Nurit Hirsch in a tribute concert to composer and musician Yair Rosenblum, one of the most important Hebrew songwriters, known primarily as a composer for IDF ensembles. Among his songs are "Karnaval ba-Nahal," "Arba Aharei ha-Tzohorayyim," "Hayiti Na'ar," "Ma Avarekh," "Anshei ha-Demama," "Lu Hayiti read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Seven Species--A culinary workshop for Tu Bishevat": Why is the Jewish people likened to wheat? And why do we hope to have our merits multiply like the seeds of a pomegranate? Why are honest and righteous people held to resemble figs? And what is the connection between the seven species and fertility and abundance?In honor of Tu Bishevat,
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