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Beit Avi Chai presnts "A Loving Touch-Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach": Songs and Stories of the Singing RabbiThursday, August 1, 8:30 PMHannan Yovel, Dvir Spiegel, and the Alma band, weave together Rabbi Carlebach's songs and stories of his life, with the sensitive touch of musicians. The concert creates a tapestry of the charismatic personality and multifaceted nature of one of the greatest read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents:Judaism through an International Lens: The World Congress of Jewish Studies Comes to BEIT AVI CHAILeading Israeli scholars host outstanding Judaic Studies scholars from all over the world in encounters open to the general publicOn Israel and the Nations, on Separation and SimilarityMonday, July 29, 8 PMDr. read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Touching What is No Longer": The world of Rivka Miriam's PoetryMonday, July 29, 8:30 PM Many consider Rivka Miriam as one of the strongest, most original, and emotionally charged voices in Hebrew poetry today. Actor and singer Baruch Brenner, and cellist and composer Rali Margalit set out on a musical and theatrical journey to the deepest recesses of Rivka read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Laughing with Shmemel:" A tribute to Israeli humorThursday, August 29, 9 PMThe energetic Shmemel band, with its special Groove ensemble, closes the summer at Beit AVI CHAI with a tribute to 65 years of humor in Israeli music.From Batzal Yarok through Yossi Banai, Hagashah Hahiver, Hanoch Levine, read more
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Iris and Ofer Portugali with the Gospel Choir present "Adon Haselihot": Jewish Gospel and Music from the Jewish Classics Sunday, July 28, 8:30 PMThe moving spirit of gospel combined with synagogue melodies in a concert that offers a variety of flavors, ethnicities and cultures, combining gospel and jazz with piyyutim, Jewish prayer, and local
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Slaughtering the Cow - Kosher Slaughter": A Biting and Witty Satire executed with FinesseTuesdays at Beit Mazia, 9 PM Yair Lehman, Inbal Lori, Eli Haviv, and guests ShabbatWhat's so special about the weekly Jewish rest day? Can you really rest on it? Is it really Jewish? Is it really a Day? The Cow observes the Sabbath... can someone read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Love Songs for Tu Be'Av": On the trail of Jewish folksongs (part of the "Sfat Em" series)Monday, July 22, 8:30 PMSongs of love, betrayal, longing, and weddings in Yiddish, Yemenite Arabic, Kurdish, Farsi, and Ladino, which together create a breathtaking and exciting mosaic of pictures, voices, and sounds.A moving collection of the unique songs read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Hatreds" a Tisha B'av program.Tuesday, July 16, from 1 PM until the end of the fast. What happens to our great hatreds when we take a look at them from up close?A look at the mechanisms of social and individual hatreds in Israel, as manifested in Israeli and international movies.Main FeatureScreenings of full-length films accompanied read more
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The Biblical Zoo and BEIT AVI CHAI present "Noah's Got the Power:" A new play for the whole familyThe show will take place on Wednesdays, at 5:45 & read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "I Flee from You to You: From Longing to New Hope with the Giants of Piyyut"Today, piyyutim fuel nostalgia for distant roots. But when they were written, the yearning they embody served as an ecstatic force, where the text arouses and evokes a connection with God. Scholars, poets, rabbis and artists take a look at four of the leading poets of Jewish Spain read more
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BEIT AVI CHAI invites you to fascinating encounters with texts from the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Aggadah. These programs, which run throughout the year, include lessons, study in small groups, and joint discussions in a beit midrash format. The program includes lectures by leading scholars of Talmud, Midrash, Aggadah, and the Bible. In light of the success over the past read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Judah is a Lion's Whelp": The story of a journey from Ethiopia to IsraelWednesday, June 26, 8:30 PMA one-man show based on the life story of the Ethiopian-Israeli actor Shai Fredo (Ashto). The play opens with the pastoral life in Ethiopia that Fredo knew as a child-full of joie de vivre, in a place where the concept of time had a different meaning. read more
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Beit Avi Chai "Havana in Tunis": Itai Abramovitch and the Rumba Baladi Ensemble in original arrangements of traditional Tunisian piyyutim Sunday, June 23, 8:30 PMAn exciting transcontinental journey that combines, for the first time, the music and rhythms of North Africa-especially of Tunisian Jewry-with Latin and read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Shabbat Secrets": The Ha'oman Chai Ensemble in a Twilight JourneyThursday, June 20, 8 PMThe Ha'oman Chai Ensemble embarks on a journey in the twilight-the transition period from the sacred to the profane and from the profane to the sacred-with Chassidic traditions of songs and music, settings read more
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Performance in English at Beit Avi Chai: HaHaFuch Presents: HaHaFun! A painfully Funny Evening in JerusalemSunday | June 16th | 8 p.m.Tuesday | June 18th | 8 p.m. Improv / Comedy Sketch / Video / And so much more!Actors:Josh Kaplan | Debbie Kaye | Eran Kraus | Molly Livingstone | Dudy StarckDirected by: Gary RudorenTickets: 50 read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Aggadat Deshe (A Grassy Legend)": The Best Songs of the Rural Settlement MovementMonday, June 17, 8:30 PMA moving evening that expresses the special world of the kibbutz through the songs created in the kibbutzim and other agricultural settlements, written and performed by leading artists.On the program: "Halleluyah," "Arba aharei tsaharayim," read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Slaughtering the Cow - Kosher Slaughter": A Biting and Witty Satire executed with FinesseTuesdays at Beit Mazia, 9 PM Yair Lehman, Inbal Lori, Eli Haviv, and guests The HolocaustDid they laugh in the ghetto? Do teens travel to Poland or do they only pass through on their way from the Duty Free? How do we cope with the Holocaust read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Songs in Ladino, Romances, and Piyyutim from Home": Guy and Roi Zuaretz and the Mediterranean Orchestra of Ashqelon Tuesday, June 11, 8 PMActor and TV anchor Guy Zuaretz and his brother Roi in a concert of Ladino songs from their grandmother's home in Salonika and piyyutim from read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month" for Tamuz 5773.Kicking Off the Month-Tammuz: DemonsSunday, June 9, 8 PMThe three weeks between the fasts of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and the Ninth of Av (bein ha-metzarim) are known as the period when the demons and the ghosts come out. This evening we will speak about demons in Kabbalah and in Jewish folkloreModerator: read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Avi ve-Imi (My Father and My Mother)": Special event for the launch of Aharon Appelfeld's New BookThursday, June 6, 8 PMAharon Appelfeld's new novel takes us back to the magical district of his childhood, the River Prut and the Carpathian Mountains, where he vacations with his parents in the summer before World War II-a month that will be forever read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Slaughtering the Cow - Kosher Slaughter": A Biting and Witty Satire executed with FinesseTuesdays at Beit Mazia, 9 PM Yair Lehman, Inbal Lori, Eli Haviv, and guests Emergency Call-up Order (Tzav 8) * NewDo we serve in the army or does it serve us? What is a people's army, and what people serve in it-filling up our buses on Sundays? read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Slaughtering the Cow - Kosher Slaughter": A Biting and Witty Satire executed with FinesseTuesdays at Beit Mazia, 9 PM Yair Lehman, Inbal Lori, Eli Haviv, and guests The Cow is Demographically Threatened * NewWhat is the demographic threat? It is something real, a sophisticated manipulation, or a prank at the expense of the contraception read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Moonlight Cinema in the BEIT AVI CHAI Courtyard": Four witty, biting, and often bizarre Israeli classics. Each, in its own way, exposes a facet of the essence of Israeli society.Editor and Moderator: Or Sigoli, Srita movie blog, Akhbar Ha'Ir OnlineAdmission: NIS 30; students: NIS 20Meduzot (Jellyfish)-Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret, 2007Saturday read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Deep in the Soil": A new interpretation of JNF posters.In cooperation with the Research Institute for the History of JNF-KKL and the Holon Institute of TechnologyAn exhibition of posters - new interpretations to JNF posters from the nineteen-thirties through the present.This fascinating and lively exhibition of young artists, students at the read more
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