Мусрара – школа фотографии, медиа и новой музыки имени Наггара в Иерусалиме. Фотографии Никиты Павлова. Вся серия тут.

Kitp.ru | Nikitapavlov.com

And their website is pretty cool too: JewishRobot.com

Read Michelle Citrin’s cuccess story in NY Times: Road to Broadway Is Paved With ‘Matzah’

This one is too cute to pass by… Too fucking cute.
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Альбом “Volk” (”Волк”, да) состоит из вариаций на гимны разных стран. Вот, например “Хатыква”, пафосно как только Лайбах умеет.

Article in New York Times, Travel section. Talks mostly about “Russian” enclave in Ashdod.

Artist lives in Williamsburg (Brooklyn), area populated by hipsters and hassids.

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Митбахон (на иврите означает “кухня”, место где готовят, едят и общаются), это проект который ведёт десяток эмиссаров из Израиля. Все они – молодые люди родом из Former Soviet Union. Задача проекта примерно: создать сообщество/network молодых евреев из FSU на базе интереса к Израилю, еврейской истории и культуре.

Несколько цитат из статьи в Jta.org о семинаре: “Finding their way into the community doesn’t mean the Russian immigrants don’t have a deep sense of who they are and where they come from. The notion of “discovering” their Jewish identity seems foreign to many of them, even laughable. They’re Jewish because they’re Jewish, they say — what eludes them, for the most part, is Judaism. <...> But just because they feel apart from the mainstream American Jewish community doesn’t mean they aren’t flexing their muscle and looking to build something of their own. <...> We are a community, and a relatively strong one, and we can teach other communities how to find their identity”

Тур по дизайнерским студиям и агенствам, интервью с авторами и т.п.

From film’s Facebook page: Awake Zion is a documentary that reveals the unsuspecting links between Rasta, Reggae and Judaism, through a musical and spiritual sojourn exploring the meaning of identity.

Through one woman’s musical odyssey exploring the meaning of identity, Awake Zion is a documentary that explores the mysterious connections between Rasta, Reggae and Judaism. All the way back to the alleged sultry affair between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, a certain blend of Jewish flavor has crept into the spiritual history of Ethiopia, turning up subtly in Rastafarian lifestyle, and then inevitably in reggae. Consider that one of the first reggae songs ever broadcast on radio was called “Israelites,” or that Rastas and Orthodox Jews share fundamental views towards faith, dietary and sexual ethics, and particularly the notion of repatriation.

Awake Zion brings together Jewish and Jamaican artists, scholars, and historians in a celebration of music, roots, and culture, on a personal journey that starts in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where Caribbean and Jewish cultures have a history of adversity; to Jamaica, the birthplace of reggae, and ultimately to Israel, where a sizzling reggae scene thrives.

Through one woman’s musical odyssey exploring the meaning of identity, Awake Zion is a documentary that explores the mysterious connections between Rasta, Reggae and Judaism. All the way back to the alleged sultry affair between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, a certain blend of Jewish flavor has crept into the spiritual history of Ethiopia, turning up subtly in Rastafarian lifestyle, and then inevitably in reggae. Consider that one of the first reggae songs ever broadcast on radio was… (read more)

Mission: Awake Zion aims to deconstruct what it means to be Jewish, what it means to be Rasta, what it means to be black or white, and to focus on the power of tolerance and open-mindedness in the face of one’s own roots. Everyone, with his/her own worldview, is forever chasing some kind of Zion—be it geographic, material or spiritual. Awake Zion reminds you that, despite the struggle to get there, you are somehow always home.

In photo above: dr. israel, matisyahu, sister carol, Monica Haim (photos), superdane, fire, Yossi Fine.

В Times статья о хасидской женщине по имени Итта Шварц, которая так пеклась о продолжении рода, что около 2 тысяч моих однофамильцев обязаны ей своим рождением. Итта умерла в прошлом месяце в возрасте 93 лет, оставив после себя 15 детей (ещё трое погибли), 200 внуков и т.д.