Exhibition Curated by Radik Shvarts. Hosted by Generation R at the JCC in Manhattan.
Join us for the opening reception of Ticket to Jerusalem, an exhibition of entries from a year-long international mail-art project. “Ticket to Jerusalem” showcased the designs of artists from around the world who answered the call to design the “perfect airplane ticket to Jerusalem”. The tickets (boarding passes), all created on 8×3” sized medium, collectively form an image of the Promised Land that has long been sought out as a destination, whether for emigration, aliyah or pure pleasure.
Opening Reception in celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut: Tues. April 13th 7:30pm
At JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. (75-76 Str)
$5 tickets. (beautiful terrace with views of Manhattan, wine, cool Israeli music from 70s, as heard on Heebru.com)
Made possible by a grant from CWW, a project of COJECO, a UJA-FED NY beneficiary
Jellyfish (Meduzot)
Q&A with Etgar Keret moderated by Ira Glass
Mon, Apr 5 at 7pm
$9.99 (stop-motion animation)
Tue, Apr 6 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
“You would be hard pressed to find an Israeli who grew up in the 1990s and can’t remember the first time he or she read Missing Kissinger” —Time Out London
One the most irreverent and hilarious voices to emerge in contemporary Israeli literature, Etgar Keret began writing surreal, incisive short fiction during his military service and became famous for his second collection of stories, Missing Kissinger. Since then, he has seamlessly transferred his surreal, absurdist worldview from the page to the screen by writing screenplays and directed films, winning the Camera d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Yeshiva University Museum and Center for Jewish History present:
Sunday, April 11 at 2:00pm Blessed is the Match
Film Narrated by Joan Allen, this is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Blessed is the Match retraces the perilous mission of Hannah and 31 other Jewish-Palestinian parachutists and looks back on the life of a uniquely talented and complex girl who came of age in a world descending into madness. 2008, 85 minutes.
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, New York, New York 10011
Free with Museum admission, RSVP to programs@yum.cjh.org or 212-294-8330 x. 8816.
From israelfm.org: Onili burst onto the local scene in 2006 having returned from a prolonged exile in Paris, set up her studio somewhere in the Carmel Mountains, and just started shooting everywhere. Throughout the next 2 years she not only collaborated with Israel’s top urban & underground talents, but burnt Tel-Aviv’s hottest stages and venues with her pink-pink-assed-out show, steadily building a fanbase verging on cult following. Her Paris years, whilst alluding to a past somewhat shady, have also included Film Studies at the
Sorbonne, and lending her vocal arrangement and performance skills for ‘Superman Lovers’ 2001 summer-smash hit, Starlight.
Straight from the stages of SXSW she’s stopping in NYC for 3 shows:
March 27, 7:00pm @ Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street between 3rd and 4th Avenue in the Gowanus.
Also March 24, 4:00pm @ Best Buy – Union Square & March 25, 12:00am @ Nublu
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”
Good people at Aish Center invite you to celebrate Purim at Solo Restaurant/The Sony Atrium. They expect this year party to be HUGE. If you register for this event, please email me at kapt_n@yahoo.com, or call Aish Center at 212-579-1388 (they are extremely nice!) and tell them you were referred by Heebru.
Израильский 9й канал встретился с так называемыми “блоггерами”. Не знаю, как там в Израиле обстоят дела с блоггерами, но для первого раза видно решили, что и ЖЖ юзеры сойдут (поэтому, отчасти, всё прошло в атмосфере любви и взаимного уважения). Если я правильно понимаю, это ведь не одно и тоже? Из всех приглашённых только nicshe2003 – блоггер. То-есть человек, который регулярно пишет самостоятельные тексты о текущих событиях, или на выбранную тему. Журналист-любитель, альтернативный СМИ. Например, в моей личной ЖЖ ленте 300 “друзей”, из них блогеров, с строгом смысле слова, четверо: Валерия Новодворская (vnovodvorskaia), Лев Рубинштейн (levrub), Виталий Портников (vokintrop) и Алексей Рощин (sapojnik). Андрея Мальгина (avmalgin), пожалуй, можно назвать блоггером. У всех этих людей блоггерство как-то связано с их профессиональной деятельностью. Остальные 295 человек ведут личные дневники, более или менее читаемые и популярные. К СМИ никакого отношения не имеющие. А теперь я передаю микрофон Боре Штерну, он подведёт итоги встречи с “блоггерами”:
Exhibition Curated by Radik Shvarts. Hosted by Generation R at the JCC in Manhattan.
