Culture in jerusalem

Jerusalem Women's Film Festival explores trauma, healing, and hope - preview

Notwithstanding the heavy subject matter of many of the films, Jerusalem Women’s Film Festival attendees are expected to come away from the festival in a buoyant, hopeful frame of mind.

‘Mikveh’ provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of surprising everyday issues faced by religious women.
ILLUSTRATIVE: A woman's face is pictured behind a violin.

No whining and women: This Witches? Festival returns with a salute to female musicianship

‘Tangles’ still frame, based on Sarah Leavitt’s graphic novel (see Tuesday).

Jerusalem highlights: October 9 – October 15

‘Reflexion I’ (see Friday).

Jerusalem highlights: September 4-10


New discovery in Jerusalem's City of David: 2,000-year-old pilgrimage road

The City of David has already changed Jerusalem. A new discovery there opening soon will change the way Jews connect with their past in a way never seen before.

ON THE road: ‘To understand Jerusalem, you need to stand here.’

Jerusalem Light Festival

The festival, which has already begun and will continue until July 4, is a celebration of spreading the light, overcoming obstacles and bringing people together.

Jerusalem Light Festival

Grapevine: Early celebration

MOST PEOPLE prefer to celebrate their birthdays later rather sooner. Few want to be older than they are.

YEHORAM GAON

Did you know...

...how Jerusalem remembers 9/11?

THE 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza, a cenotaph located on a hill in the Ramot neighborhood.

Corridors of Power: Name dropping

In recent years, the municipality has been increasing funding and investment in east Jerusalem neighborhoods. The upgrading project includes standardizing street names there.

AN 1891 photo shows houses built by the Ezrat Niddachim charitable organization in Silwan for poor Yemenite Jews in the 1880s.

This week in Jerusalem: Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

As the plan to drastically transform the entrance of the city moves into its next stage of implementation, prepare for significant impact on incoming and outgoing traffic.

FROM THE ‘human tapestry’ that is ‘Nine Measures’: ‘Office,’ inkjet print, 1983.

Shakespeare in the balance

The core of the play’s story line centers on a British monarch who misses a trick or two when looking to bequeath his rule to his offspring.

‘WHY SONGS of Lear?’ ‘I am really Shakespeare’s son, lover, believer, devotee...’

Clowning about… seriously

Swiss performer Martin Zimmermann blurs the lines between the inanimate and the living in ‘Hallo’

Martin Zimmermann

Pop-up performance party

FestiVan will take music, dance and poetry to Jerusalem’s streets.

KAMA KAMILA.

GRAPEVINE: Beyond the bonfires

Movers and shakers, how Israeli people shape the places of this country.

US Ambassador David Friedman [C] Rabbi Israel Meir Lau [L] and Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog [R].