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


Summer Loving at the Jerusalem Cinematheque

The Summer Loving program at the Jerusalem Cinematheque offers an escape from the high tensions and temperatures in Israel.

 ‘The Model and the Marriage Broker.’

Second season of ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ will hit Netflix July 14

The historical drama focuses on three generations of the Sephardic Ladino-speaking family and their travails as they contend with violence and in their hometown of Jerusalem.

SWELL ARIEL OR and Israel Ogalbo star in ‘The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem.’

Boycotting municipal elections harms Arab Jerusalemites - editorial

Jerusalem’s Arab residents should reject calls for yet another pointless boycott of the municipal elections and participate actively in the democratic process.

 Arabs in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Israeli civic society is our 'north star,' Blinken tells grassroot organizers

Blinken sat down with leaders of grassroots organizations at the Israeli-Palestinian arts center Feel Beit, a cross point between Jerusalem's Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken US ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides meet with Israeli emerging leaders at "Feel Beit", an Israeli-Palestinian art and culture collective in Jerusalem, January 31, 2023.

Budding reflections: Maureen Fain sheds light and plenty of color on our lives

The multi-hued petal spread comes courtesy of Maureen Fain, a longtime Jerusalem-resident South African-born artist with the creative means and skills to impart it palpably to the public.

 FADED BOUGAINVILLEA.

The International Jerusalem Puppet Festival returns for 2022

The alfresco curtain-raiser takes place in Liberty Bell Park, which is home to the new expansive and well-appointed Train Theater premises.

 IRIS DOMANY’S ‘Louisa’ invites 4- to 8-year-olds to take a closer look at the minutiae in her studio.

Jerusalem Arts Festival: Anat Malamud brings new ‘Le’ehov Oti’ show

The festival kicks off with a bang, at Beit Ha’am with the Protest Song show with a stellar lineup that features the likes of Karolina, Eran Tzur, Elisha Banai and Alma Zohar

 SINGER-SONGWRITER Anat Malamud attaches great importance to her songs’ lyrics.

New play exploring the lives of Soviet Jews opens in Jerusalem

Set in 1972 Moscow, Whisper Freedom tells the story of Elena Ivanova, a Moscow stage star who painstakingly conceals her Jewish identity.

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This week in Jerusalem: Keep up the good work

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 WITH 11,000 employees, the Jerusalem Municipality is the capital’s beating heart.

Grapevine: Cantor in chief

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on 2/3/2022.