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


Grapevine: Busy mayor

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion was one one of the few Israelis attending the dinner that President Reuven Rivlin hosted for foreign dignitaries attending the conference on Holocaust and antisemitism.

MAYOR MOSHE LION has gifted Jerusalemites of all stripes with new places to park themselves.

Shaon Horef - Jerusalem's outdoor winter festival

The festival traditionally hosts shows, across a broad spectrum of artistic disciplines, with the February 10 batch located within the Koresh-Shushan-Shlomzion Hamalka quarter.

THE CITY comes alive, and alight.

Anime and manga take Jerusalem

The layout of the convention is largely the same every year. Past the desk and up the stairs is a wide range of merchandise vendors.

COSPLAYERS DRESSED as characters from Kingdom Hearts, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency and other franchises pose following CAMI’s cosplay contest.

JeruStock brings family-friendly Woodstock to Jerusalem

Drug-and-alcohol-free event commemorates 50th anniversary of watershed music festival

A musical Kabbat Shabbat ended the JeruStock event. ( From Right to Left) Yankele Shemesh, who was at the original Woodstock, Kalman Flax, Maury Epstein and Daniel Levin

Sam Spiegel Film School names new director

Director Dana Blankstein-Cohen has been unanimously appointed as the new head of Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School.

Dana Blankstein-Cohen

Top Jerusalem official shuts down Shabbat music concert - without consent

A source close to the orchestra said the company received a call three hours before the festival began, leaving no time to prepare or inform people of an alternative.

THE JERUSALEM Baroque Orchestra, under Latvianborn Jerusalemite conductor David Shemer (right), will anchor the Vocal Fantasy Festival.

Grapevine: Uncertain election

WITH AN unprecedented second Knesset election within a six-month period coming up in less than two months, it is understandable that the subject is a hot topic.

David Horovitz, founding editor of The Times of Israel, edited The Jerusalem Post from 2004 to 2001

The Museum on the Seam deconstructs Jerusalem through self-portraits

Facing up to Jerusalem

EFRAT SHVILY uses her Jerusalemites video work to gain a better understanding of her own perspective.

Overall – All over the city

“One of the things that unites and characterizes Jerusalem is the blend of old and new, ancient and modern,” says Sarit Goldstein.

ET CASIART head coverings

Revealing the funny side of the ‘Mossad’

“Everyone in Israel wants to do dramas,” said Gur Arye. “So I wanted to do spoofs, parodies. And I wanted to spoof something very Israeli.”

TSAHI HALEVI and Tal Friedman in ‘Mossad.’