Arts & Culture

Etgar Keret’s “The Seven Good Years”: Part I

“The Seven Good Years” is Etgar Keret’s memoir about the seven years between the birth of his son and the death of his father.

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Zeruya Shalev’s teddy bear wars

“His small, perpetually dirty hands with their closely-clipped nails fumble… but then he grabs one of the stuffed animals and hurls it at me.”

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We’re All Going on a Summer Hofesh

It’s summertime and everybody is going somewhere for hofesh, holiday. That being the case, lets go over vacation-related terminology in Hebrew.

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Scorched by the Sun

“I sit at the entrance of the labyrinth / in which my country has vanished. / I don’t know why my country is lost / or what I should do to reclaim it.”

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The very first woman of the wall

Bonna Devora Haberman, a scholar, writer, and playwright, shared the story of the birth of the Women of the Wall with host Rogel Alpher. Bonna passed away this week.

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Yeled, Who Are You Kidding?

‘Yeled’ – ‘child’ – comes from the root ‘y.l.d’ – י.ל.ד – which has made a huge career for itself in Semitic languages.

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Landscape Orientalism: Early photography in the Holy Land

Dr. Edna Barromi Perlman talks about the landscape photography in Israel and how it became an effective political and ideological tool.

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In Nepal, when you can’t trust the ground beneath your feet

A month after Nepal’s most destructive earthquake, Shoshi Shmuluvitz went to Kathmandu and the remote Ramechhap district with an Israeli NGO.

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