Stories republished from Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record.
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The Schmooze Where Art Meets the Sea
Crossposted from Haaretz A makeshift artists colony arose last week on Bat Yam’s main beach, between the concrete skeleton of an abandoned hotel and a plastic playground. Over the next month it will host artists in various media as well as musicians from Israel and abroad. The guests will stay in temporary structures, reminiscent of…
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The Schmooze The Future of Israeli Design
Crossposted from Haaretz What could possibly be done that is new at an exhibition of works of graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design visual communications department — especially after the successful exhibition curated last year by Yael Burstein in the same space? On the surface there is nothing revolutionary about what the…
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The Schmooze Gilberto Gil’s Party in the Park
Crossposted from Haaretz One of Gilberto Gil’s first hits is called “Domingo no Parque” — Sunday in the park. Gil sang it in 1967 during a televised music festival with the fabulous Os Mutantes, and although another song won first place, “Domingo no Parque” launched the Brazilian’s career and became the signature tune of Tropicalia,…
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The Schmooze Paul Simon Wows Crowd in Tel Aviv
Crossposted from Haaretz It didn’t matter where you sat, stood or danced at Thursday night’s Paul Simon concert in Tel Aviv, the music swirled around you and swept you up. For such a large venue, there was an intimacy normally associated with club gigs, which emanated directly from the artist and extended right to the…
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The Schmooze Jazz for Thinking People
Crossposted from Haaretz Jonathan Greenstein is a young saxophone player who lives and performs in Tel Aviv. His debut album “Thinking,” on the Spanish label Fresh Sound, takes him elegantly from the category of promising jazz musician to that of jazz musician who is keeping his promise, and it’s a pleasure to be an ear…
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Opinion Demography as Destiny: Israel’s Growing Right Shapes Law, Military
The increasingly progressive Atlantic Monthly correspondent and former Forward staffer Jeffrey Goldberg (for the last time, no, we’re not the same person) posted a link on his blog Tuesday to an online essay — which he called “hard to disagree with” — by senior research fellow Hussein Ibish of the American Task Force on Palestine….
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The Schmooze Sayed Kashua and Omri Herzog Win Bernstein Literary Prize
Crossposted from Haaretz Author Sayed Kashua and literary critic Dr. Omri Herzog are the winners of the Bernstein Prize for 2011. Kashua received the NIS 50,000 prize for an original novel in Hebrew for “Second Person Singular” (Keter Books). He writes a weekly column in Haaretz Magazine. Herzog was awarded the NIS 15,000 prize for…
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The Schmooze Yehuda Poliker’s Promising Mix of Beat and Sadness
Crossposted from Haaretz Yehuda Poliker sang his new song, “Fuma, fuma,” not once, but twice at his concert in Caesarea last Thursday. The first time, toward the middle of the concert, the attention focused on the image of the small Romanian (“half a raisin”) that Poliker meets in south Tel Aviv, the person who offers…
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