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The Schmooze Keeping Up With the Techies
Crossposted from Haaretz Singer Avigail Roz has spent many hours with Yoni Bloch, who produced her albums “Milchama Yomyomit” (“Daily War”), which was released three years ago, and “Hetzi Nehama” (“Half a Consolation”), forthcoming at the end of the month. But when it comes to technology, they are on opposite sides of the barricades. While…
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The Schmooze House-Trained Labrador for Sale on MySpace
Crossposted from Haaretz The story of “Labrador Labratories” (sic) should be taught in workshops for developing creativity. A year and a half ago, after the unknown Makolet band broke up, soloist Tom Gottlieb found himself suffering from a creative block. “In Makolet there was a very critical atmosphere,” he says. “We would sit a lot…
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The Schmooze Is an Abandoned Jerusalem Villa Better Off as a Fringe Theater?
Crossposted from Haaretz A few weeks from now, a new fringe theater center is slated to become home to a number of experimental groups now working in temporary spaces around the Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Theater Group, Psik and Incubator (the local branch of the Nisan Nativ Studio), will all use the new space. The center…
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The Schmooze Dancing To the Same Beat
Crossposted from Haaretz The young Maria Kong dance troupe shines in its professional production of “Miss Brazil.” It is unlike other independent dance groups, and seems more like an offshoot of the Bat Sheva Dance Company, with the same style of movement and high quality but without Ohad Naharin’s choreography. This is Maria Kong’s second…
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The Schmooze A Living Museum in Nahariya
Crossposted from Haaretz Near the door of Andreas Meyer’s home in Kfar Vradim hangs an old photograph of trees alongside a stream, Nahal Ga’aton, which cuts through the city of Nahariya. Opposite is a photo, from 1908, of Meyer’s grandfather and two uncles. Both images serve as a window into 90-year-old Meyer’s life and home,…
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The Schmooze Movement for Equality
Crossposted from Haaretz On the pale parquet floor of the Rabeah Murkus Dance Studio in Kfar Yassif a few students are warming up to a backdrop of purple walls and a decorated Christmas tree. After Murkus hustles the last of the lingerers in the dressing room, samba music starts coming through the loudspeakers and the…
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The Schmooze Painting in the Margins of German Society
Crossposted from Haaretz Whether it’s Malevich’s black or white square, the figure of the collector, the cardinal or the church that appears in Norbert Schwontkowski’s paintings, central to the work will be an existential question about life and death. It reflects the basic lack of trust and faith that he experienced as a boy growing…
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The Schmooze A Visionary From Heel to Toe
Crossposted from Haaretz For Yotam Raz-Friedman, 21, shoe design is intuitive. He began to acquire his skills at age 12 in Haifa. He would take apart his family’s shoes and put them back together again, and he diligently studied shoemakers at work. At 16, he had already customized sneakers for clients. Two years later, he…
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