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The Schmooze Justin Bieber Will Meet With Bibi in Israel
The Bieber has landed. After months of hysterical anticipation among Israel’s tween girls, the Canadian pop star has arrived in Israel, where he will perform Thursday in Tel Aviv – and, it turns out, meet with Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister’s office, sounding somewhat defensive, has let it be known that the singer and his…
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The Schmooze A Tenor for the People
Crossposted from Haaretz Without any fanfare or festivities, modestly and almost anonymously, Christoph Pregardien — one of the greatest lyric tenors of our time — landed in Israel a few days ago. It is hard to imagine a more impressive career than his: The greatest conductors conduct him, and he is hosted by the top…
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The Schmooze Power Company to the People
Crossposted from Haaretz Legendary city engineer Yitzhak Ben Sira planned Tel Aviv’s Yad Eliyahu area to be a neighborhood of public housing with an industrial area at its northern edge. Beginning at the end of the 1940s, high-quality housing projects were constructed alongside public buildings, including arts and recreation centers. Some of them, like the…
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The Schmooze Rappaport Prize Awarded to Artists Asaf Ben Zvi and Michael Halak
Crossposted from Haaretz The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced the selection of painters Asaf Ben Zvi and Michael Halak as the winners of the 2011 Rappaport Prize. This is the sixth prize awarded since its establishment in 2006 in honor of Ruth and Baruch Rappaport. The prize is awarded annually to two painters, an…
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Food From Schnitzel to Gourmet Markets, Seeking Out the Best Food in Tel Aviv
Vibrant Tel Aviv manages to pack in the energy of New York, the leisurely pace of Florence, and a Mediterranean climate to boot. While the political and religious soul of Israel may lie in Jerusalem, the youth and vigor can be found in rowdy yet cultured Tel Aviv. The city is home to numerous galleries…
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The Schmooze Tel Aviv School No ‘Stranger’ to the Oscars
The crowded hallways of the Bialik-Rogozin school in gritty South Tel Aviv are about as far from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood as one can imagine. But on the evening of the 83rd Academy Awards on February 27, the school’s principal, Keren Tal, will make the transition from those hallways to the red carpet,…
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The Schmooze Coen Brothers To Receive Tel Aviv University Prize
Crossposted from Haaretz Joel and Ethan Coen, the Oscar award-winning producer-director team that created films like “The Big Lebowski” and “A Serious Man” have been announced as the recipients of a million dollar prize from Tel Aviv University, to be granted in May. The Dan David Prize is named for the businessman and philanthropist and…
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Food Farmers’ Markets Take Hold in the Holy Land
Three years ago, the idea of a farmers’ market was completely alien to Israel. Certainly, most Israelis understand the idea of buying produce in an open-air stall, Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda turns 100 this year and Tel Aviv’s Shuk HaCarmel is only ten years younger. But buying in the shuk instead of the supermarket is no…
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