Haim Hefer is an Israeli songwriter, poet and writer.
WHEN HER son Jonathan, who with his wife Sarah volunteers at Jerusalem’s Carmei Ha’ir soup kitchen, suggested to Joanne Caras that she write a…
Israel plans to establish a national war monument in Jerusalem to honor the memory of the 22,684 soldiers and security personnel who have fallen…
SentirYasmin Levy(Adama/Eighth Note)The 33-year-old Yasmin Levy continues to wow global audiences with her "world music" tunes. She is back with…
The Kettle and the BroomCompiled and staged by Shuki WagnerHabima National TheaterSeptember 22, 2009The Broom, The Theater Club, The Kettle, LiLaLo…
Jerusalem is the subject of many prayers and psalms (and the quirky spoof: "Rak yerushalayim efes shtayim," an ode to its 02 area code). But over the…
Rehov Sasha Argov, Tel Aviv"You can hear a Sasha Argov song at 50 paces. It has a special beat, a special smooth flow... a unique blend of the Middle…
Dancing with Tears in Their Eyes(In Hebrew)By Nissan ShorAnhedonia is "an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events,"…
THE ANNUAL Storytelling Festival which traditionally takes place at the Givatayim Theater is this year celebrating its 15th anniversary with the…
If, as W.H. Auden once said, "people do not sing when they are feeling sensible," then as a country and a nation, we have never really been very…
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Such was Virgina Wolf's famous recommendation in her 1928 essay "A Room…
The Ninth Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, running from December 1-7, is once again a celebration of the best in Jewish…
THE HIGH WINDOWSHed Arzi/MeBraysheet) Forty years later, The High Windows' eponymous album is still something to celebrate. The band's three members…
Beresheet Fest prepares for ninth yearA staple of Israel's New Age music festival circuit, Succot's Beresheet is set to offer plenty of live music,…
Amazing things routinely happen to prolific writer, lyricist, and translator Dan Almagor. Like the current run of his best known play, Once Upon a…
The Israel Trail, a well-marked, wide path that opened in 1995, extends from Tel Dan in the north to Taba in the south. Two weeks ago, I wrote about…