Runs Monday through next Thursday, 44 King George Avenue, Jerusalem, www.bac.org.il 4. MIXED BAGELUL EDUCATIONGear up for the High Holy Day season with The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, which is currently running its Elul program.Highlights include special evening classes with Menahem Leibtag, as well as first night slihot. There is also a wide range of interesting weekly morning courses. The program runs until October 6. In English.Pardes, 29 Pierre Koenig Street, Jerusalem, (02) 673- 5210 or www.pardes.org.il 5. CLASS IN A GLASS Wine typically conjures up images of high culture and sophistication – which makes a museum the perfect venue for a wine fair.On Wednesday and next Thursday, Israel’s wineries – both boutique and mainstream – will set up shop in the garden of Tel Aviv’s Eretz Israel Museum. The fair, run in conjunction with Wine, Gourmet and Alcohol magazine, will show off hundreds of locally produced wines, including some new ones.Alongside the wine offerings will be a gourmet set-up with fancy cheeses, sushi, olive oil, chocolate and more. Entrance is NIS 59.6 p.m.- 11 p.m., 2 Haim Levanon Street, Ramat Aviv, www.winet.co.il
8. IT’S ALL IN THE FOLD Keep those scissors at bay as origami expert Paul Jackson explores how generic techniques of folding paper can be adapted for use by designers and artists not only on paper but with other sheet materials such as fabric, plastic and metal. Jackson’s folded artworks have been exhibited around the world. With his wife, origami artist Miri Golan, Jackson has helped establish “origametria” as a method for teaching curriculum geometry through the teaching of origami. NIS 60.Tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea, www.wilfrid.org.il or (04) 989-9566.9. BALLET FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVEFor more than 30 years, choreographer Boris Eifman has led his company from spotlight to spotlight around the world.His St. Petersburg-based troupe is the most successful contemporary ballet company in Russia. The union of Eifman’s dark, angst-driven choreography with his cast of technically brilliant artists has thrilled ballet lovers from Tokyo to New York. This week, the Boris Eifman Ballet will make its 11th trip to Tel Aviv in 12 years. The company will present two works: Onegin and a new interpretation of an old work, entitled I, Don Quixote.Runs Monday through September 24, TAPAC, visit www.israel-opera.co.il.10. UPCOMING FESTIVAL DESERT PHAZEThe Isrotel hotel chain management and the Batsheva Dance Company have once again decided to stage the Isrotel Phaza Morgana Festival in Timna Park in the Negev. Highlights include a special performance entitled Panorama, created by Batsheva Dance Company house choreographer Ohad Naharin, as well as a performance by international artist Rafael Amargo.In addition, there will be a special production of Idan Raichel’s Within My Walls.Runs next Thursday through till September 25, www.phazamorgana.com