Barry Davis

Barry Davis is an avid jazz fan and road cyclist, and vegan to boot, whose primary journalistic aim is to convey the message that there is plenty of positive, soul enriching and uplifting creative and artistic endeavor out there, should we choose to feed off it. Davis will write about anything positive, preferably apolitical, if that is at all possible in this part of the world.

‘Mikveh’ provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of surprising everyday issues faced by religious women.

Jerusalem Women's Film Festival explores trauma, healing, and hope - preview

ILLUSTRATIVE: A woman's face is pictured behind a violin.

No whining and women: This Witches? Festival returns with a salute to female musicianship

The Ardon Windows at the former National Library of Israel form the hub of the main Biennale exhibition, Or Chozer.

Jerusalem Biennale turns trauma and pain into art, healing, and hope


Getting the word out: The Israeli Institute for Hebrew Literature flies the flag in Frankfurt

Sigalit Gelfand, and the Israeli Institute for Hebrew Literature, which she serves as CEO, will be well and truly in the thick of things.

FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR: World’s largest industry event.

Not sheepish: Israel Museum reveals a different side of Menashe Kadishman’s art

As an exhibition currently on display at the Israel Museum clearly demonstrates, there was a lot more to the late, internationally renowned Israel Prize-winning artist than just funky farm animals.

MENASHE KADISHMAN’S 1975 ‘Laundry Forest’ installation outside the Israel Museum invited the public into the work.

'My Wanderings in the Gardens': Hansen House, a Jerusalem architectural and cultural gem - review

My Wanderings in the Gardens: The Legacy of Hansen House in Jerusalem is a charming, arresting, evocative, historical, information-laden portrayal of the backdrop to the architectural and cultural ge

HANSEN HOUSE in 1887 when it was still known in German as Jesus’s Help. The vineyard in the front was planted before the building was completed.

Expansive exhibition in Jaffa gives Gaza border artists a chance to air their trauma

An expansive exhibition in Jaffa gives artists from Gaza border communities a chance to air their trauma

KFAR AAZA multidisciplinary artist Shosh Segev pays tribute to the tree that saved her life on Oct. 7.

New art for a New Year: Jerusalem Artists House unveils a new set of exhibitions - review

Judging by the latest set, culture consumers can look forward to a year of quality showings across numerous styles, subgenres, and mindsets.

Ori Livne’s ethereal red-hued works draw on the past and allude to fading memory.

Giving surplus a second life, Jerusalem’s food rescuers are turning leftovers into a lifeline

The Jerusalem Food Rescuers initiative, created by Daniella Seltzer in 2019, aims to address the development of a sustainable food system and promote nutrition in Jerusalem.

Salvaged fruit & vegetables are taken to collection points all over the city.

When politics invades art, an Israeli artist seeks common ground at the Venice Biennale

Belu-Simion Fainaru, our representative at the Venice Biennale, struts his creative stuff and rolls with the anti-Israel punches.

ITALIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MATTEO SALVINI (R) took time out to visit the Israeli pavilion.

To play or not to play: A Swiss theater director comes to Israel to test the murky Wagnerian waters

Milo Rau is clearly determined to dive into the multi-layered, dense underbelly of various situations to divine the whys and wherefores and, hopefully, uncover the real state of play. 

BAYREUTH FESTIVAL HALL in Germany, built specifically for the performance of Wagner’s stage works.

Shabtai Zvi exhibition explores the false Messiah who mesmerized Jews across the world

A Jerusalem exhibition marking 400 years since Shabtai Zvi's birth explores how the false messiah captivated much of the Jewish world and why his legacy continues to fascinate.

Excerpt from Shabtai Zvi Drawing Series, from the early 1930s, by Jewish German expressionist artist Rosy Lilienfeld, murdered in Auschwitz in 1942.

A toast to life: Israeli whisky raises the bar as a young industry comes of age

Whisky Live returns to Tel Aviv for its 12th edition, bringing Israeli and Scottish distillers together for tastings, workshops and a look at Israel's growing whisky industry.

A QUALITY SWIG or two, in good company, can bring joy and ease to life’s challenges.