Culture in jerusalem

Jerusalem highlights: November 13-19

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

Home of Maud Lewis (see Thursday).
TERENCE WINTER.

Sopranos’ Terence Winter to join in Israeli TV festival Jerusalem Sessions

A Vertigo workshop presents excerpts from Mana and Leela.

Taking to the air: The fourth Fluorescent – Vertigo Jerusalem festival

To celebrate the launch of a new artists’ community dedicated to olim, Jerusalemites showed their enthusiastic support at the exhibition venue,  the Greater Baka Community Center (Minhal Kehilati Baka Rabati).

The women opening doors into Jerusalem’s art world: Three orgs. helping immigrant artists


Jerusalem Highlights July 12 - July 18

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 ALMA BAND at the Yellow Submarine offers a blend of indie music and faith-oriented lyrics. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.

Jerusalem Highlights June 14 – June 20

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 ASAF AVIDAN hits Jerusalem on his Ichnology tour (see Monday).

Jerusalem Highlights MAY 31 – JUNE 6

Editor’s note: Due to the current security situation, events listed below may be postponed or canceled. Check before booking, and stay safe.

 HOUDINI and Jennie the Vanishing Elephant, 1918 (see Tuesday).

This year’s Musrara art event in Jerusalem explores how we perceive time

Jerusalem's annual Musrara Mix is one of the biggest art events in the country.

 BASS CLARINETIST, composer, and sound designer Yoni Silver.

Bringing Israelite coals back home through Mawal Baladi Festival

The Mawal Baladi Festival was intially put on hold for a while due to the war, but a decision was made to go ahead with the four-day event, which will now take place December 26-29.

 ACCLAIMED VIOLINIST and conductor Werner Ehrhardt will join Yair Dalal in the opening concert.

To stay or not to stay: Jewish Festival of Performing Arts presents ‘Vienna or Dimona’

There are clearly some heavy-duty issues worked into the fabric of the play, but a healthy dosage of comedic material helps the philosophical medicine go down.

 A SCENE from ‘Vienna or Dimona’ by Yaniv Peretz

Summer Loving at the Jerusalem Cinematheque

The Summer Loving program at the Jerusalem Cinematheque offers an escape from the high tensions and temperatures in Israel.

 ‘The Model and the Marriage Broker.’

Second season of ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ will hit Netflix July 14

The historical drama focuses on three generations of the Sephardic Ladino-speaking family and their travails as they contend with violence and in their hometown of Jerusalem.

SWELL ARIEL OR and Israel Ogalbo star in ‘The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem.’

Boycotting municipal elections harms Arab Jerusalemites - editorial

Jerusalem’s Arab residents should reject calls for yet another pointless boycott of the municipal elections and participate actively in the democratic process.

 Arabs in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Israeli civic society is our 'north star,' Blinken tells grassroot organizers

Blinken sat down with leaders of grassroots organizations at the Israeli-Palestinian arts center Feel Beit, a cross point between Jerusalem's Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken US ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides meet with Israeli emerging leaders at "Feel Beit", an Israeli-Palestinian art and culture collective in Jerusalem, January 31, 2023.