Culture in jerusalem

'Megillat Yerushalyim': Israeli artist Rachel Kainy is turning Jerusalem into a living scroll

Rachel Kainy documents the capital of Israel, with all its social and cultural shades and contrasts, creating the story of the city on paper scrolls – in a way, a megillah of Jerusalem.

Rachel Kainy, Road Sketch, workshop during Manofim Festival 2026.
Victory of the Rising Sun (see Friday).

Jerusalem highlights: July 10-16

Alon Rotman’s Ole, in the Here to Cheer exhibition, resonates the wave movement known to soccer crowds around the world.

Designs on Jerusalem: Hansen House hosts event devoted to everyday aesthetics around us

‘Menashe Kapra’ (see Thursday).

Jerusalem highlights: July 3-9


Here and now at Hansen House

Jerusalemites are now able to get an earful, eyeful and heartful of the real thing, as it unfolds right there before them, at Hansen House.

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen kickstarted the Unplugged in the Patio series earlier this week.

Art for all ages – and places

Lena Zaidel seems to have followed a go-with-the-flow line to the creations in her new exhibition, Homage, curated by Batsheva Dori-Carlier which opened at the Agripas 12 gallery this week.

HOMAGE TO Antoni Gaudi – Zaidel infuses her take on iconic art of the past with her own here and now. Her humor comes to the fore in much of her work.

Crafts and Design Biennale gets liftoff, at last

If you are looking to get a decent handle on the dizzying array of exhibits stretched across several interior spaces and outside spots over at the museum site, you’d better make a day of it.

ERAN LEDERMAN: ‘Sand Memories‘

I am a Jerusalemite

Jerusalem Foundation president Shai Doron is attempting to plan for the city’s long-term future once the crisis ends.

Jerusalem Foundation President Shai Doron

Coronavirus causes muted festivities over Purim

While there was still a definite Purim buzz about town in the modern city of Jerusalem on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the celebrations were somewhat subdued.

A Jewish father and his children wearing their Purim costumes, in this case, inspired by the fictional character of Superman

Adraba Books store in Jerusalem, celebrates 10 years

Adraba doesn’t try to compete with the big chain retailers, but simply features a dazzling selection of books on virtually every subject, most of which can’t be found anyplace else in Israel

ADRABA BOOKSTORE: High-brow, yet fun.

Grapevine: Busy mayor

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion was one one of the few Israelis attending the dinner that President Reuven Rivlin hosted for foreign dignitaries attending the conference on Holocaust and antisemitism.

MAYOR MOSHE LION has gifted Jerusalemites of all stripes with new places to park themselves.

Shaon Horef - Jerusalem's outdoor winter festival

The festival traditionally hosts shows, across a broad spectrum of artistic disciplines, with the February 10 batch located within the Koresh-Shushan-Shlomzion Hamalka quarter.

THE CITY comes alive, and alight.

Anime and manga take Jerusalem

The layout of the convention is largely the same every year. Past the desk and up the stairs is a wide range of merchandise vendors.

COSPLAYERS DRESSED as characters from Kingdom Hearts, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency and other franchises pose following CAMI’s cosplay contest.

JeruStock brings family-friendly Woodstock to Jerusalem

Drug-and-alcohol-free event commemorates 50th anniversary of watershed music festival

A musical Kabbat Shabbat ended the JeruStock event. ( From Right to Left) Yankele Shemesh, who was at the original Woodstock, Kalman Flax, Maury Epstein and Daniel Levin