Singing and Music in Serbian, Greek and Ladino. Betty Klien will sing and play the guitar and accordian, and Marina Tushitz will play the flute and the oud.


All shows will be in the "Metunah" auditorium
Advanced registration Required: 35/40/45 Shekel
Call 02-6252357- Sergei Courtyard, Heleni Hamalka Street 13

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Annual Cantorial Concert in the Citadel - Between Liturgy and Opera

Price per Event: 80 NIS - adult. Senior / Student - 65 NIS
Advanced registration is required at the museum reservation center: 02-6265333.

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Collective Sculpture Exhibition featuring Sculpture works by Palestinian sculptors.
opening reception at alHoash Gallery, Thursday 17 June 2010 at 19:00 pm.
the Exhibition Runs through 31 July 2010

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Natasha Kuznetsova’s exhibition includes two series of drawings. In the series “Dwarfs”, the artist seeks to transform her subjects into an allegory of the human condition, suggesting we are all dwarfs in a pressure chamber. Her dwarfs are portrayed in a manner that depicts them as neither grotesque nor tragic and marginal, but rather as having made peace with themselves and found their role in society.
In her second series, "Once Upon a Time", Kuznetsova addresses the apocalyptic. In both series, her subjects emerge from her personal and associative world accompanied by a tragic-comic perspective. Her work is characterized by a lack of pathos and a carefree approach to complex topics, also evocative of art history. The ideas her work is based on, are reduced to the point that they appear flat and placard-like, her subjects resembling comic book superheroes, stressing the opposition between profound philosophical content and her light and uninhibited style. The result is tragic-comic – both humor and hope are merged together.

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The British Council in partnership with Filistin Ashabab; Jeel publishing and Wataniya Mobile Company; will be touring the exhibition “Palestine through the Eyes of Young Artists” in different cities during the year 2010. The exhibition is part of the British Council’s work in arts in Palestine and together with Filistin Ashabab we invited more than twenty Palestinian artists living in Palestine and the Diaspora; to participate in this project to draw their own impressions about Palestinian cities. The outcome of their works is an exhibition touring different Palestinian cities in 2010 in cooperation with a number of cultural and academic partners in Palestine.

The exhibition attempts to establish and enhance the relationship between society and Art, and at the same time the society and the place. We also aim to explore the places through the artworks and discover not only cities, streets, alleys, buildings, and windows but also dreams, imagination, love, and memories through which we can experience the essence of the place.

A number of wrap-around activities will be organised for university and school students around the theme of “Place: City/Village/Camp”.

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Opening:
Tuesday 1 June at 19:00
Introduction:
Karl Martin Schröter, Cultural Attaché of the German Embassy in Tel Aviv

German / English
Entrance free
+972 2 5610627
info@jerusalem.goethe.org

Opening hours:
Monday - Thursday 10:00 -18:00
Friday: 9:00 - Midday

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Magic permeates our daily (Jewish) lives to such a degree that life without magic is close to impossible. An interesting fact is that most individuals are unaware that many items in their daily life and many daily actions and beliefs are magical in nature. Examples of this are endless: knocking on wood, tfu tfu tfu, Evil Eye (בלי עין הרע), not naming a child before birth, the amuletic power of the mezuzah, red ribbon bracelet, khamsas, jinxes… These and many more practices have ancient sources. Some have lost their meaning even though they are still used, for example, the magical formula ABRACADABRA, has its roots in the 3rd century CE, and is continuously used even today.

In this exhibition we examine the origins and development of magic in Judaism from the First Temple period to the present day by focusing on beliefs, customs and, particularly, the practical use of magic objects in daily Jewish life.

Belief that the world was filled with supernatural beings and forces such as angels, demons, spirits and the evil eye was common in the ancient world and, indeed, many people today hold to that conviction. These forces were attributed with many powers and were thought to be responsible for many of the good, but especially the bad things occurring to people on a daily basis. It was (and is) generally believed that such forces can be coerced into acting on behalf of the applicant. Depending on whether the goal of this coercion was for evil or good, we can distinguish between witchcraft (black magic) and magic (protective magic, or white magic).

Biblical laws strictly forbid the Jewish people from having anything to do with witchcraft (black magic):

"You shall not allow a sorceress to live". (Exodus 22:17)

“There must not be found among you anyone that … uses divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer". (Deuteronomy 18:10-11)

However, (white) magic - i.e. defense against the dark arts, the forces of evil and the damage they cause - was not forbidden in Judaism. This is clear both from biblical and rabbinical writings and from many of the preserved.

The exhibition is enhanced by artifacts on loan from the Golan Archaeological Museum, The Institute of Archaeology of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Israel Antiquities Authority and private collectors.

The exhibition is accompanied by a full color catalog made possible by the support of the American Friends of the BLMJ, the British Friends of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem; the Lands of the Bible Archaeology Foundation, Toronto, Canada; the Israel Minister of Education and the Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport.

Sun., Mon., Tues., Thurs. 9:30 - 17:30
Weds. 9:30 - 21:30
Fri. & Holiday Eves. 9:30 - 14:00
Sat. and Holidays - closed

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