About 1200 people visited the gallery of the Minshar School in south Tel Aviv on November 10, 2007. Here, for the second straight year, Bamat Etgar held the art sale known as “Bread and Roses.” The walls were filled with…
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Aduma
Anthology of Class-Conscious Poetry Editor’s note: Published in May 2007, this timely anthology has been all bought up and is now going into its second printing. The contributions, by Arab and Jewish poets in both languages, have sent new vibrations…
The Privatizing of the Israeli Mind
Poet Aharon Shabtai discusses the influence of the Occupation on Israeli culture Aharon Shabtai has published 18 books of poetry in Hebrew. His prize-winning translations of Greek drama are definitive. Two of his books have appeared in English: Love and Other…
Artists and Workers Meet in Kufr Qara
In “BREAD AND ROSES,” a September art exhibit, the participating Arab and Jewish artists contributed 75% of their sales ($24,750 of $33,000) to a project called “Women and Work.” This is jointly run by the Workers Advice Center (WAC), Sindyanna…
Flamenco in Ladino: Interview with Yasmin Levy
Please tell me about yourself. How did you come to music? I grew up in a house of singers. My father, may his memory be for a blessing, was Yitzhak Levy, a musician, composer, poet and singer. His family is…
Bread and Roses in Tel Aviv
AN EXHIBIT CALLED “Bread and Roses,” held on Saturday, September 16, 2006, at the Minshar Gallery in Tel Aviv, assembled works by 180 Jewish and Arab artists in Israel. The name derives from a famous labor struggle in 1912, when…
Art Sale for the Baqa Center
THE Baqa Center in Jaffa, a project of Hanitzotz Publishing House, has been operating for nine years. On Christmas Day 2004 it hosted one of those rare events that joins the global north with the global south, here epitomized as…
Breaking Walls
BREAKING WALLS, a documentary written and directed by Jonathan Ben Efrat, opens with a scene of deceptive tranquility. In the early morning hush, Mus’ab Salameh prepares himself for the day’s work, kisses his sleeping child and steps into the pre-dawn…
A Perfect Subject for Comedy
A Woody Allen lookalike, in his own words, is a fairly accurate description of London Jewish standup comedian Ivor Dembina, who was in Israel/Palestine this month for a tour of the chaos and for three performances of his show “It’s…
WAC Youth Perform The Old House
The Old House by Mahmoud Diab Adapted and directed by Hisham Suleiman Performed by the WAC Youth Theatre Group ON September 11 (a date that lends resonance to whatever happens on it), the Amateur Theatre Festival was held at Tzavta, a…