An exhibition by artist Noam Toran at Tel Aviv’s RawArt Gallery takes us back to Arab and Jewish rail workers in 1930s Haifa and imagines an alternative to the bloody conflict between the two peoples. Instead of death and hatred,…
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Dialogue with a cactus in a cottage cheese tub
The Bread and Roses art exhibition, in its sixth year, is the result of joint efforts by the Workers Advice Center (WAC-MAAN), Sindyanna of Galilee, and Hanitzotz Publishing House, and it is generously hosted by the Minshar School of Art in Tel…
Laying the Groundwork for Change
A Review of Michael Riordon, Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine. Michael Riordon’s new book (published in Toronto by Pluto Press/Between the Lines, 2011, 242 pages) explores what a just peace between Israel and Palestine might look like…
Helena Ruegg and the Bandoneón: An underground passage from Tango to Yiddish
Bandoneón players are rare, female bandoneónists even rarer, but that is Helena Ruegg. She visited Israel and Palestine in November 2010, meeting with Jewish and Arab musicians. The Workers Advice Center, WAC-MAAN, invited her to perform, and she responded with…
When Art Breaks Walls: The Bread and Roses Exhibit of 2010
Once a year, in January, a meeting point is created between artists and farm workers. The artists are both Jewish and Arab. The workers are Arab women. The contact is made through an art exhibit called Bread and Roses, organized…
Artists and Workers against Racism: The 5th annual Bread and Roses exhibition
The Bread and Roses art exhibition opened on December 25 at the Minshar School of Art in Tel Aviv. This is the fifth year in which the Workers Advice Center (WAC) has enjoyed Minshar’s hospitality in hosting Bread and Roses. The purpose…
Ajami, the Film: Surmounting Anger and Pain
Many days have passed since I saw Ajami, the prize-bedecked film of Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. Its darkness has not left me. Death, the death in the final scene, still stares me down, still threatens. I can still hear the…
“29 km”
Dani Ben Simhon interviews Shlomit Bauman on separation and preconception within the Israel-Palestine-Germany triangle Imagine living in an area of 841 square kilometers – an area just a little bigger than Tel Aviv and its satellite towns. Imagine that you…
Bread and Roses III
Exhibit on the Backdrop of the Gaza War The Bread and Roses art sale opened its third annual exhibit on January 10, 2009, the 15th day of the Gaza War, at the initiative of the Workers Advice Center (WAC-MA’AN). The…
1948 Haunts the Haifa Art Museum
DR. RONA SELA, curator of the Haifa City Museum, is known for her public courage. As a research historian in photography, she has launched exhibits and written catalogues for museums in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Herzliya and elsewhere, as well as…