Editor’s note: Due to the ongoing security situation, events listed below may be postponed or canceled. Check before booking, and stay safe.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29
Join tour guide Itamar Farhi at the Montefiore Windmill in Mishkenot Sha’ananim and follow the illustrious dead of Jerusalem in a Hebrew-haunted walk. Patrons will seek a lost heart, meet a famous ghost, and even descend to hell.
10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. (tour concludes at IDF Square). NIS 40. Easy walking. No loudspeakers will be used during the tour. Arrive 15 minutes before the tour begins. To book, call 054-559-7833 or email mritamar69@gmail.com.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30
Have a monster’s jam at Hamiflezet pub, one of the few community pubs in Jerusalem that allow you to hop on the stage and play your fiddle (if you have one).
8 p.m. at 8 Chile St.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 31
Visit the Jerusalem Cinematheque and watch the 1955 American film classic Rebel Without a Cause. Directed by Nicholas Ray, this film cemented the iconic status of James Dean, who became the idol of many teenagers around the world. One was the future Israeli actor Ze’ev Revach, who told his high school sweetheart that he looked “just like” James Dean.
6:30 p.m. at 11 Hebron Rd. NIS 43. Call (02) 565-4333 to book. Part of the Films for English Speakers series.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
Enjoy community Mondays at Cafe Kedem, a pleasant spot that offers a free cup of iced coffee during the hot summer days to those who sign up for its online community option. Children might enjoy the toast and tropit (sweet juice) option for NIS 20.
8 Esther Raziel St., Har Homa. Sunday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Call Chava at 054-715-0690 to learn more about the community option.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
Join film director Omri Dekel-Kadosh and watch the 1997 Iranian film Taste of Cherry. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, this is one of the selected films in the Persian Films Club led by Dekel-Kadosh.
This deeply dark and funny film is about a man who wants to end his life and looks for a person to bury him in the grave he already dug.
Before the screening, Dekel-Kadosh will discuss why Iranian movies became all the rage in the 1990s (in Hebrew).
8 p.m. Persian, with Hebrew subtitles. NIS 35. 3 Menora St. Visit cinema.jsfs.co.il for more information.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Enjoy a spot of tea at the Kumkum tea house. Offering a kosher British afternoon tea experience, replete with scones and sandwiches, this colorful little nook is now showing a selection of paintings by Helena Smirnov-Trezken.
23 Derech Beit Lehem. Sunday to Thursday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
Longtime readers might recall the great doyen of English poetry in Israel, Robert Friend. Until his death in 1998, Friend translated some of the better-known Hebrew poets into English and became known as “The poet of Jabotinsky Street,” alluding to his Jerusalem address.
His love of Jerusalem is now given an artistic homage in Poems as Invitations. Artists Meydad Eliyahu and Sara Benninga were invited by curator Lonnie Monka to offer visual expressions to poems written by Friend, Shirley Kaufman, and Dennis Silk, who wrote the column “Poets Cornered” in The Jerusalem Post and lived in Abu Tor.
Yehuda Amichai, one of the best-known Israeli poets in recent times, admired Silk and likened him to “our bank, in which we deposited all we had in our heart.”
7 p.m. opening. The Biennale Gallery. 161 Jaffa St. Free.
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