Jerusalem highlights: November 7-14

Visit Casual Cafe (6 Hamatmid St.) and enjoy coffee from two-time silver medal winner Canopy Roasting House, which operates the coffee shop. The awards were won for their Ethiopia Yirgacheffe (south Ethiopia) blend, and Indonesia Kerinci Honey mix.

If this whets your palate, head to You Need Coffee at 78 Jaffa St. to place an order their Kenya Kirinyaga (South of Mount Kenya) blend. If you order within Jerusalem, the folks at YNC promise the blend will delivered to your home within three days.

You Need Coffee – hours: Friday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Open until 6 p.m. on other business days. Call 058-444-4359 for more. Canopy Roasting House – hours: Friday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Open until 7 p.m. on other business days. Call 050-420-0230 for more.

Visit the exhibition Neshel: Sheerit (Slough: Traces) at the Koresh 14 Gallery, which is part of the festive opening of the Ninth Biennale for Drawing in Israel.

The exhibition, curated by Tali Ben Nun, will be shown at four locations: The Jerusalem Artists’ House (Slough, 12 Shmuel Hanagid St.); Ticho House Museum (Slough, Memory Fragments, 10 Harav Agan St.); Jerusalem Print Workshop (Slough, Shells of Things Still and Living, 38 Shivtei Yisrael St.); and the Koresh 14 Gallery (Slough, Remains, the address is in the name).

Works by artists such as Galia Hili Pasternak, Meydad Eliyahu, and Ron Asulin will be shown at Slough, Remains at Koresh 14.

Yael Atzmony’s exhibition at Ticho House Museum presents the artist’s personal legacy as a daughter of a Sobibor concentration camp survivor. Sobibor was one of a handful of camps in which Jewish inmates were able to fight back against their Nazi captors. Other acts of resistance included the Treblinka revolt and the Auschwitz Sonderkommando revolt.

6:30 p.m. opening at Jerusalem Artists’ House, followed by a 7:30 p.m. opening at the other locations. Free. Visit art.org.il for more (Hebrew site). Shown until Saturday, February 7.

She openly called on haredi women not to vote for political parties in which no women were among the candidates, and hosts the podcast Spoken Haredi, in which she often discusses topics many outside haredi culture are not aware of. Patrons will be able to meet her after the screening to discuss the film.

6 p.m. Hebrew with English subtitles. NIS 35. Cinema by Sam Spiegel, 3 Menora St. Visit cinema.jsfs.co.il to book.

Enjoy a Zen Shiatsu massage treatment at the affordable price of NIS 90 at the community clinic operated by Maga (“touch”). Located in the Greek Colony and operating since 1990, this lovely oasis of calmness and health also trains therapists, should you consider a new career path.

Readers who are a little more daring might try a Chinese acupuncture session for NIS 80 (Thursday, from noon).

17 Hizkiyahu Hamelech St. For Zen Shiatsu, call Eviad at 054-449-4786. For acupuncture, call Shuki at 050-427-4416. For general information, call Shira at (02) 375 0701.

Visit the Jerusalem Theatre and enjoy a special homage to the genius of Egyptian poet Ibrahim Nagi and his famous poem “Al-Atlal” (“The Ruins”), adapted to movement by the Orly Portal Dance Company.

The poem, which later became a song, deals with the pains of love. Thanks to the brilliance of singer Umm Kulthum, the song became an instant hit due to its unique ability to achieve Tarab (“enchantment”), the fusion of audience and artists in powerful emotion unique to Arab music.

9 p.m. at 20 Marcus St. Sung in Hebrew. NIS 125. Visit orlyportal.co.il for more.

The film also reveals the respective roles of curator Alan Solomon and art dealer Leo Castelli in the plan and, in that sense, brings into focus some very uncomfortable questions about money, power, politics, and what we regard as good or even meaningful art.

In a Hebrew lecture before the screening, art critic Smadar Sheffi will discuss how the Venice Biennale works, or fails to work.

6 p.m. NIS 95. 11 Hebron Road. Call (02) 565-4333 to book.

Join the craic (“fun” in Irish) at Nocturno with The Bloomers. Uri Schleifer, Philip Khripkov, and Daniel Manor are among the finest local musicians in the area of traditional Irish music, with their own recorded version of “Step It Out, Mary,” by Sean McCarthy, and many other fine recordings.

7 Bezalel St. Doors open at 7 p.m.; show begins at 8 p.m. NIS 70. Visit nocturno.co.il/live-en/?lang=en to book.

The tour is in Hebrew, but Haftsadi speaks excellent English and can offer on-the-spot translations if needed.

Most of the tour will be focused on eating fresh challah, for which no words are needed, and Ladino songs, for which English is not required.

10:30 a.m. Meet at 88 Agrippas St. NIS 69. To register, text Haftsadi at 050-620-8086. The tour is offered by Foodish, the culinary wing of the ANU Museum.