Jerusalem culture

Taking to the air: The fourth Fluorescent – Vertigo Jerusalem festival

The forthcoming festival is officially the third full-blown edition, although it was preceded by a smaller water-testing debut with no thoughts of the future.

A Vertigo workshop presents excerpts from Mana and Leela.
LEFT: Esther Ofarim (see Monday). RIGHT: Gergely Madaras (see  Sunday).

Jerusalem highlights: November 6 – November 12

Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra (see Sunday).

Jerusalem highlights: October 30-November 5

‘Tangles’ still frame, based on Sarah Leavitt’s graphic novel (see Tuesday).

Jerusalem highlights: October 9 – October 15


Jerusalem becomes the City of Light

For the tenth year in a row, the Light Festival in Jerusalem is shining through the Old City and nearby Jaffa Street every night (except Friday night) until July 5th.

Jerusalem market at night

‘The Last Band in Lebanon’ to get US remake

The original film, produced by the Ederys, was a screwball comedy about three IDF reservists in the army band who wake up in Lebanon one morning.

Last band in Lebanon movie poster 2018

Flying in the darkness

“We were all affected; we all lost roots or branches of our family trees. Nobody came out of that untouched. But out of the ashes of the Holocaust, we have our state."

Child actors in J-Town Playhouse’s ‘I Never Saw Another Butterfly’

War, friendship and revenge

The mask is the message in 'See You Up There.'

A scene from the film ‘See You Up There’

Three ladies, three lattes: The gift of life

Three Ladies, Three Lattes looks at percolating issues in Israel’s complicated social and religious fabric. Secular Pam, modern Orthodox Tzippi and haredi Danit answer your questions.

 Organ donation (Illustrative)

This week in Jerusalem: Halachic pastry

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

Pastries from an introductory pastry confectionary course offered to young Haredi women by MATI – the Jerusalem Business Development Center and a local pastry shop

Jerusalem Music Academy Menotti Operas Beit Mazia

Two genres of Menotti’s operas – comic and serious, almost tragic, The Old Maid and the Thief and The Medium – were performed by the Jerusalem Music Academy.

The Israel Opera

Seeking change

This week, in our continuing series of profiles of potential mayoral candidates, we talk to attorney Yossi Havilio

Yossi Havilio

The Lounge: December 5, 2017

The latest social news from Israeli life.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (left) and Nir Barkat.

Concert Review: Jerusalem Jazz Festival

Once again, artistic director and internationally acclaimed trumpeter Avishai Cohen put together a diverse range of acts.

SLIDE TRUMPETER Steven Bernstein from the Sexmob band.