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by Helen Schary Motro
Helen highly recommends the exhibition at the Israel
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Museum - Dress Codes: Revealing the Jewish Wardrobe. The fascinating exhibition reveals how local habitat strongly influenced Jewish wardrobes. Most of the clothes come from communities from Egypt and Tunisia on the west to Iran and India on the east whereas few garments from Nazi occupied Europe survived the Holocaust.
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by Anton Felton
An important element of Jewish history, ORT, the Organization
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for Rehabilitation through Training, is a splendid Jewish charity that includes carpet weaving. More than 100,000 people in Israel alone owe their skills, trades and vocations to ORT. This article details the different intricacies of three special rugs that incorporate Jewish cultural forms.
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by Nelly Perry
Maestro Gil Shohat once again treated his audience
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to a wonderful, memorable
evening in Herzliya Pituach, delighting everyone with his music and explanations.
Also much enjoyed was the tasty buffet and accompanying wine. This project
facilitates the raising of much needed funds for the Hand In Hand Food Pantry, one of ESRA'S projects.
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
Readers are invited to the opening of Anat Agami's
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second exhibition at the Agam Gallery in Raanana. It will take place on Saturday, August 16 at 20:30.
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by Helen Schary Motro
With Last Stop, Shula Spiegel Productions and Dana
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Eden have produced an Israeli film masterpiece. The "new" Tel-Aviv central bus station is used as a metaphor for describing Tel-Aviv's underbelly and presents a disturbing picture of a city in transition
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by Michael Lipiner
Michael higly recommends Wes Anderson’s newest film,
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The Grand Budapest Hotel. He feels it is perhaps his best and most interesting work filled with fascinating, likeable, and delightedly despicable characters played by the filmmaker’s usual regulars.
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
Steffa Reis will be showing a group of works with the
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title “Abstracts – Old and New” at the Seven Stars Gallery in Herzliya Pituach
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by Honey Stollman
Barbara Blum once again gave a fascinating lecture
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about about the unique nature of the violin, and more about the Master violinist, Isaac Stern
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by Inge David
The sadness felt by subscribers to the Herzliya Chamber
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Orchestra when its conductor/music director Harvey Bordowitz stepped down soon dissipated when attending an excellent series of music lectures given by Harvey at a venue in Ra'anana. The lectures included gossip, anecdotes, tales of prima donnas and more. Hopefully there will be more of these excellent lectures in the near future.
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by Michael Lipiner
The Science Fiction film “Her” won the Oscar this
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years Oscar for the Best Original Screenplay. How much does technology play in our lives? The hero Theodore develops a warm relationship with the female he downloads in a new operating system but "Her" expertly shows us that nothing can equal human and physical interaction.
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by Michael Lipiner
Michael Lipiner highly recommends Steve McQueen’s
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third film, 12 Years A Slave (2013), which he feels is the definitive film about slavery in America.
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