Art does not have any particular need for buildings. The buildings need it.
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The Ashkenazi rabbi who devoted his career to Israel's Ethiopian Jews
Rabbi Chananya Blumert has devoted himself to the Ethiopian community for 20 years. He speaks Amharic, has an Ethiopian wife and commands the respect of the Ethiopian kesim (priests). However, some question whether a white Ashkenazi is really the best person to honor the traditions of the Beta Israel, and whether his appointment as their rabbi in Bat Yam is symbolic of attempts to homogenize Judaism.
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The last laugh
He has tens of thousands of loyal followers on Facebook, enjoys rave reviews and was spurred by a violent and traumatic event to pursue a 'spiritual calling': making people laugh. A rare and revealing interview with media-phobic stand-up artist Yaron Berlad.
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Relatively Speaking / Rivka Zaddik Fisher and Shirli Nes Berlin
Rivka, born in Haifa in 1935, is mother to Shirli, born in Haifa in 1970.
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On the waterfront
Few members of the public know his name but Alon Hassan is the real boss of Israel's largest maritime port, in Ashdod. The head of one of the port workers committees, Hassan can stop work in order to celebrate a family event, disrupt it to preserve wage benefits and bend the will of regulators with a single phone call.
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Love triangle
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art's new wing has finally opened. Haaretz accompanied architect Preston Scott Cohen as he took his first tour around the completed $50-million building. Critics contend, however, that the facility is in danger of upstaging the art rather than showcasing it.
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Museum piece
An exhibition about the Ata clothing factory is the perfect place to contemplate fraying seams.
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Pleasure Hunting / The French connection
In our final column about Parisian cuisine, we show how you can eat well and (relatively) cheaply in the City of Lights.
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Relatively speaking / Leah and Zeev Carmeli
Leah lives in an apartment building on Carmeli Street in Petah Tikva, on land that belonged to her husband's family over a century ago, when they owned half of the city. Zeev lives in a small house in Hod Hasharon.
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True lies
The body is a permanent subject of observation in art, and in sports photos the subject becomes the motion of the body.
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West Bank settlement is outdoing its neighboring Bedouin village
Dozens of people in Umm al-Khayr live in grinding poverty, next to a few hundred people to whom Israel has generously supplied, in the heart of the desert, the amenities for leading a comfortable modern life.
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Israeli film on sex assault victims sheds light on what is oft kept out of sight
Michal Aviad's new film, 'Invisible' brings together two of the country's leading actors, Ronit Elkabetz and Evgenia Dodina; they talk here about sexual violence, feminism, cinema and repression.
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Photographic memories
Five Israeli directors delve into their private collections to choose the photograph that represents a key moment in their cinematic career, and explain how it influenced their work
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Flashdance
I don't like it when performers bore me. But when something surprising and funny is presented onstage, I am ready to forgive everything.
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Unconditional love
Gantz fulfills the metaphor of the warm embrace that overtook the Israeli discourse
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Photographic Memories / Blast from the past
Avi Nesher recalls the demolition of the British secret police building in 'Rage and Glory,' when he lost his fear as a filmmaker.
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Photographic Memories / Bump and the grind
Keren Yedaya was pregnant during the filming of her second feature, 'Jaffa,' a condition she feels adversely affected the movie
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