The Cardamon Quartet

World Music

The Cardamon quartet is a unique phenomenon in the Jewish music world. It blends Kleizmer and Israeli folk music with other influences from the Mediterranean area, such as Turkish, Arabic and Greek music. The rare combination, together with Cuban, Brazilian and Jazz rhythms, brings to life some of Israel's pioneer songs, as well as the quartet's original compositions.

Boris Carmi

"Boris Carmi - Photographs from Israel". Boris Carmi (b.1914, Moscow–d. 2002, Tel Aviv) was one of the founding fathers of photojournalism in the new-born Israel, focusing on scenes of everyday life, and portraits of the country's cultural elite. His exceptional selection of photographs from the early 1940s on, are now being shown around the world.
 

Ivri Lider

Ivri Lider, born at 1974, started his artistic path in writing original music for Israeli dance groups, and feature films including “Yossi & Jagger” and “Walk on Water”. Lider has released three successful albums with Helicon Records; in 1997 “MELATEF VE MESHAKER” (Stroking while Lying), and two years later “ALMOST BETTER THAN NOTHING” reached Gold status. In 2002 Lider released his third chart-topping album, THE NEW PEOPLE. Lider performs to sold-out venues all over Israel, and is now known as the most powerful and appreciated music artist in Israel.

www.ivrilider.com

Jerusalem Lyric Trio

The Jerusalem Lyric Trio is a unique Israeli ensemble that highlights the religious and cultural heritage of the Jewish people in its performances. Since 1995, we have performed our imaginative, dramatic programs throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the United States, South America, Russia, and of course, Israel. In addition to well-known classical repertoire, the Jerusalem Lyric Trio presents works inspired by biblical texts, Jerusalem, the landscape of Israel, the Holocaust, and familiar songs (in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino).

www.jerusalemlyrictrio.com

Seeds of Sun

Seeds of Sun have established themselves as the leading Israeli Jazz ensemble in

North America, blending music written in Israel in a Jazz and World Music setting with original Israeli Jazz. The band has played on prestigious stages such as the Kennedy Center in Washington and the 92nd Street Y in New York, and has traveled as far as Vietnam, Hong Kong and the Philippines introducing a new and exciting sound of Israel to the world.

www.seedsofsun.com

Esta

Esta is a multi-ethnic band with innovative compositions and imaginative arrangements - deeply rooted in Israel's diverse traditions. Founded in 1979 by Shlomo Deshet and Ori Beanstock, Esta has created a distinctive new sound, incorporating Jewish, Balkan, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, African and Celtic genres into its own pan-global sound, propelled by Rock's energy and Jazz's musicianship. Performing as a group for over 25 years, Esta is among a handful of visionary artists to fuse contemporary music with folkloric styles and sounds. World Fusion isn't just a genre Esta performs. It is its soul.

www.olamale.com

Shalva Berti

 

Israeli music sensation Shalva Berti.

http://www.shalva.co.il/

Amir Gutfreund “Our Holocaust” 

Award-winning Israeli Author, Amir Gutfreund, mixes humor and pathos in his first novel translated into English ”Our Holocaust”. "Even if I write an instruction manual for a washing machine, it will always contain humor, and it will always contain the Holocaust. It's a part of me."Amir Gutfreund. It is this combination of the mundane, the humorous, and the horrific that give “Our Holocaust” its unique power. Throughout this enthralling tale, part autobiography, part novel, Gutfreund uses humor and keen psychological insight to guide us through the topsy-turvy world of a child growing up within a family and neighborhood where all the authority figures he knows have been damaged by the greatest horror the world has ever known: the Holocaust.

Chen Zimbalista

 

Chen Zimbalista waltzes around the stage with his marimba, vibraphone, drums and other percussion instruments, cajoling an enchanting array of rhythmic sounds from instruments usually relegated to the rear of the orchestra pit. He is Chen Zimbalista, Israel’s only solo percussionist. Zimbalista’s music defies classification and is a smorgasbord of classical, blues, jazz and soft rock. He has performed in Holland, Italy, Germany, Portugal, the United States and China.

www.zimbalista.com

Morena Amoora

Elina Pechersky and Neta Shezaf's work emphasizes the similarities between the two dance traditions, and the beauty within the differences. The performance, that is accompanied by live musicians consists of solo pieces performed according to each of the dancers unique style, as well as out of fascinating duets, set as dialogues that enhance the meeting between both dance traditions: the Arab and the Spanish. Morena Amoora is a good example for a co-existence between Arab and Jewish artists. Israel is a meeting point of many different cultures and Morena Amoora brings up this richness on the stage.

Morena Amoora was first performed at the Women's Festival in Hulon Israel, and was shown on Israel's main stages ever since. The performance was included in Israel's major dance festivals and abroad, among which, the Israel Festival- Jerusalem, the Spring International Festival in Kyiv Ukraine, Curtain Up / International Exposure Dance Festival- the Suzan Dellal Center, Tel Aviv, the Carmiel International Dance Festival, the millennium event in St. Moritz- Switzerland, a performing tour In USA-2004: NY, Houston- Texas, Savannah -Georgia and Washington DC and in Beyoglu festival - Istanbul, Turkey .Various audiences enthusiastically received Morena Amoora, Critically acclaimed by both the written and The electronic media.

Website: www.go.to/morenaamoora

“Art of Living” by Adi Nes

Meticulously staged photography, a wealth of details and references. In a tradition similar to Jeff Wall, Nes composes densely charged photographic tableaus: scenes from the life of a soldier and from the everyday life of young (Mizrahim) men, whose bodies show beauty, passivity and vulnerability. Adi was born in 1966, studied photography from 1989 to 1992 at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. From 1996 to 1997 he studied multimedia at the Sivan Computer School, Department of Multimedia &

Programming in Tel Aviv. Adi Nes belongs to the artist generation of the nineties, who especially address issues of gender identity. Some of these young artists take a post-Zionist approach that is expressed in the destruction of myths and other "sacred cows" in relation to the Israeli army.

Larry Weinberg

Larry Weinberg, Vice President of ISRAEL21c, one of the web's most popular sites promoting the latest, most innovative and exciting discoveries, inventions and people in Israel.

One of the founding members of the executive committee of Israel Experience Inc., a non-profit marketing organization that became Birthright Israel. Supervised the original branding of Birthright Israel-the organization providing free 10-day trips to Israel for every college-aged Jewish student-and the marketing of the first Birthright Israel trips.

Former principal of Navicom Group, a public relations agency with offices in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York. A veteran of New York government and politics, served on the staffs of three New York City mayors and was the economic development director of Brooklyn, New York for five years.

Lay leader and consultant to various Jewish organizations. Founding member of the United Jewish Appeal's Western Marketing and Media Advisory Board and served as its chair from 1992 to 1995.
Larry Weinberg was born and raised in New York. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University

Tippa Poppa

Family Show  

May

A dance and play performance displaying the wonders & marvels of the Process of Creation, assisted by the imaginary character, Giovanni Benedetti. Benedetti, A Wizard, accompanied by a dance troupe, desires to prove his majestic powers and invites the audience to take part on this very special day. The Wizard senses that this day something is going to happen. Something that will enable him to examine his magic skills, and test if indeed they really work…