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Spring 2008 Newsletter-
Special Edition for Israel’s 60th Anniversary
On June 1st
Washington Celebrates Israel @ 60 on the National Mall
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The Women
Who Kept the Songs from India
to Israel- The
Musical Heritage of Cochin
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Cochin singers
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Monday,
April 7th, Noon
Library
of Congress
Mumford Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building
Accompanied by a Special Book Display
10:00am-5:00pm
Asian Reading Room
LJ-150, Jefferson Building
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Monday,
April 7th, 7:30 PM
Washington DC Jewish Community Center
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For centuries Jewish women
along India’s Malabar Coast filled notebooks with Jewish-themed
songs they wrote and sang in Malayalam at weddings and community
celebrations and rituals. Indian, Israeli and American researchers aided a
group of Cochin Israelis in restoring and bringing to modern ears the
voices of their aunts and grandmothers. A performance by two of the Nurit
singers and presentations by Indian and American scholars highlights the
program.
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Etti Ankri
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Etti Ankri
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Tuesday,
April 8th, 7:30 PM
6th
& I Historic Congregation
Washington, DC
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Sunday,
April 13th, 8PM
University of Virginia
Abbott Center, Darden School
Charlottesville, VA
Part
of Hearing Israel:
Music, Culture and History at 60
University of Virginia Jewish Studies Program
April
13-14, 2008
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Come
check out singer Etti Ankri, hailed as “rock genius” and the “Poet of
Israeli Spirituality,” in an evening of spiritual and ethnic Israeli music
at its best. As a lyricist and composer, her idiosyncratic work touches on
contemporary social commentary, feminist perspectives and religious and
kabalistic imagery.
Etti
Ankri was born in 1963 in Israel.
After studying at Rimon
Music School,
she hit popularity as a film and TV actress, starring in seven movies and
TV series. Her first hit album was released in 1990. Since then, she has
released six other albums, and recently came out with a greatest hits
double album. As lyricist and composer, her idiosyncratic work touches on
contemporary social comment, feminist perspectives, and religious and
kabalistic imagery.
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Israeli Art Exhibition- Personal
Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel
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Tal Shochat. Untitled, 2005. Photograph. Courtesy of
Rosenfeld Gallery
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Tuesday,
April 1st -Sunday, May 18
American University
Katzen Arts
Center
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Gallery
Talk with Curators:
Thursday,
April 10, 5-6 PM
Katzen Arts
Center
Israeli
art exhibition, Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel,
a collaboration of the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation, the Center
for Israel Studies and the American
University Museum,
will present the work of contemporary Israeli artists at the Katzen Arts Center.
Opening reception to be held on April 10th, 6:00-8:00, exhibit tour
5:00-6:00.
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman
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Itzhak Perlman
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Thursday,
April 10th
– 7:30
Pro
Musica Hebraica Inagural Concert
Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater
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Featuring
the Julliard Artists & Itzhak Perlman, Violin
Sunday,
May 4th – 4 PM
The
Music Center at Strathmore
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This concert will feature some of classical music’s premier
young voices from the Juilliard School of Music along with a special
appearance by the legendary Itzhak Perlman,
accompanied by his long-time collaborator, pianist Rohan De Silva.
The performers include Juilliard’s Graduate Resident Quartet Biava String Quartet
(Austin Hartman and Hyunsu Ko, violins, Mary Persin, viola, and Jason
Calloway, cello) together with guest artists clarinetist Tibi Cziger,
bassist Andrew Roitstein
and percussionists Alexander
Lipowski and Michael
Caterisano and the N-E-W Trio
(Andrew Wan, violin, Gal Nyska, cello, and Julio Elizalde, piano).
For
more information on Pro Musica Hebraica click here
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Seeds of Sun
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Seeds of Sun
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Saturday, April 12th, 8 PM
Adat
Chaim
Reisterstown, MD
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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.
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information on Seeds on Sun click here
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Filmmaker David Ofek & Screenings
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”The Hebrew Lesson”
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Monday, April 14th, 7:30 PM
Washington DC Jewish Community Center
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“The Hebrew Lesson (Haulpan)”
Chin
left her daughter in China
and came to Israel
to make a living… Sasha never considered immigrating to Israel. But four years after
his girlfriend left Russia
with their daughter, he understood that life without his child is
worthless. He left a thriving business behind only to find himself in Tel
Aviv‘s worst neighborhood... Marisol grew up as a Jewish Princess in Lime
Peru, and came to Israel
to learn something about life... These characters meet in a Hebrew
language Ulpan where their personal stories meld with the complexities of
Israeli reality. The immense effort of learning a new language is
revealed through their encounter with a strange culture and an unfamiliar
environment. Israeli society is revealed through the foreigner‘s eyes.
This gaze, at times funny, at times sad, paints our daily reality with
irony.
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”NO.17” photo courtesy of www.reelfilm.com
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Wednesday, April 16th, 7:30 PM
University of Maryland
Hoff
Theater
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“No. 17”
In
June 2002, a bus on its way from Tel Aviv to Tiberius was bombed. 17
people were killed, 16 were identified. No. 17 wasn’t. He was buried a
few weeks later – anonymous. The police stopped searching, believing that
he must have been a foreign worker. This is where the filmmakers step in,
documenting in real time over a period of six months the search for the
identity of a man no one claimed missing. The film takes the form of a
detective investigation, but also pursues the stories of several people
who were affected directly or indirectly by this bombing, creating a
tragic-comic portrait of a society living under the shadow of death.
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The Ariel Quartet
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The Ariel Quartet
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Monday, April 21st, 7:30 PM
Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater
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The young
Israeli performers of the Ariel String Quartet are taking the music world
by storm. They enjoyed their professional debut at the Jerusalem Music
Centre in 2000, and are currently an honors ensemble at the New England
Conservatory of Music. In 2006, the quartet won the Grand Prize at the
Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. For their Kennedy Center
debut, the foursome will perform Haydn's final string quartet,
Beethoven's songlike String Quartet in B-flat major, and a challenging
new work by Hungarian composer György Kurtág.
Program:
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HAYDN - String
Quartet in F major, Op. 77, No. 2
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KURTAG - Six Moments
Musicaux Dédies à Mon Fils
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BEETHOVEN - String
Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130
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20th Annual Baltimore Jewish Film Festival
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”Three Mothers”
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April 1st-May 18th
Various
locations
The 29th Annual Baltimore
Jewish Festival is not to be missed- and will include the screening of 4
fabulous Israeli films in celebration of Israel’s 60th
Anniversary.
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Thursday,
April 3rd, 7:30 PM- Beaufort
Nominated
for the 2008 Oscar and winner of many international awards.
The
suspenseful and powerful film depicts how Liraz, a young Israeli soldier,
becomes commander of his unit defending the Lebanon fortress while
dealing with complex relationships and moral dilemmas.
Thursday, April 10th, 7:30 PM- Three Mothers
A
magnificent and colorful saga of 3 Jewish Egyptian
sisters and their family secrets
Tuesday April 29th, 7:30 PM- Sweet Mud
Winner
of the 2007 Sundance Award. Dvir is 12, in 1974 and lives on
a kibbutz with his mother and older brother. His riveting and
coming of age story uncovers romantic notions about kibbutz life and
touching family relationships.
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“Noodle”
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“Noodle”
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Tuesday, April 22, 7:30 pm
Washington DCJCC
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Miri is a 37 year old, twice widowed El-Al flight attendant
whose normal daily routine is turned on its head
by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant worker
mother is deported from Israel. The
boy, Noodle, as he is affectionately nicknamed,
doesn’t speak Hebrew, so the language barrier alone
poses challenges but also provides humor to this
charming comic-drama. Penned by Ayelet Menahemi
and Shemi Zarhin (Aviva
My Love, WJFF 2007) this adventure is
filled with touching personal moments, likeable
characters, emotional conflict and a budding relationship
between two unlikely characters; an independent,
self-assured but lonely Miri, and the delightful,
but sad boy in search of his mother. Their
journey is a heartwarming one which leads them both
back to a meaningful life.
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“The
Last Fighters”
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“The Last Fighters”
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Monday, April 28, 7:30 PM
Washington DCJCC
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This
moving documentary follows the lives of the last six surviving
fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Four of
the six live in Israel: Kazik Rotem, Masha futermilch–Gleitman, Pnina Greenspan and
Aharon Carmi; Brunk Spigel lives in Canada and Marek Edelman
decided to remain in Poland. The Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising was the largest organized Jewish resistance
to the Nazis. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought
what was then the strongest army in Europe for nearly one month, but the revolt
ended on May 16, 1943. Despite their eventual downfall,
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become an iconic touchstone
of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust. Their
memories from the uprising provide us with personal insight
into their fight, and reflect on what their actions mean
today. This recollection, 60 years later, serves
to highlight the courage of those who fought in the uprising;
what they risked every day that they fought and what these
events have meant to their personal history and our collective
memory.
Panel discussion to follow with guests: Aviva Kempner,
co-writer and producer, Partisans of Vilna, Dr. Marsha Rozenblit,
Professor of Modern Jewish History at University
of Maryland, and Estelle
Laughlin, Warsaw
Ghetto Survivor.
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8th Annual JCCNV International Jewish Film Festival
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"Jellyfish”
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Tuesday, April 29 – Thursday, May 15
Jewish Community
Center of Northern
Virginia
8900 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax, VA 22031
The JCCNV is proud to present the 8th Annual
International Jewish Film Festival. Truly international, the film
festival features films from eight countries including the U.S. and Israel. This year, in
addition to the screenings at the Cinema Arts Theater in Fairfax and
the JCCNV, the festival has expanded to include movie screenings at
the Rosslyn Spectrum in Arlington.
In celebration of Israel’s 60th
Anniversary, 6 renowned Israeli films will be screened during the 8th
Annual JCCNV International Jewish Film Festival.
“Three Mothers”- Winner, 2006 Wolgin Award & 2006
Israeli Film Academy for Best Cinematography
“Knowledge is the Beginning”- Winner, 2006
International Emmy Award
“Turn Left at the End of the World”- Winner, 2004 Israeli Film Academy
Award for Best Art Direction & Best Costume Design
“Jellyfish”- Winner, 2007 Cannes
Film Festival (Golden Camera)
“Love and Dance”- 2006 Nomination Moscow International Film Festival
“Sweet Mud”- Winner, 2007 Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival
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Cellist Amit Peled
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Amit Peled
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Sunday, May 4th 4 PM
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street,
NW
Washington, DC
20009
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Recently hailed
by the American Record Guide as “having the
flair of the young Rostropovich” Israeli cellist Amit
Peled is forging an international career of the highest caliber
both as a soloist, chamber musician and an enthusiastic teacher.
Mr. Peled has been a featured guest artist in some of the world's
major concert halls such as: Wigmore Hall, London,
Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, NY City, Salle Gaveau, Paris,
National Auditorium in Barcelona, Konzerthaus, Berlin and Tel Aviv's Man
Auditorium.
Being one of the youngest cello professors in the United States, Peled joined the
distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins
University
in Baltimore
in September 2003.
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Shorashim
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Shorashim
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Wednesday May 7th, 7 PM
Congregation B’nai Israel
Rockville, MD
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Saturday, May 17th – 8PM
Temple Shalom
Chevy Chase, MD
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Magda Fishman and Yuval Cohen present a special evening
of Israeli songs of the past and present. During their decade
long partnership, they have explored various musical genres such as
jazz, musical theatre and world music which influence the way they
approach the music of their roots (Shorashim in Hebrew). The
evening will include old-time favorites as well as selections that
are not often heard on this side of the Atlantic
. Magda and Yuval will be joined by multi-instrumentalist and
composer Gilad Cohen. Their music and more information can be found
at www.shorashimmusic.com
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Share the Dream, Live the Reality: 60th
Anniversary for Israel
at the MLK Memorial Library
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Painted Backgammon box Anat Strul
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Monday, May 12th- Sunday May 18th
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street, NW Great Hall
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Join DC Public Library and the Embassy of
Israel for a week of educational programs that celebrates the
culture and history of Israel. The week of
events kicks off with the opening of “The Art of
Reconciliation”: 60 artists from Israel explore the theme
of tolerance and reconciliation in their design of backgammon boxes.
Other programs include a curator presentation, roundtable discussion,
musical concert and a walking tour.
Sponsored by the DC Public Library, B’nai Brith
International and the Embassy of Israel
Monday, May 12, 7:30 PM
Exhibition opening and celebration kick off; “The Art
of Reconciliation”
Tuesday, May 13, 6:30 PM
Curator Lecture and Exhibition Tour
Wednesday, May 14, 10:30 AM
Children’s Program
Wednesday , May 14, 6:30 PM
Israeli film screening- “Broken Wings”
Thursday, May 15, 6:30 PM
Lecture: Jewish Washington
with guest speaker, more info TBA
Friday, May 16, Noon
Concert Featuring “Shorashim”
Sunday, May 18, 2:00 PM
Jewish Washington
Walking Tour
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Inon Barnaton
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Saturday,
May 31st 8 PM
Library
of Congress
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Pianist
Inon Barnaton will perform with Alisa Welierstein (cello) & Liza
Ferschtman (violin)
Israeli
pianist Inon Barnatan, still in his twenties, has already proved himself an
exceptional musician with a flourishing international reputation through
his orchestral, recital and chamber music performances worldwide.
In recent seasons Inon performed recitals in New York’s
Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam, the Louvre Auditorium in Paris, Salla Verdi in Milan, Wigmore
Hall in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Arts Theatre in Shanghai and
the Rising Star series of the Ravinia and Gilmore festivals.
Program:
Schubert: Sonata in c minor
D.958
Fantasy for violin and piano in C major D.934
Piano Trio in E flat Major
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Theater J’s New Musical “David in Shadow
and Light”
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May 6 - June 22, 2008
Washington DCJCC
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Libretto by Yehuda Hyman & Music by Daniel
Hoffman
Directed by
Nick Olcott, Music Directed by George Fulginiti-Shakar
Choreography
by Peter DiMuro and Shula Strassfeld of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
An epic musical
retelling of King David's astonishing trajectory from boy shepherd, to
superstar ruler, to aging king, this visually stunning production
incorporates thrilling dance sequences and a post-modern frame through
which we can identify with the triumphs and travails of one of the most
complex and charismatic figures in biblical history. Following the
performance, ethnomusicologist and clarinetist Joel Rubin will lead a
discussion with composer and violinist Daniel Hoffman.
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Washington Jewish
Music Festival
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Sunday, June 1st- Sunday, July 13th
FOR
MORE INFORMATION, INCLUDING A COMPLETE SCHEDULE &
TICKETS, CLICK HERE
was
Festival Music Jewish Washington Theestablished in 1999
to foster a broader appreciation of Jewish culture and
to provide the greater Washington DC
community an opportunity to connect through music. On
our stages, masters of traditional music from around the
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