The
Israel Center is proud to bring you:
Scholars-in-Residence Series:
SEE, HEAR, TASTE:
ISRAEL THROUGH
THE SENSES
The series offers
a chance to interact with
Israel's most visionary thinkers and artists
Click
here for Bios
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 Professor
Larry Abramson
Residency: September 2005
REVISIONS
Larry Abramson: Searching for an Ideal City
Prominent Israeli artist and art scholar creates
an installation which reflects on the 20th century
visual culture idealized image of Jerusalem. Click
for Bio
September 12, 2005 - January 8, 2006.
The Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2911 Russell St, Berkeley.
www.magnes.org,
or call 510-549-6950
September 14, 2005.
Israel Center's hosted
event with Larry Abramson.
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 Gidi
Grinstein
Residency: October 26 - 18, 2005
Founder and president of The Re'ut Institute
Zionist think-tank. Click
for Bio
Wednesday, Ocotober 26, 2005:
TZAVTA's Israel Update.
More...
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 M.K.
Avshalom "Abu" Vilan
Residency: November 4 - 5, 2005
Avshalom "Abu" Vilan, co-founder of
the internationally acclaimed Israeli peace movement,
PEACE NOW, is a veteran Israeli peace activist,
kibbutz manager and educator, as well as a former
campaign director for the "Mapam" and
"Meretz" parties. Vilan is a member
of Knesset from Yachad party. Click
for Bio
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 Rabbi
Elisha Wolfin
Residency: November 13 - 18, 2005
Educator, director of Jewish Programming, counselor,
and creator of Holistic Beit Midrash that offers
a host of courses that combine Torah study with
ancient kabbalistic, Hassidic and new age approaches.
More details soon... Click
for Bio
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 Michel
Kichka
Residency: February 6 - 15, 2006
Cartoonist and chair of the Israeli Cartoon
Association currently serves as a senior lecturer
of illustration and comics in the Visual Communications
Department at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
Click
for Bio
Israel:
the Cartoonists' Diagnosis, A View Point From
Within. Top
cartoonists take a critical look at Israel of
today.
Click
for Israel Center's greeting & cartoon samples...
Click
for Jewish Weekly 2003 article on Kichka...
Exhibit dates:
February 1 - April 9, 2006. At
the Cartoon Art Museum, 655 Mission St., San Francisco.
www.cartoonart.org.
Phone: 415.243.8666 / 415.CAR.TOON.
February 6 - 27, 2006. On
display at the Bureau of Jewish Education 639
14th Ave., San Francisco. Please call to schedule
a visit, Vavi Toran, Israel Education Initiative,
415.751.6983 #133
Monday, February 6, 7:00
- 8:30 pm. Speaker Series for Educators:
Michel
Kichka & Israeli Cartoon Exhibition Gallery
Walk and Talk. Bureau
of Jewish Education, 639 14th Avenue, San Francisco.
Invite parents, lay people, faculty and colleagues!
Light fare will be served.
Wednesday, February 8, 4:00
pm. Academy of Art
University, 79 New Montgomery, San Francisco.
415.274.8641. Co-Sponsored by the Consulate General
of Israel.
Saturday, February 11, 8:00
pm. In
Hebrew. Congregation Beth Am.
26790 Arastradero Rd., Los Alto Hills. 650.493.4661.
Co-Sponsored with the Israeli House of the Israeli
Consulate.
Monday, February 13, 7:00 pm.
Congregation Beth El. 1301 Oxford St., Berkeley.
510.848.3988.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006.
7:00 pm. Opening
& Talk: At the Cartoon
Art Museum, 655 Mission St., San Francisco. www.cartoonart.org.
Phone: 415.243.8666 / 415.CAR.TOON.
FREE!
More
about the exhibit...
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Actor Yossi
Vassa
in "It Sounds Better In Amharic"
Residency: February
11 - 23, 2006
Israeli
/ Ethiopian One Man Show on Tour for Black History
Month. Reception and discussion
following the show.
Yossi Vassa, who
was born in Ethiopia and made aliya to Israel
in 1985 at age 10, is a well-known Israeli actor
and comedian.
"It
Sounds Better In Amharic" is a moving,
personal account of a 700 kilometer journey by
foot from Ethiopia to a refugee camp in Sudan,
and then finally flying to the holy land. Nostalgic
memories of life in Ethiopia are mixed with hilarious
perspectives towards the adjustments that must
be made when moving to modern day Israel.
Ethiopian-born Comic Mines History
for Laughs, by Loolwa Khazzoom LOOLWA,The
Forward, February 24, 2006
PERFORMANCE
SCHEDULE
 Saturday,
February 11, 2006. 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm.
Sunday, February 12, 2006. 12:30 pm.
MOAD, The Museum of the African Diaspora.
685 Mission St. San Francisco. (415) 358-7200.
Free with museum admission.
Wednesday, February
15, 2006. 7:30 pm. UC Davis.
At the Campus Coffee House (CoHo). Phone: (530)
756-3708. Free.
Thursday,
February 16, 2006. 7:30 pm. UC
Berkeley. 145 Dwinelle Hallin. (510)-845-7793.
Saturday, February 18,
2006. 8:00 pm. Congregation Shomrei Torah,
1717 Yulupa Avenue, Santa Rosa. Cost: $10.00.
Info: (707) 578-5519.
Sunday, February 19,
2006. 7:30 pm. Special Be’chol Lashon
special presentation at the Claremont Hotel .
41 Tunnel Road, Berkeley. Tickets: $10 ($5 for
students and seniors). www.inticketing.com.
Monday, February 20,
2006. 4:00 pm. San Jose State. Cultural
Heritage Center. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.
One Washington Square, San Jose. (408) 286.6669.
Free.
Due to
popular demand we are adding another show:
Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 7:00pm.
MOAD, Museum of African Diaspora, 685 Mission
St. San Francisco (415) 358-7200. Followed
by an invitation only reception.
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 Chen
Zimbalista
Residency: April 24 - 29, 2006
Percussionist performer and teacher will be
giving workshops at Bay Area schools.
Tuesday, April 25. 8:00
pm. Don Quixote 's International Music Hall. 6275
Highway 9 in Downtown Felton.
$12 adv. / $14 door. Assigned seats. Under 21
- with parents. www.donquixotesmusic.com,
or call 831-603-2294.
Click
for Bio, Zimbalista's
website ...
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 Inbal
Pinto Dance Company
Presented by the
Israel Center & the Consulate
General of Israel in San Francisco
Residency: May 5 – 6, 2006
- Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak discuss
Oyster:
a Surreal Circus Fable for Our Times. Click
for Bio
Saturday, May 6 , 2006: post-performance
discussion, Q&A and reception, Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, San Francisco. More... |
Theater
Director Sinai Peter 
Acclaimed
Author Savyon Liebrecht 
Lavon
Mercer 
Ilil Alexander 
Encounters
with Joshua Sobol
