Richard Landes is a Professor in the History Department at Boston University. He was trained as a medievalist and wrote his first book on a series of forgeries that had fooled historians for centuries, even after a scholar in the 1920s had shown decisively that the texts were fiction. In addition to working on medieval [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Holistic Haggadah:Contemporary Spiritual Commentary on the Meaning of Freedom and its Relationship to serving God
Through The Holistic Haggadah, Dr. Michael Kagan shares his teachings and approach to holistic Judaism that he has developed through experiential workshops and lectures in Israel and around the world. Originally from Britain he moved to Jerusalem in 1977, has a PhD in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is married to Rabbi Ruth [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dance Scholar Deborah Friedes Interviews Yair Vardi Dir. of The Suzanne Dellal Center Photos by Gadi Dagon
Yair Vardi
The Suzanne Dellal Center
On my first day touring the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in
October, faculty member Vered Aviv introduced me to Yair Vardi and
suggested that I meet with him to get a unique, thorough perspective
on Israeli contemporary dance. It was an excellent suggestion: when
it comes to this topic, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Deborah Interviews Israeli Dancer/Choreographer Renana Raz
A dancer recommended Renana Raz’s work to me shortly after I arrived
in October, and when I finally saw her Kazuaria in February, I found
that it was well worth the wait. Renana’s thorough, thoughtful
approach to creating dramatic dances and her inspired use of the Druze
debka dance proved to be a winning combination in this energetic
piece. A [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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