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From the Revolution Orchestra's 'Concerto for Gashash and Orchestra,' currently available online as concerts and other public gatherings are banned during the Iranian missile attacks in June 2025. (Credit: Moshe Zitat)
June 16, 2025, 6:57 am
With halls shuttered, orchestras offer online concerts for distraction
Cultural institutions upload performances and classes for Israelis stuck at home during Iranian missile crisis
By Jessica Steinberg
The musical Kabbalat Shabbat service taking place weekly at Jerusalem cultural center Beit Avi Chai, including November 3, 2023 at 1 p.m. (Courtesy Beit Avi Chai)
November 2, 2023, 12:31 pm
Shai Tsabari, fellow musicians to welcome Shabbat with the displaced
Jerusalem’s Beit Avi Chai cultural center is hosting free and online events for those evacuated from their homes in the north and south, along with local residents
By Jessica Steinberg
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Photo by Yakovi Doron
September 7, 2022, 8:04 pm
Leonard Cohen’s Yom Kippur War performance comes alive on Israeli stage
Some 50 years after Cohen serenaded IDF soldiers in the Sinai desert, Beit Avi Chai explores his mythical trip to the frontlines, a unique moment in Israel history.
'Breakfast in the Katamonim,' oil, by Marek Yanai, on display at Beit Avi Chai exhibition, 'On the Threshold, Jerusalem in Oil and Watercolor,' through July 2022. (Courtesy Beit Avi Chai)
May 22, 2022, 9:55 am
Veteran Jerusalem artist paints small city moments in new exhibit
Marek Yanai’s ‘On the Threshold’ offers up deep, rich oil and watercolor paintings of Jerusalem at Beit Avi Chai, and is available online as well
By Jessica Steinberg
Yiddishist Ruth Wisse will talk about Chaim Grade's seminal short story, 'My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner,' for Beit Avi Chai on September 12, 2021 (Courtesy TeleTime for the Tikvah Fund)
September 12, 2021, 4:36 pm
Famed Yiddishist Ruth Wisse discusses soul-searching in seminal short story
In Beit Avi Chai online conversation ahead of the Day of Atonement, Wisse and historian Asael Abelson take long look at ‘My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner’
By Jessica Steinberg
Taking a tour in Tel Aviv's Sarona complex, one of many being offered in the city over the Passover 2021 holiday (Courtesy Riki Rahman)
March 24, 2021, 9:28 pm
With an exodus from COVID rules underway, this Passover offers events galore
Before, during and after the Seder, Israelis can celebrate the festival with concerts, workshops, games and tours, now that most pandemic restrictions have been lifted
By Jessica Steinberg
Some of the books written about the Ethiopian Israeli experience by Naomi Shmuel, who will speak at the Beit Avi Chai digital Sigd celebration on November 16, 2020. (courtesy, Naomi Shmuel)
November 15, 2020, 10:27 pm
Ethiopian Sigd holiday marked with online events at Beit Avi Chai
Children’s book author Naomi Shmuel to speak about diversity and difference in Ethiopian community for digital celebration
By Jessica Steinberg
Pianist Shlomi Shaban participated in Beit Avi Chai's comprehensive content for the 5781 High Holidays (Courtesy Lior Keter)
September 18, 2020, 12:38 pm
High Holiday content goes online for the Jewish New Year
Musicians and rabbis, chefs and writers take on questions of spirituality and knock on the gates of heaven with Jerusalem cultural center Beit Avi Chai
By Jessica Steinberg
Prof. Alice Shalvi giving a history of religious feminism at the Shalom Hartman Institute on February 14, 2018 (Netanel Tobias)
September 2, 2020, 12:56 pm
LISTEN: Israel Prize-winning educator Prof. Alice Shalvi talks Jewish feminism
While live events are still scarce, this week’s podcast episode revisits an onstage interview in Jerusalem from January 2019
By ToI Staff
The weekly meetings of Tzomet Lev, created by the Mekudeshet Festival for the 2020 summer season, as a way to bring together Jewish and Arab residents of southern Jerusalem (Courtesy Mekudeshet)
July 26, 2020, 11:47 am
Drive-in performances, digital meetups among creative ways to celebrate summer
Here are some podcasts, one-time performances, neighborly get-togethers and virtual talks for whiling away Jerusalem’s hot summer days
By Jessica Steinberg
A girl and her bananas, from 'Emerging from the Shadows' exhibit at Beit Avi Chai, through June 2020 (Courtesy Sarah Ayal)
January 17, 2020, 4:25 pm
‘Amazing’ photographer of 50s-60s Israel emerges with posthumous exhibit
Sarah Ayal took photos as part of her governmental work, but never had them displayed until her granddaughter got to work
By Jessica Steinberg
'Shababnikim' creator Eliran Malka is interviewed by Times of Israel culture writer Jessica Steinberg for a Times of Israel Presents event at Beit Avi Chai on August 25, 2019 (Courtesy Matthew Kalman)
August 26, 2019, 10:06 am
‘Shababnikim’ creator shares inspiration for hit TV show
At Times of Israel Presents event, writer Eliran Malka speaks of his interest in portraying the lives of cool, hip yeshiva guys
By ToI Staff
Eliran Malka, left, and the cast of 'Shababnikim.' (Courtesy HOT)
August 15, 2019, 5:43 am
From Shakespeare to ‘Shababnikim’: Late summer with The Times of Israel Presents
TOI teams up with Beit Avi Chai, the Khan Theatre and Theater in the Rough to put on a colorful variety of live summer events for English speakers in Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Amanda Borschel-Dan (left), with professor and educator Alice Shalvi at the Times of Israel Presents event Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at Beit Avi Chai (Dana Bar Siman Tov)
January 16, 2019, 3:10 pm
Renowned educator Alice Shalvi captivates at Times of Israel Presents event
Shalvi, 92, relates the life experiences that powered her evolution from Orthodox girl in Germany to Cambridge student to Conservative feminist icon in Jerusalem
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli Nobel Prize winner Prof. Robert Yisrael Aumann (right) speaks with journalist Matthew Kalman at a Times of Israel Presents event produced in partnership with Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem, December 12, 2018. (Dana Bar Siman Tov)
December 13, 2018, 4:05 pm
Israeli-Palestinian peace a matter of incentives, says Nobel laureate Aumann
At a packed Jerusalem event, Robert Yisrael Aumann shares his life story and dissects the conflict using game theory
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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