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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Hayim Nahman Bialik

The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod will headline Hayim Nahman Bialik's 150th birthday celebration concert on December 14, 2022 (Courtesy Mike Edry)
December 11, 2022, 4:53 pm
Bialik to get birthday concert at crossroads of east and west
The renowned poet’s 150th will be marked with Tel Aviv show of the Andalusian Orchestra, featuring singers Berry Sakharov, Rita, Ester Rada, Shlomi Shaban and others
By Jessica Steinberg
The city of Tel Aviv's newest sanitation truck will receive a new Hebrew name in a contest taking place through March 23, 2021 (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)
March 21, 2021, 2:42 pm
Public asked to find a name for Tel Aviv’s new garbage truck
Municipality holds contest for latest vehicle to join the city fleet, offering more capacity for trash-happy residents
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Dignitaries lead the 53rd annual Celebrate Israel Parade down 5th Avenue in New York City, June 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
November 11, 2019, 9:34 pm
A new book explores the ties that no longer bind the Jews. It’s a good start
Daniel Gordis peels back some of the surface layers of the divide between Israeli and American Jews to reveal a deeper chasm of identity and history
By Haviv Rettig Gur
A Jewish family stands outside of their ransacked home following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. (public domain)
April 9, 2018, 5:05 am
How a small pogrom in Russia changed the course of history
Until the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was the archetype for anti-Jewish persecution, according to a new book about the massacre’s long afterlife
By Matt Lebovic
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai at the mobile library. (photo credit: Malovani Israel)
March 13, 2018, 6:36 pm
UK’s Independent ranks Tel Aviv as top literary town
Known for its collection of poets, streets named for literary lights, and beaches with lending libraries, the city by the sea ranks high for readers
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Participants at the Limmud FSU conference in Odessa, Ukraine lean against a poster hailing singer Bob Dylan as a pride of the city on Saturday October 21, 2017 (Gavin Rabinowitz/ Times of Israel)
November 13, 2017, 1:46 pm
Poetry and revolution: Searching for Bob Dylan in Ukraine
The city of Odessa and its Jewish community are bringing it all back home to honor the legendary folk singer as one of their own — with mixed results
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Paddle-boarders lining up for Tel Aviv's now-annual seaside competition, taking place this year on Thursday, April 28 (Courtesy Efrat Saar)
April 20, 2016, 11:08 am
With Passover in the air, freedom to enjoy a show, or two
This holiday season, don’t pass over these great events around the country, many of them free
By Jessica Steinberg
Culture Minister Miri Regev at Habima Theater in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 29, 2016, 7:02 am
Miri Regev’s cultural war heats up
With the culture minister’s loyalty bill and the Im Tirtzu ‘mole’ campaign, will Israeli artistry be censored?
By Jessica Steinberg
MK Youssef Jabareen of the Joint (Arab) List at the Knesset, June 9, 2015 (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
June 21, 2015, 3:51 am
MK wants Arab educators to get same autonomy as Orthodox Jewish teachers
Georgetown-trained law professor Youssef Jabareen pushes new bill, warns young Arabs in Israel are alienated from their culture
By Elhanan Miller
Bialik Street viewed from the plaza (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
January 24, 2015, 9:33 am
On Tel Aviv’s glorious Bialik Street, architecture ranges wildly from eclectic to Bauhaus
Rubin Museum, Bialik’s home and former City Hall are some of the standout buildings on serene avenue mainly constructed by wealthy people from Europe accustomed to gracious living
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Erez Biton, a celebrated Israeli poet, at the Sharon Hotel in Herzliya on November 19, 2014 (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)
December 8, 2014, 3:37 pm
The illuminator of blinded landscapes
Erez Biton, a poet from Lod who believes he would have been an airport cargo loader had he not lost his sight, won a lifetime achievement award Sunday
By Mitch Ginsburg
Benjamin Netanyahu during a memorial ceremony marking Memorial Day on May 5, 2014 at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem. To his right are Shimon Peres and Yuli Edelstein. (photo credit: AFP/POOL/JIM HOLLANDER)
July 1, 2014, 12:08 am
Netanyahu quotes Bialik’s post-pogrom poem in response to murder of teens
Says prime minister: ‘Such vengeance for blood of babe and maiden hath yet to be wrought by Satan’
By Mitch Ginsburg
The still-crowded grave of Arik Einstein in Tel Aviv's Trumpledor Cemetery (photo credit: Gideon Markowitz/Flash 90)
December 13, 2013, 1:08 pm
Go cemetery hopping — it’s not all that grave
Take a trip around some of the country’s most significant burial grounds, replete with beauty and history
By Jessica Steinberg
Hayim Nahman Bialik 1923 (photo credit: Wikipedia)
October 7, 2013, 10:58 am
Odessa Limmud featuring exhibit on the Israeli poet Bialik
Four-day Jewish learning conference kicked off Saturday with some 500 Russian Jews
By JTA
Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion stands at attention as the national anthem, Hatikva, is played at the Knesset opening ceremony in 1949. (GPO/Hugo Mendelson)
April 16, 2013, 5:45 pm
How an unwieldy romantic poem and a Romanian folk song combined to produce ‘Hatikva’
The national anthem only actually became the national anthem nine years ago, and that’s just one of the twists in the ‘loathsome’ hymn’s ongoing quest for harmonious acceptance
By Ilan Ben Zion
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