Frits on June 10th, 2010

The famous Red House (the Lodzia factory) in the Nahmani Street was bought by business man Roni Duek and his wife, actress Yael Abecassis, for NIS 25 million ($8 million!). The beautiful red-brick building was build in 1924 by Akiva Weiss, one of the founding-fathers of Tel Aviv. The Duek couple wanted first to use [...]

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Frits on April 8th, 2010

The awesome and touching theater/video-art experience: ‘The Girl Who Could Not Kneel’, based on the diaries of Etty Hillesum (who was killed in Auschwitz in 1943 ) will be set on stage again at the Tmooneh Theatre on Monday, April 12th at 20:30 and on Wednesday, April 14th at 20:00. The play is directed by [...]

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Frits on February 11th, 2010

Yesterday, during a bright sunny day, I visited the beautiful Ajami-neighborhood. Towards the end of the 19th century the Ajami neighborhood , stretching south of ‘Old-Jaffa’ started to be built. In the beginning of the 20th century hundreds of families, mainly Christian-Arabs, settled in Ajami. After 1948, a large Arab population from different parts of [...]

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Frits on February 2nd, 2010

This is the 3rd time (!) in a row that an Israeli Movie (Beaufort, 2008; Waltz with Bashir in 2009) is one of the 5 nominees at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film. This afternoon, it was announced in L.A. that: AJAMI, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani was nominated for an Oscar [...]

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Frits on January 31st, 2010

In two days we will know if the Israeli film: Ajami, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani will be nominated for an Oscar. For all the people who saw, or will see this awesome movie about the Ajami-neighborhood in Jaffo, I recommand an outstanding book about the Arab-Jewish history of Jaffo: “City of Oranges [...]

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An original sketch by the Dutch painter Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) of the pianist Felicja Blumental was discovered, a few weeks ago, in the Felicja Blumental Music Center (Bialik Square, Tel Aviv). While at a Beethoven festival featuring a solo performance of Felicja Blumental with the Pasdeloup Orchestra, conducted by Heinrich Hollreiser, at the Palais [...]

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