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		<title>Makom Engaging Israel</title>
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		<title><![CDATA[We are moving!]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arik Einstein - great and communal]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The difference between what some call &ldquo;community art&rdquo; and &ldquo;great art&rdquo; is rarely to do with whether the artist is a professional or not. It all comes down to the audience. To whom does the art speak?
 
While most great art begins by touching on the personal, the individual, the >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Going Gaga]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s kind of a shame that Lady Gaga had to go and make it all confusing.  She has taken full ownership of the word &ldquo;gaga&rdquo; and tattooed her outrageous persona onto the word in such a way that few people can now see it from any other perspective. Of >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Juliano Mer-Khamis assassinated]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Jenin police chief Mohammed Tayyim said Mer-Khamis was shot five times by masked Palestinian militants, but that Israeli security forces were still investigating the circumstances of his murder. A Palestinian ambulance took his body to a nearby checkpoint to be transferred into Israel.
 
 
Mer-Khamis' mother, Arna Mer, was >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dance of the People]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard this same song played last night at a bar.  A bunch of twenty and thirty-somethings, balancing beers and cocktails in their hands, swayed back and forth and nodded their heads to the beat (a generic Middle-Eastern sound layered over electronic rhythms) while carrying on conversations and sending >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Six Top Israeli Youtubes]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guest Editor -  Yoram Morad]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 2 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS
 
The renewed Israel Museum &ndash; do you have any idea how difficult it is to take a wonderful architectural creation, expand it, change it, and finish off with a wonder of architecture? You can ask James Schneider, the director of the museum. He managed to pull it off. http://www.english.imjnet.org.il/htmls/Home.aspx
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		<title><![CDATA[Psalms for the Perplexed made clear]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[WHAT DOES THE SITE OFFER?
 

    Every song on the album can be played from its own youtube channel, that offers a simultaneous written translation for all the lyrics.
    The songs are all followed by brief footnotes to explain certain references, and for educators >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Etgar Keret meets Jonathan Safran Foer in Jerusalem]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a magical evening.
 
Safran Foyer opened by reading a story he had recently written called &ldquo;Here We Aren't, So Quickly&quot; (The New Yorker, June 14 &amp; 21, 2010). I've tried to download this breathtakingly brilliant and beautiful piece on the internet, but no luck, you have to be >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arabs, Racism, Comedy, and Israeli TV]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In sifting through Jewish pop-culture for golden nuggets that can be used in educational settings, sometimes we here at MediaMidrash come across interesting patterns and trends that inform broader currents in the Jewish world.  Case in point: More and more Israeli comedies seem to be dealing with the issue >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Raging along the edge]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 3 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[MUSIC
Carusella
The day before yesterday no one had heard of them. Yesterday they had already played at the most important music festival in America &ndash; South by SouthWest. Tomorrow, or more precisely on 9th June, they&rsquo;ll be opening for The Pixies in front of tens of thousands at the Yarkon Park. >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guest Editor - Hadara Levin-Areddy]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Born in Jerusalem (8th generation), graduated NYU film school with honors, lived 7 yrs in NYC where her son Adaam ( 21) was born. Directed a feature film at 24, and then returned to Israel where she directed promo's and documentaries, wrote articles for various magazines, and published a poetry >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Bottom Line]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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It was a fair question. More than 80 educators from San Francisco had been listening to and looking at the work of Shay Charka and were both impressed and disturbed. Charka&rsquo;s work was original, charming and sharp. But its sentiments were very much out of line with the assumptions >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[The meeting of Kobi Oz and Limmud UK]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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by Robbie Gringras. 
 
 
At Makom, which works to empower Jewish educators, rabbis, arts and community leaders to develop deep, sophisticated and honest Israel programming, we had a feeling that Kobi Oz's new band, playing the songs he had written while &quot;soaking in the warm marinade of Judaism,&quot; >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guest Editor - Yoram Morad, former Cultural Attache to New York]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Ex Cultural Attache of Israel in Italy, 
Ex Cultural Attache of Israel for N. America ,
Currently in Israel, Coordinator of Cultural and Public affairs in W. Europe. 
A fanatic fan of Israeli contempory art and culture
Find him on Twitter
Find him on facebook. 
Yoram&rsquo;s friends on Facebook receive additional links >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guest Editor - Yoram Morad, former Cultural Attache to New York]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Yoram is entirely lacking in any artistic talent. A dreadful singer, and even worse painter, he cannot dance and his acting skills are non-existent. Not only have his books never been published, they haven&rsquo;t been written either. No wonder he became Israel&rsquo;s Cultural Attache to Rome and then to New >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[With God's Help - the new Eti Ankri]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
This piece first appeared in the Yom Kippur edition of Haaretz
 
by Ben Shalev
 
&quot;Is it okay that I'm talking about these subjects?&quot; asks Etti Ankri. Asked a banal question about the difference between a good performance and a mediocre one, instead of providing a banal answer, she >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guest Editor - Etgar Keret]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Etgar Keret is a world-renowned writer of short stories, graphic novels, TV and film scripts. His books, which are bestsellers in Israel, have also received international acclaim and have been published in 22 languages. His first feature film as a director, Jellyfish ,  won the Camera D&rsquo;Or at >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guest Editor: Shay Charka]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Shay Charka is a comics artist, caricaturist, puppet designer for TV shows and illustrator. Shay regularly publishes a comic series in a children's magazine. So far he has created 10 comics albums. Every week the newspaper Makor Rishon publishes his drawings and caricatures. Shay Charka also illustrates books for a >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Israeli Rock Finds Religion]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robbie Gringras, Makom Artist in Residence
 
&lsquo;I feel like a fish that spent its entire life in an aquarium and has suddenly discovered the sea,&rdquo; Kobi Oz enthuses, prior to going onstage with his new set, &ldquo;Psalms for the Perplexed,&rdquo; all of it written after several years of his >><br>]]>
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