BEIT AVI CHAI

Schedule

September October 2017

Time Event Details Admission

Friday, September 1st, In-depth Field Trips What have you here and Admission to the
9:00 AM-1:00 PM in Jerusalem who have you here that you trip: 60 NIS,
hew yourself a grave here? students 30 NIS
Burial sites and graves during
First Temple times.
A visit to the burial sites at
the St. Etienne Monastery
and the Hinom Valley.

Please bring a hat, water and

a Tenach. We will let you
know the meeting point.
Friday, September 1st, A Voyage to the The Diwan Project, Mark Admission 40 NIS,
2:00 PM Song of Songs Eliyahu, David Menachem, students 20 NIS
Rabbanit Hadassah Froman
Kabbalat Shabbat and poetess Batel Coleman
The event will be
inspired by the Song Artistic Direction: Gil Ron
broadcast live on
of Songs Shema
the Beit Avi Chai
Musical Direction: Alon
website
Amano Campino
Another show, by popular
request
Monday, September Out of This World A series of sessions about Admission per
4th, 8:00 PM the hidden world of Haredi session: 20 NIS
Session 1 cinema, which will open a Admission to all 5
window to this fascinating sessions: 80 NIS
space of connections and
 identities.
We will host the dominant
creators in the Haredi film
industry, watch rare footage
and follow the development
of Haredi film from its
inception to the present day.
Series Editor: Marlene
Vanig, researcher, Hareidi
Film

Session #1: The Relationship

between Haredi Cinema and
Israeli Cinema
On the riveting reciprocity
between the two worlds and
on the unique language of
Hareidi cinema, a language
that sways between ultra-
Orthodoxy and Israeli,
providing the viewer with a
glimpse of the ever-
interesting Hareidi culture.
Guest Director: Rama
Burshtein
Tuesday, September Stories in Mono The popular series returns Admission: 60 NIS,
5th, 9:00 PM Songs and the for a fifth season with students 30 NIS
Stories behind Them intimate performances, one-
on-one with Yoav Kutner and The event will be
Shlomi Saranga questions from the broadcast live on
Hosts his sister, Suzy audience. the Beit Avi Chai
Saranga Kalif website
This seasons program will
examine the artists
 connection to those closest
to them, their roots and the
creative process.
Moderator: Yoav Kutner
Wednesday, The Balfour With a single paragraph, Admission: 30 NIS
September 6th, Declaration: The "The Balfour Declaration"
8:00pm High Point of British became a seminal document
The event will be
Zionism? that led to the establishment
broadcast live on
of the State of Israel. What is
the Beit Avi Chai
its significance and influence
website
today? What lessons can still
be learned to help pave the
way to resolve the Arab-
Israeli conflict?
Melanie Phillips, prominent
Journalist and Commentator
Chairman: Herb Keinon,
Diplomatic Correspondent of
the Jerusalem Post
In conjunction with The
Jewish Historical Society of
England (Israel Branch)
The program will be in
English.
Sunday, September A Spade for Digging A year-long series of lectures Admission to the
9th, 8:00 PM The Torah and and field digs with Bible session: 20 NIS
Archeological scholar Dr. Nili Wazana and
Discoveries archeologist Dr. Doron Ben
Ami on the interface
between Torah and
archeology.

Session 11: Devarim

I will place a king upon me
 like all the nations around
me
The start of the monarchy in
Israel in light of Biblical
tradition and through the
prism of archeological
findings
Monday, September Teshuva in our Time Is a personal struggle with Admission: 20 NIS
11th, 8:00pm Is Teshuva possible? Teshuva able to impact
Can one truly repent wider society? The event will be
and change? Or is this all a futile effort broadcast live on
that repeats itself year after the Beit Avi Chai
year? website
Join legendary educator
Rabbi Dr. Chaim Brovender
as he confronts these
questions.
The program will be in
English.
Wednesday, Hatikva from Herzl A multi-disciplinary voyage Admission: 60 NIS,
September 13th, 8:30 to Subliminal around the national anthem: students 30 NIS
PM A fascinating show from the Diaspora to Israel,
in light of a from the Poles to the
revolutionary study, Rumanians, from prayers to
with pianist Dr. protest, from folk songs to
Astrith Baltsan the concert hall, from
Mozart to Chopin and
Smetana, from Herzl to
Subliminal
Dr. Astrith Baltsan, well-
known pianist and musician,
has created an original
concert model combining
classical with multi-media,
 which has become a raging
global success. Her research
and Hatikva Show have
been awarded prizes by the
Minister of Education, the
Minister of Culture and the
IDF.
This show marks her 300th
performance 17 countries,
5 continents and in 4
languages.
Gifted pianist Astrith
Baltsan tells a spine-chilling,
all-embracing story,
transforming her Hatikva
show into a real drama and
an incomparable and riveting
evening. I admit it: I was
moved to tears. Astriths
show is a must. You cannot
but be moved by it. The
tears just flow by themselves
as you hear her stroke the
keys. (Ilan Kfir, Channel 2)
Thursday, September Grape Harvest 2016- Yismach Hatani (92 minutes) Admission: 20 NIS,
14th, 8:00 PM 17 Director: Emil Ben Shimon including popcorn
Israeli Film After the screening:
Screenings in the Womens Section Miriam
Courtyard Benayoun Golan and Tehila
Freedman Nahlon speak
without barriers
Thursday, September Requests for the The evening will be devoted Admission free,
14th, 9:00 PM Soul to the works of Almog Behar subject to
An evening and focus on his most recent availability.
 dedicated to the book, Poems for Prisoners;
work of poet and an intensely expressive
author Almog Behar poetic voyage between the
personal and the national,
between jail and freedom,
between Arabic and Hebrew.
Editor and moderator: Yali
Shner
With Almog Behar
Music: Ecoute (with songs
from their new album
Weve Talked about Love
Enough)
The film Ana Min Al-
Yahud, (Israel, 17:46
minutes, 2017) directed by
Aharon Shem Tov and Niv
Hachlili, will also be
screened during the evening.
Sunday, September The 10th Piyut The magnificent ancient Admission: 100
24th, 8:00 PM Festival Hebrew poetry of Solomon NIS, Students: 50
Inb Gabirol comes alive in NIS
Adumey Hasefatot the 21st Century
Barry Sakharof, Rabbi Haim The event will be
Louk, Micha Shitrit, Shai broadcast live on
Tsabari, Haviva Pedaya and the Beit Avi Chai
Bacol Serlui website
Musical
Direction/Arrangements:
Rea Mochiach
Sunday, September The 10th Piyut Talia Alaev, Shalom Gad, Admission: 60 NIS,
24th, 10:30 PM Festival Neomi Hashmonay, Yehu Students: 30 NIS
Yaron, Shani Peleg
To Rise and to Artistic Direction: Shira Z.
 Sing Indi Piyut Carmel
Monday, September The 10th Piyut In memory of composer and Admission: 50 NIS,
25th, 7:30 PM Festival musicologist Andr Hajdu Students: 30 NIS
The Oman Chai Ensemble,
The Creator and the Shem-Tov Levi, Rabbi Daniel
Created Epstein and others
Monday, September The 10th Piyut Peretz Eliyahu presents Admission: 100
25th, 9:00 PM Festival original musical NIS, Students: 50
interpretations of ancient NIS
Seasons scriptures and wisdom
The Peretz Eliyahu Ensemble The event will be
Mark Eliyahu broadcast live on
David Menachem and the Beit Avi Chai
Lubana Salama website
Tuesday, September The 10th Piyut The Hiba Orchestra with a Admission: 80 NIS,
26th, 8:00 PM Festival tribute to contemporary Students: 40 NIS
composers
Piyut in Israeli Mor Karbasi, Morin The event will be
Maqam Nehadar, Neta Elkayam, broadcast live on
Inbal Djamshid the Beit Avi Chai
Musical Direction: Elad website
Gabay
Tuesday, September The 10th Piyut Performed by Kehilot Sharot Admission free,
26th, 10:00 PM Festival Artistic Direction: Maimon subject to
Meni Cohen availability.
The Paytan Hidden
from the Eye
Wednesday, The 10th Piyut Naor Carmi and Chilik Frank Admission: 80 NIS,
September 27th, 8:00 Festival and their Students: 40 NIS
PM Hassidic/Gypsy/Middle East
Hassidut in the band reveal new and The event will be
Middle East beloved Hassidic sounds. broadcast live on
With guest Shlomo Gronich the Beit Avi Chai
website
Wednesday, The 10th Piyut Leonard Cohens World of Admission: 60 NIS,
September 27th, 10:00 Festival Prayer Students: 30 NIS
PM Avraham Cohen, Yankele
Broken Prayers Segal, Roni Ivrin, Shlomo Oz
and others
Thursday, September The 10th Piyut Prayers of Ethiopian Jewry Admission: 50 NIS,
28th, 7:00 PM Festival meet the Hebrew language Students: 30 NIS
Spiritual leaders and artists
Yearnings for from Israel's Ethiopian
Yerusalem community
Thursday, September The 10th Piyut Ravid Kahalani and Omer Admission: 100
28th, 9:00 PM Festival Avital in an original NIS, Students: 50
performance of Hallel with NIS
Of Praise and guest performers.
Thanksgiving The event will be
broadcast live on
the Beit Avi Chai
website
Sunday, October 1st, The Lunar Legends For the month of Tishrei Admission: 30 NIS
5:00 PM Series per child,
The Woman and the A woman demands justice accompanying
Wind from the wind, which adult 10 NIS
snatched her last piece of
bread.
Monday, October 2nd, The Lunar Legends For the month of Tishrei Admission: 30 NIS
5:00 PM Series per child,
The Woman and the A woman demands justice accompanying
Wind from the wind, which adult 10 NIS
snatched her last piece of
bread.
Monday, October 2nd, Out of This World A series of sessions about Admission per
8:00 PM the hidden world of Haredi session: 20 NIS
Session 2 cinema, which will open a Admission to all 5
window to this fascinating sessions: 80 NIS
 space of connections and
identities.
We will host the dominant
creators in the Haredi film
industry, watch rare footage
and follow the development
of Haredi film from its
inception to the present day.
Series Editor: Marlene
Vanig, researcher, Hareidi
Film

Session #2: Hareidi Culture

in Film
How are the films direction
and poetic language affected
by religious identity? On the
characteristics of the
superhero presented in
Hareidi film and the role of
Halacha in such art.
Guest Director: Efrat Shalom
Danon
Tuesday, October 3rd, The Lunar Legends For the month of Tishrei Admission: 30 NIS
4:30 PM, 6:00 PM Series per child,
The Woman and the A woman demands justice accompanying
Wind from the wind, which adult 10 NIS
snatched her last piece of
bread.
Sunday, October 8th, Sukkot for Children Each activity incudes the Admission to play
10:00 AM, 12:30 PM at Beit Avi Chai play and a creative and creative
workshop workshop: 25 NIS.
Saul Story Hour + 5 NIS,
A play about the first King of accompanying
 Israel. Struggles over adult: 10 NIS
kingship, desert chases and
the magic of music.
Age 5 and above
Creative Workshop
Building and decorating
miniature wooden Sukkot
Desert Story Hour in
the Sukkah: With
author Yaara Inbar
and her book A
Path of Little Feet.
Joint reading
accompanied by a
flautist and kinetic
sand art.
Admission + 5 NIS
Reading Corner in
the Library: come
and read books
about houses,
Sukkot, tents,
nature, deserts and
more
Huge Artistic Sukkah
in the Courtyard
Tasty food for
parents and children
in the cafeteria
Tuesday, October To Slip through a In his books, Adaf one of Admission: 20 NIS
10th, 8:00 PM Crack in the the most prominent writers
Universe in the young guard of
An evening of Hebrew literature skillfully
tribute to author sketches wild and teasing
 Shimon Adaf prose. His leading
characters, sent on a
detective or other mission,
create a link between past
and future, autobiography
and invention, mythology,
philosophy and politics. Adaf
is adept at multi-level use of
awareness and emption, and
through imaginary plots he is
able to tell a sad, human
story, the likes of which
youve never heard before.

The evening will focus on

Shimon Adafs two recent
books, Get up and Read
and Shadrach.
Shimon Adaf chats with
Bilha Ben-Eliahu, Kerem
Institute Jerusalem and
David Yellin College
Music: Eran Tzur
Monday, October 9th, Sukkot for Children Each activity incudes the Admission to play
10:00 AM, 12:30 PM at Beit Avi Chai play and a creative and creative
workshop workshop: 25 NIS.
Saul Story Hour + 5 NIS,
A play about the first King of accompanying
Israel. Struggles over adult: 10 NIS
kingship, desert chases and
the magic of music.
Age 5 and above
Creative Workshop
Building and decorating
 miniature wooden Sukkot
Desert Story Hour in
the Sukkah: With
author Yaara Inbar
and her book A
Path of Little Feet.
Joint reading
accompanied by a
flautist and kinetic
sand art.
Admission + 5 NIS
Reading Corner in
the Library: come
and read books
about houses,
Sukkot, tents,
nature, deserts and
more
Huge Artistic Sukkah
in the Courtyard
Tasty food for
parents and children
in the cafeteria
Tuesday, October Sukkot for Children Each activity incudes the Admission to play
10th, 10:00 AM at Beit Avi Chai play and a creative and creative
workshop workshop: 25 NIS.
Saul Story Hour + 5 NIS,
A play about the first King of accompanying
Israel. Struggles over adult: 10 NIS
kingship, desert chases and
the magic of music.
Age 5 and above
Creative Workshop
Building and decorating
 miniature wooden Sukkot
Desert Story Hour in
the Sukkah: With
author Yaara Inbar
and her book A
Path of Little Feet.
Joint reading
accompanied by a
flautist and kinetic
sand art.
Admission + 5 NIS
Reading Corner in
the Library: come
and read books
about houses,
Sukkot, tents,
nature, deserts and
more
Huge Artistic Sukkah
in the Courtyard
Tasty food for
parents and children
in the cafeteria
Tuesday, October Night Harvest Ending Sukkot with a Admission: 30 NIS
10th, 9:00 PM Hoshana Rabba at celebratory night of Admission to the
Beit Avi Chai seasonal changes in nature, two shows: 60 NIS
the body, the soul and the
spirit
The City and the
Forest Opening
A singing circle dedicated to
Event
the publication of the book
The Baal Shem Tov: The
Man who Came from the
Forest
 With the Orot Band, Dov
Elboim, Ron Melzer, Roi
Horn
Tuesday, October Night Harvest Other events during the Admission subject
10th, between 10:30 Hoshana Rabba at night: to availability for
PM-2:00 AM Beit Avi Chai It All Leads to One Place ticket holders for
Corinne Elal sings and talks the opening event,
Kohelet the closing show,
or both.
Study Sessions in the Library
Dr. Nili Wazana, Rav Amnon
Dokov, Elchanan Nir

Workshops
Ecopoetry with Alex Ben Ari,
Chi Kung, medicinal herbs

Beating Willows
Performance shows by the
C.a.t.a.m.o.n Dance Group
Tuesday October 10th, Night Harvest Ending Sukkot with a Admission: 40 NIS
1:30 AM Hoshana Rabba at celebratory night of Admission to the
Beit Avi Chai seasonal changes in nature, two shows: 60 NIS
the body, the soul and the
spirit
Closing Show: On The event will be
the Handles of the broadcast live on
Shuli Rand and Oy Division
Lock the Beit Avi Chai
in a special show
website

Thursday, October Sefer Bereshit - Dr. Aviva Zornberg, noted Admission: 20 NIS
19th, 8:30 PM Genesis author and lecturer Entire Series
From the (Purchased in
Murmuring Deep: We will study the book of Advance): 160 NIS
The Beginning. Genesis and see the
 dramatic unfolding of The event will be
Parshat Noach individuals and families, of broadcast live on
God and humanity, of the Beit Avi Chai
conflict and complexity. website
From this narrative, a
national future will emerge.
As we study midrashic and
Hassidic reflections, we will
listen for their resonance in
the depths of human
experience. Somewhere
between language and
silence, a murmur becomes
audible.
Sunday, October 22nd, Non-Fiction Kicking off the Month events Admission free,
8:00 PM From the Four to accompany 2018 will subject to
Corners of the Earth attempt to open a window availability
Jewish Communities to Jewish communities
around the World across the globe. Every Rosh The event will be
Chodesh we will be exposed broadcast live on
Cheshvan: Buenos to interesting stories, the Beit Avi Chai
Aires historical events or unusual website
customs of a different Jewish
community.
Cheshvan: Buenos Aires
Ilan Sheinfeld, author of
The Story of a Ring, about
the criminal Zvi Migdal
pimps and prostitutes group
that operated in Argentina
and about the special
community the group
established in Buenos Aires.
Historian Prof. Raanan Rein,
 Vice-President of Tel Aviv
University, on relations
between Israel and
Argentina following the
Eichmann kidnapping and
the effect that had on the
status of the local Jewish
community.
Moderator: Tal Rosner
Wednesday, October Story Show Noams Store of Words Admission: 30 NIS,
25th, 5:00 PM A literary-musical Every night, Noam dreams a accompanying
encounter new word. In the morning, adult free
he wants to tell the children
in his kindergarten about the
word he dreamed of, but he
cant remember it.

A musical story show with

author Ruvik Rosenthal and
a joint reading of his book
Noams Store of Words

Editor and Moderator: Sarit

Zussman
Music: Moriel Hoffman
Ages 4-8
Thursday, October Sefer Bereshit - Dr. Aviva Zornberg, noted
26th, 8:30 PM Genesis author and lecturer
From the
Murmuring Deep: We will study the book of
The Beginning. Genesis and see the
dramatic unfolding of
Parshat Lech Lecha individuals and families, of
God and humanity, of
Admission: 20 NIS
Entire Series
(Purchased in
Advance): 160 NIS
The event will be
broadcast live on
the Beit Avi Chai
 conflict and complexity. website
From this narrative, a
national future will emerge.
As we study midrashic and
Hassidic reflections, we will
listen for their resonance in
the depths of human
experience. Somewhere
between language and
silence, a murmur becomes
audible.
The series will be in English.
Thursday, October Stories in Mono The popular series returns Admission: 60 NIS,
26st , 9:00 PM Songs and the for a fifth season with students 30 NIS
Stories behind Them intimate performances, one-
on-one with Yoav Kutner and The event will be
Hanan Ben Ari questions from the broadcast live on
Hosts poet Roi audience. the Beit Avi Chai
Hassan website
This seasons program will
examine the artists
connection to those closest
to them, their roots and the
creative process.
Moderator: Yoav Kutner
Sunday, October 29th, Biblical Figures Key Biblical characters Admission per
8:00 PM appearing in Midrash, session: 20 NIS
Moses Aggadah, literature and Admission for
poetry. whole series: 100
With author Prof. Haim NIS
Beer and Prof. Hananel
Mack The event will be
A follow-up series to People broadcast live on
of Bereishit and First the Beit Avi Chai
 Kings, in which we dealt in website
depth with the heroes of
Bereishit and the Kings of
Israel and Judah. This series,
the third, will examine
another group of familiar
characters and shed light
upon them from new
perspectives.
Musical accompaniment:
Efrat Apter
Tuesday, October 31st, David A new play for children in Admission: 30 NIS
5:00 PM the Kings series per child,
An original Beit Avi Chai accompanying
childrens production adult 10 NIS
Moments The opening of a Admission free
photographic exhibition
from Beit Avi Chais photo
collection moments
captured by the camera at
Beit Avi Chai events over the
last decade.
Curator: Dana Bar Siman Tov
Art and Design: Dov
Abramson Studio