03.08.2021 | Jerusalem
It was an unusual Old and New City Jerusalem walking tour led by our good friend Rostik Notkin. We talked about our "double compatriots": Jerusalemites from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
What mark did they leave in the history of the city where they lived? Jerusalem is truly the center of the world.
Probably every nation, every language, every culture can find something of their own here. Our walk was filled with historical figures, events, and places. Rostik shared with us open yards, views, stories, people, houses, cozy places, ancient antiquities, and the latest news. The history and people that we talked about are all part of the history of the Eternal City.
Ilya L.
01.08.2021 | Online
If you want to hear the wisdom of the Great Book of the Jewish people in an unusual, accessible format, with humor and without straining, then this podcast is for you.
You can listen to us here:
Shalom! I enjoy listening to you! It’s such an easy and positive approach to Torah study! Thank you and good luck with this project!
01.08.2021 | Multiregional
Mazal tov to Kirill and Orit on the birth of their baby girl, to Max and Kristina on the birth of their baby boy, to Tanya and Simon on their engagement, and Yulia and David on their marriage !!!
Wishing you all tremendous joy and many more smachot to celebrate in our expanding Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli family!
30.07.2021 | Haifa and North Region
We continue our series of weekly Conversational Ulpan classes with Olga Klein. The new group meets every Monday in Haifa and discusses current events and topics of interest to improve their spoken Hebrew skills.
This course is a fantastic opportunity to prove your language skills and to practice spoken Hebrew! In a friendly environment, we discuss new actual topics and improve our communication skills!
Lidia S.
30.07.2021 | Online
Every week, three of us get together to discuss the weekly parasha, ask questions, suggest answers, be surprised, indignant, in awe, and of course, reflect on the Eternal. We are an orthodox Chabad Rabbi Yigal, a hipster programmer Edik and the cheerful Haifa Director of Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli, Lidia.
Let's see how both religious and secular people understand the Tanach based on their world views and experiences.
If you understand Russian you are more than welcome to find the recordings here:
Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/3dCkNW1
Telegram - https://bit.ly/3m6GArH
I wanted to send you a big thank you! You are doing fantastic work, you are incredible! I’m listening to you in Ufa (Russia) every week, and you motivated me to read Tanach before every podcast edition to increase my understanding! And even more than that, I suddenly feel a need to visit our local synagogue at least once a week. Before that, I felt very distant from Jewish tradition. Thank you so much, and good luck!
Aleksei B.
30.07.2021 | Multiregional
Just a few of our many family simchas this month: Huge Mazal tov to Olesya and Itamar on the birth of their baby girl, and to Moshe and Liya, Uri and Hanna Leya, and Oleg and Evgenia on their marriages!! Blessing you all with long, joyful, healthy lives together in Israel, and many more reasons to celebrate!
29.07.2021 | Tel Aviv and Central Region
Guide Max Izikson took us around the new central bus station of Tel aviv, “Tahana Merkazit.” The area, once named Neve Shaanan, was an exemplary Jewish settlement of peasants, artisans and teachers which evolved into the city of Tel Aviv. But then, something went wrong and today it is inhabited mostly by poor people, foreign workers, refugees, people without a specific residence and occupation. The walls are painted with graffiti, and Central bus station itself hides hundreds of secrets.
Max took us throught the nooks and crannies of this area, the illegal businesses, and criminal arrests which occur regularly and how social services are trying to solve the problems of the district.
We toured old synagogues in the area and observed the architectural frenzy of the new Central bus station, including a closed cinema theater, a market of Philippine cuisine , a bomb shelter for 16 thousand people, a unique old library with Yiddish books. We also spoke for a few minutes with a foreign refugee.
Leonid G.
27.07.2021 | Haifa and North Region
We are back to our regular evenings of board games in a warm and cozy Rodeo bar with fantastic company!
Lidia S.
26.07.2021 | Online
The population of the Middle East is a traditionally variegated mosaic of different peoples and cultures, but for more than a thousand years, Arab cultural identity has been prominent in this region. During the first of two online lectures, guide Mikhail Rudnitsky discussed how for the first time in the history of the Middle East in the last millennium, Israeli Arabs became an ethno-confessional minority in the small independent state of Israel. We learned how their cultural and national identity has changed in recent decades, over the course of his 2.5 hour lecture, with detailed historical facts, dates, pictures, and other meticulously collected information about the entire history of local Arabs and Bedouins.
Leonid G.
25.07.2021 | Tel Aviv and Central Region
ART - BEIT MIDRASH WITH EVGENY SIRUK AND ASIA FIX
July 26th, 2021 - Tel Aviv and Central Region
Asya Fix, an Israeli guide and Jewish educator, and Hebrew teacher and educator Evgeny Siruk began by discussing the Talmud and what makes Beit Midrash learning unique.
In groups of 5-6 people, the participants studied biblical texts and artworks and discussed the relevance of Biblical stories in Jewish society during the 20th century."
The subjects included "The Binding of Isaac,” "Jacob’s Dream", " The Tablets of the Covenant" and "the Prophecy of Isaiah." Three paintings by Israeli artists such as Menashe Kadishman, Moshe Kastel, Naftali Bezem, Ephraim Lilien, Mordechai Ardon and others were selected for each theme. Each group spent 20 minutes working on each topic, and doing various creative tasks. At the end of the session, the participants gathered and discussed the insights and understandings that emerged during their learning together and the artworks that they will remember the most.
I really liked this meeting! I never worked with texts from the Torah before, much less thought about their meaning in Israeli art. Now I hope that Argaman will organize a lecture for people like me who are still new to the history of Israeli art.
Yuriy Y.
“IVRIT-RUSIT” CLOTH ART WORKSHOP
July 12th, 2021 - Tel Aviv and Central Region
Maria Dobrovolskaya, a professional artist and educator, began this workshop by asking everyone to share memories of how we arrived in Israel. What Hebrew words we learned first, what funny stories happened to us because we did not know the language.
After that, we talked about how language reveals a lot about local culture and society. Hebrew words such as "lehitahev" and "tzedaka", with their different root meanings in English and Russian. Then Maria taught us different drawing techniques utilizing text as part of a design idea. We selected the texts and with the help of Maria, transferred it to the clothes.
It was a very warm and cozy evening. We laughed a lot and remembered the first year of our repatriation. Then I fulfilled my dream and transferred a favorite phrase from Tehilim onto aT-shirt.
It's so great when you not only talk, but also do something and enjoy the results for a long time afterwards.
Alena P.
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