Tmol Shilshom hosts a variety of events in January 2011.
Sunday January 2nd at 19:00
Sara (Susan) Avitzour discusses her memoir And Twice the Marrow of Her Bones
Ten years ago, Avitzour lost her eighteen-year-old daughter Timora to leukemia. Using narrative, a journal, and Timora's poetry, Avitzour draws the reader into her family's world during the "long, wrong years" of her daughter's illness, and into her own emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey in their aftermath. The book addresses topics that range from food to fun to forgiveness, from pain to purpose to prayer - and ultimately to the challenge of affirming faith and love in an unpredictable, and often cruel, universe.
MC: Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi
In English
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Monday January 3rd at 19:00
Professor Michael Bar-Zohar will talk about his latest book Mossad - The Great Operations (written with Nissim Mishal)
MC: Moshe Horowitz
In Hebrew.
About the book:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=188817
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Sunday January 9th at 19:00
Poet and editor Rafi Weichert will talk with three prominent Israeli poets about their works: Israel Eliraz, Benni Shvili and Yoram Verete.
In Hebrew.
Israel Eliraz reads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tb3J_340nU
Benni Shvili reads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ecS1-K01M
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Thursday January 13th at 19:00
Professor Yoram Eshet will talk with Hagit Hof about his book A Man Walks Home
The book is a psychological journey into the nightmares of rehabilitation from a severe brain injury. It tells the story of Yoram Eshet, a young paratrooper who was injured in the Yom Kippur War, lost the ability to read and write and became a senior scientist and a university professor.
Yoram Eshet is a Ph.D in Geology and a Full Professor at the Open University of Israel. Hagit Hof is a poet and a Jungian Therapist.
In Hebrew
A review about the book
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/memoir-the-journey-that-began-with-a-shell-1.323127
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Sunday January 16th at 19:00
Dr. Micah Goodman will discuss his new book The Secrets of The Guide to the Perplexed
Facilitator: Inbar Amir
Maimonides believed that there is a secret, an unknown and inaccessible body of knowledge, the revelation of which is the purpose of life. He believed that his historic role was to uncover this knowledge and pass it on while preserving its secrecy. In the prologue to the Guide to the Perplexed Maimonides calls on his readers to swear that they will refrain from sharing the book's secrets with others. This oath has been broken time and again by wisdom-seekers in every generation, and this book joins this longstanding tradition.
Dr. Micah Goodman is director of Ein Prat - The Academy for Leadership in Alon and a lecturer of Jewish thought at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Wednesday January 19th at 19:00
In The Footsteps of Odysseus
Yotam Ben Moshe, a young man from Jerusalem, embarked last summer on a journey in the footsteps of Odysseus, from the shores of Troy to green Ithaca. His trip was also a spiritual and literary journey, from Shulamit Hareven and Lawrence Durrell to Homer and Sappho.
In Hebrew.
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Tuesday January 25th at 19:00
Dr. Noya Rimalt will speak with Dr. Dafna Hacker about her book
Legal feminism from theory to practice: The struggle for gender equality in Israel and the United States
with Dr. Dafna Hacker
To what extent can the law be used as an effective tool by women in order to advance their status in society? What actual impact has feminist dialogue had on the legal dialogue? Has the feminist aspiration to promote gender equality through specific legal reform been achieved?
In Hebrew.
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Wednesday January 26th at 19:00
Talking Poetry
A celebration of young poets sharing their works. Edited by Itai Akirab and Amir Menasheof.
In Hebrew.
Sunday to Thursday, 8:00 to 2:00; Friday 8:00 to afternoon; Saturday motzaei Shabbat to 2:00
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