In Jerusalem

“Twenty years! Hard to believe,” he beams when we meet in his airy office. “I look upon the festival as a child who was born and has grown up,” said Bnaya.

“We’ve had quite a few people from abroad come to play at the club,” notes Philippa Bacal, who has, basically, served as chief cook and bottle washer of the folkie enterprise for the past nine years.

The Taste of the World Festival, newly arrived to Jerusalem, felt similar to the Eurovision village in Tel Aviv for the international music festival earlier this year.

For observant Jews – and few places come more observant than Jerusalem – the Shabbat and Festivals are days out of time.

He started with Tinkertoys, blocks and LEGO. “Everyone knew LEGO was my thing,” he noted. “I could sit and do LEGO all day.”

One of the beauties of living in Israel is how Judaism is very much part of our daily culture.

Sigalit Landau’s monumental ‘Salt Years’ reveals her inner world while addressing wider issues.

“We heard about this project and felt it was a perfect match to the type of projects we create at Mekudeshet,” says the concert honcho.

Technology and sustainability meet at the Diaspora Yeshiva.

The steamroller ethos adopted by European colonialists, and their denigration of other cultures, particularly from the 3rd World, is the theme of a video work by New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana.