Editor’s note: Due to the ongoing security situation, events listed below may be postponed or canceled. Check before booking, and stay safe.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
Watch Martin Scorsese’s classic 1980 black-and-white film Raging Bull, starring Robert De Niro as real-world boxer Jake LaMotta. This movie made Scorsese and Robert De Niro into stars. Part of the Films for English Speakers series, the film is screened in honor of Renen Schorr, the late film director and founder of the Sam Spiegel Film School.
6:30 p.m., Jerusalem Cinematheque, 11 Hebron Rd. NIS 43. Call (02) 565-4333 to book.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
Watch the play Alice, an adaptation by Roee Chen loosely based on the life of Alice Liddell and her odd relationship with Lewis Carroll. This clash between childhood and adulthood is a visually stunning feat.
9 p.m., Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, 3 Menora St. Adults only. NIS 60 per ticket. Call (02) 672-1133 to book. Hebrew performance.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Enjoy the light rail returning to service and explore the urban libraries of Jerusalem, from the one in Beit Hakerem (33 Hechalutz St.) and the Talpaz Library (13 Olei Hagardom St.) to the one in Har Homa (7 Shaul Avigur St.). A new interactive map enables users to discover new hidden libraries, where people leave excellent books for the public to enjoy, all without costing a dime.
Visit https://shorturl.at/vHG1n to see the map.
✱ Get some “Musical Soul Food for the Jewish New Year” with musicologist Aviva Stanislawski at an English-language Zoom lecture. Free. One hour of melody, meaning, and spiritual reflection.
7 p.m. Sign up via: https://musicavivas1.minisite.ms/474?ref=JP or email musicavivas1@gmail.com. The link will be sent two hours before the event.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
Go to the Smadar Cinema and enjoy Monday of Contempt with a guilty pleasure screening of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. This 2010 American romantic fantasy, directed by David Slade and based on the books by Stephanie Meyer, brings the viewer back to the romantic issues of Bella Swan (Kristin Stewart), who must choose between her love of a vampire (Robert Pattinson) and her love of a werewolf (Taylor Lautner). The film cost $70 million to make and made $700m. at the box office.
8 p.m. NIS 30. 4 Lloyd George St. Email yozmatsmadar@gmail.com to book.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Watch a theatrical adaptation of Poems of the Plagues of Egypt. Originally published by Nathan Alterman in 1944, this is a poetic cycle of how the city of Thebes suffered under the wrath of heaven. Alterman presents history as the ashes of all capitals in each generation, and the burning Egyptian cities are said to highlight the betrayal of ministers and show the betrayal of the masses.
Directed by Efim Rinenberg, Mikro Theater will present this vision at Herod’s family tomb for one night only.
8 p.m. Bloomfield Garden. NIS 55 per ticket. Hebrew. Contact officeconnecta@gmail.com to book.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Attend the opening of an exhibition of paintings by the late artist Shmuel Bonneh, titled Painter of the Land of the Bible. The exhibition, curated by Alex D. Epstein, explores the central place of the Bible in Bonneh’s lifelong work as a painter, as well as his memories of the Jewish home and the landscape of the Land of Israel.
5 p.m. Free. Castel Museum, 23 Ha’hatzotzra St., Ma’aleh Adumim. On display until October 29.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Watch a revival of the 1965 musical Man of La Mancha. Written by Dale Wasserman, this play within a play revolves around Miguel de Cervantes, an author and part-time actor, who has been thrown into a dungeon with his manservant for openly lampooning the Spanish Inquisition. In the dungeon, he is subjected to a mock trial, and the other prisoners confiscate many of Cervantes’s belongings, but he seeks to save a mysterious manuscript. The genius of this unusual man shines through, and eventually he is able to prevail.
Loosely based on real events – Cervantes began writing his novel Don Quixote in prison – this musical has one of the most famous songs in musical culture, “The Impossible Dream.”
Beit Mezia Theater, 18 Mesilat Yesharim St. NIS 99 per ticket. 10% discount for seniors and IDF soldiers. Performance in English. Call (02) 533-4561 to book.
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