At Ramah's three specialty camps, campers pursue their passions within the transformative Jewish communities that have distinguished the Ramah experience for over 70 years.

Land Mine
Film Screening + Discussion
Directed by Tirtza Even
Israel | 2018 | 86 minutes
Friday, February 22 | 7:00 pm
Museum of Modern Art
This experimental documentary about the filmmaker's childhood home, a three-story apartment building in Jerusalem, past and current tenants recall their lives there and what they have witnessed and endured in a turbulent Israel.
In Hebrew with English subtitles


Photo: Rune Abro
Dance
One. One & One (N. Y. Premier)
Vertigo Dance Company
Choreographer Noa Wertheim
March 5th - 6th, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Jerome Robbins Theater
Israel's highly regarded Vertigo Dance Company performs One. One & One, choreographed in celebration of the ensemble's 25th anniversary and set to a powerful score by Avi Belleli. Performed on a dirt-covered stage, the work creates an arresting sensory experience as it explores the individual's desire for wholeness and spiritual connection to the natural world.


Music
Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players
Vadim Gluzman, violin
March 4 | 2:00 pm, 7:30 pm
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church
Max Levinson piano-Vadim Gluzman violin -Kobi Malkin violin-Ayane Kozasa viola-Coleman Itzkoff cello-Xavier Foley double bass-Vadim Lando clarinet-Eric Reed horn-Gina Cuffari bassoon
KORNGOLD Piano Trio in D Major Op. 1
SCHUBERT Octet in F Major D. 803
Written in the highly expressive language of the Viennese fin de siècle after two years of study with Alexander Zemlinsky, the lyrical tunes in a thoroughly modern harmonic language also show evidence of the traditions of Brahms and Strauss. Korngold was born in Moravia, educated in Vienna, and achieved success as a composer of opera and concert music throughout Europe. Upon leaving Nazi Germany, he made a name for himself in Hollywood, and was a pioneer in the development of the classical Hollywood film score, providing music for at least 16 movie scores, two of which won Oscars.


Photo by Gadi Dagon
Dance
DANCE AS CULTURAL DIPLOMAT
Center for Choreography at the University of Akron
March 6 - 10, 2019
Akron, Ohio
This multi-day Dancing Lab will highlight the strength of Israeli dance as a national pastime, and ask questions about its influence on American choreography and how one's national identity informs dance making. NCCAkron will bring Israeli and American artists together to learn from each other, compare notes and share their experiences with audiences through panel discussions, films, and classes.


Dance
One. One & One
Vertigo Dance Company
Choreographer, Noa Wertheim
Saturday, March 9th | 7:30 pm
Ohio Theatre CLEVELAND
Grounded and organic yet driven and unyielding, Vertigo's dancers attack the contemporary movement with an honesty that engages audience members to feel the vulnerability of emotions being unpacked onstage. One of Israel's most highly regarded contemporary dance companies; Vertigo takes the viewer on an exciting and challenging journey into unfamiliar territories with every performance. The company strives to bring people closer together and touch them through the language of the body and movement, which can be felt from their powerful performances.


Theater
Fiddler On The Roof (A Fidler Afn Dakh)
Translator Shraga Friedman
February 21, 2019 thru June 2019
Stage 42 @ The Little Shubert Theatre
Don't miss the beloved story of a community and its struggle to balance traditions and desires in a changing world. The little town of Anatevka will bustle with the sounds of mame-loshn in the Yiddish language adaptation of Fiddler.
With direction by Oscar and Tony Award®-winner Joel Grey and the Yiddish translation by Shraga Friedman, this production has been hailed as "a richer, deeper interpretation" by The Wall Street Journal, "a mitzvah" by Time Out New York, and AM New York gives it four stars, calling Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish "perfect."
Performed in Yiddish with English and Russian subtitles.


Dance
Decadance/Chicago
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Choreographer, Ohad Naharin
March 6 thru March 17, 2019
The Joyce Theater
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns with two thrilling programs of contemporary dance. The first week features Decadance/Chicago, an evening-length performance combines excerpts from works by Ohad Naharin which were arranged specifically for Hubbard Street by the world renowned Israeli choreographer. The second week celebrates Crystal Pite, one of today's most sought after and inventive choreographers, with three of her most exciting works: A Picture of You Falling, The Other You, and Grace Engine.


Music
A-WA
Yemenite Israeli Sister Trio
February 26th, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Baby's All Right Brooklyn, NY
Band Members: Tair Haim, Liron Haim, Tagel Haim, Noam Havkin, Yiftach Shahaf , Nitzan Eisenberg, Tal Cohen
The Yemenite-Israeli sister trio Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim, also known as A-WA that took the world by storm sing in the Yemenite Arabic dialect while mixing electronic dance music and hip-hop beats with folkloric and original melodies. Growing up in the remote village of Shaharut in the Arava valley gave way for a unique childhood with the bare desert landscape acting as a blank canvas for their creativity.


Music
Pinchas Zukerman's 70th Birthday Celebration Concert
Wednesday, March 20 | 7:30 pm
Neidorff-Karpati Hall Manhattan School of Music
A concert celebrating Pinchas Zukerman on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Manhattan School of Music's Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program and his 70th Birthday. The concert will feature performances by Professor Zukerman's current and former students and distinguished colleagues.


Film
Working Woman
Director Michal Aviad
Israel | 2018 | 93 minutes
February 28th - March 3rd, 2019
Glicker-Milstein Theatre Barnard College
The Athena Film Festival's pick, Working Woman, follows Orna's life at work which becomes unbearable when her boss, a major Israeli developer, makes inappropriate advances. Caught between the need to support her family and the increasingly disturbing behavior of her boss, Orna fights for her job and her sense of self-worth.
Hebrew with English subtitles


Artist Conversation
Third Body: artist Roey Victoria Heifetz and scholar Yarden Stern in conversation
Sunday, Mar. 3 | 1:00 - 3:00 pm
East Village, NYC (Address upon RSVP)
A conversation between artist Roey Victoria Heifetz and Yarden Stern, independent curator and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU. Heifetz will speak about her new body of work, Third Body, recently presented at the Artist House Tel Aviv upon receiving the Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize for Visual Art in Israel in 2018. Third Body is a series of large scale drawings of Heifetz and a video installation made in collaboration with filmmaker Zohar Melinek Ezra, that pose challenging questions about the "transgender body", and the body in general. Heifetz and Stern will discuss topics that emerge from the work, such as gender change, anxieties, old age, regret, femininity, motherhood, pain and fear - of oneself and of society.



Art
Litvak Contemporary Art
VOLTA NY Art Fair 2019
Painter, Dana Pakman +
Photographer, Boaz Aharonovitch
March 6th thru March 10th, 2019
Pier 90 NYC
Litvak Contemporary is proud to announce its participation in Volta NY Art Fair 2019, featuring photographer Boaz Aharonovitch and painter Dana Pakman.
Both artists use different mediums to control and shape time. Capturing an imaginary, yet precise, moment in each of Pakman's paintings while Aharonovich simultaneously represents multiple moments of time in each photograph. Both artists attempt to step out of Chronos, known as linear time, and to live in Kairos, the proper or opportune time for action.



Theater
The Band's Visit
2018 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical
Music & Lyrics, David Yazbek
Ending April 7th, 2019
Barrymore Theatre
THE BAND'S VISIT is the winner of 10 Tony Awards, making it one of the most Tony-winning musicals in history. It is also a 2019 Grammy Awards® winner for Best Musical Theater Album. In this delightfully offbeat story, set in a town that's way off the beaten path, a band of musicians arrive lost, out of the blue. Under the spell of the desert sky, and with beautiful music perfuming the air, the band brings the town to life in unexpected and tantalizing ways. Even the briefest visit can stay with you forever.


Exhibition
Sol
Artist, Daniel Rozin
February 8th - March 17th, 2019
bitforms gallery, New York
Israeli-American artist, Daniel Rozin. Sol probes the relationship between the function of natural and mechanical structures. The exhibited works employ a combination of custom software and organic materials to mimic and interact with the viewer's body in space. Rozin uses mirroring to nurture the mechanisms of performance, calling for the audience to contemplate the reflection of their gestures.