The Israeli Embassy in Washington presents:

FILM 

An Average Story | DC Shorts Film Festival

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 2016
7:30 PM — 9:30 PM
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 2016
5:00 PM — 7:00 PM
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 2016
7:00 PM — 9:00 PM
E Street Cinema, DC

When Avi Cohen is told by the Central Bureau of Statistics that he is the most average man who ever lived, his life is turned upside down. Directed by Yaniv Segalovich. To read more, click here.

Encirclements

September 28th, 8pm 
Avalon Theatre, DC

The belief that he who carries the Torah may ask God for anything on behalf of others can elevate Aharon’s status in the neighborhood and win his distant father’s approval and love.To read more, click here.

LECTURE

King Herod’s Harbor Temple at Caesarea Maritima
Kenneth Holum | University of Maryland

September 21st, 8pm
JCC GW Rockville
 
Caesarea Maritima is a fascinating archaeological site that continues to spring surprises on the public and the scholarly world, including recent finds of Islamic coins and Roman sculpture from the Mediterranean. Beyond these “blockbuster” discoveries reported in the press, work has continued on the site of the great pagan temple that King Herod dedicated to the goddess Roma and to the Roman emperor as a god. To read more, click here. 

LITERATURE AND POETRY 

Fiction gets real: writing in Israel today, with Etgar Keret

September 26th, 7pm
American University DC, SIS building, Abramson Family Founders room
 
Israeli author Etgar Keret will discuss writing in Israel today and read from his personal work in this installment of the Center for Israel Studies' Israeli Writers series. The lecture will be followed by a book-signing reception. To read more, click here.

The Thirteenth hour

September 9th, 12pm
Library of Congress, Pickford Theater, Madison Building
 
The poetry of Rivka Basman Ben-Haim, translated from the Yiddish by Zelda Kahan Newman.
Rivka Basman Ben-Haim, Israeli award winning Yiddish poet, is one of the last representatives of the golden age of Yiddish poetry. A reading and discussion with the translator. To read more, click here.

DANCE 

Zvi Dance, On the Road

September 9-10, 2016  8pm
American Dance Institute, Rockville MD

“One does not just watch a dance by Zvi Gotheiner. One enters a world with its own internal logic, a sensual, organic world of movement, language, and images where one is pulled along by currents unseen and inevitable.” Dance magazine.To read more click here.