We are thrilled to be hosting Israeli Tour Guide and Expert Jewish Educator Uri Feinberg.
We will be interrupting our regular Wednesday morning class to offer a session with Uri offering us an opportunity to reflect on the way that Israel has responded to October 7th through cultural and artistic expressions.
“When the melody doesn't change but the words make all the difference: an iconic song hits a powerful chord, opens our souls even as we find the writing of the prophets written in more place than one.”
A historic journey that begins as the dust settles following the Yom Kippur War will find a ground zero of our melodic walk down memory lane. The Last War will make way for its juxtaposed response in a day of optimism and new direction 20 years later in 1994, with We are the Children of the Winter of 73. This powerful response, voiced by the generation born in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, will serve as a baseline for the expression that will explode in the wake of October 7, more than once. While much will be familiar about this song, even as it is re-born with new words in such an unprecedented and painful reality, it will project its voice in unbounded ways, expressing Israel’s pride and awe, anger and pain. Our discussion will continue through more than one cultural medium as we also decipher the words and images found on the walls of south Tel Aviv. We will use the street art for another insider’s perspective of where Israelis are ‘at’, at this continuously unique and painful moment in time, as well as recognize that the words of the prophets are written on more than one kind of canvas.
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