Intimate Grammar

At Beit Avi Chai we saw the movie of David Grossman's book "Intimate Grammar," followed by a short, not terribly informative, lecture. Now I'll look for the book to find out things like whether the family's refrigerator is as prominant as in the film.

The municipality's strike are over, although all the mayor got in return was a meeting with the Prime Minister. When garbage is usually collected several times a week, a pause in collection quickly causes piles of garbage bags and bits and pieces.

Copyright 2017 Jane S. fox

Poetry Set to Music

Wednesday night we had tickets at Bet AviChai (bac.co.il) only because we'd been given discount coupons after a Tuesday night lecture.

That lecture was a fascinating account of the real ship Exodus (as apposed to Leon Uris's novelized composite of several ships and romance, which later became a popular movie). Much more is known now that governments have released documents kept classified for decades.

After the lecture Michael dropped his cellphone from two flights up. The seven-year-old phone made by a company called Tellit worked just fine after I put it back together again.

Wednesday night was poetry. We were a bit apprehensive, but it turned out to be classic poets (Bialik, Altermann, and the like) plus some we'd never heard of, many set to music. The poem about the solar water heater and the antenna was new to us. The singers were so good that I think even listeners who understood no Hebrew would have enjoyed the performance.

We are now on the BetAviChai mailing list, so se won't be dependent on my noticing posters for their events or being handed a flyer at one event for another one. As with other Jerusalem venues, performances don't always seem to appear on the website when I'm looking.

Copyright 2013 Jane Schulzinger Fox