MONTREAL A piece of Montreal singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen s musical legacy has taken centre stage far away, in Tel Aviv, Israel, at the ANU Museum of the Jewish People. That particular guitar has special significance in Israel. Cohen played it in his final concert in the country in 2009. During this concert, he said a prayer in Hebrew, said chief curator Orit Shaham-Gover. It s a memorable moment for every Israeli. Shaham-Gover said it took the museum three and a half years to track down the guitar for the exhibit. Eventually we got it, said Shaham-Gover. It is here. For everyone who comes to the museum, it s really a very touching thing to see it.
Iconic Leonard Cohen guitar features at newly expanded museum in Tel Aviv
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Israel revs up to reopen for tourism
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Israel revs up to reopen for tourism
Until then, work on your bucket list. Or, as Sara Salansky, a senior official in Israel’s Ministry of Tourism, says: Our slogan is “Dream now, travel later.”
(March 15, 2021 / JNS) Bring us your tired, your down-clad and pandemic-weary souls yearning to breathe … a lungful of Israeli air.
With apologies to Emma Lazarus and her poem “The New Colossus” that adorns the Statue of Liberty, for many, that yearning to be in Israel even the glimmer of a hope to be able to make the trip can come down to a particular sight or sound, smell or taste that’s a welcome balm to today’s COVID weary world (see below for some experiences guaranteed to whet your appetite).
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Mar. 14, 2021
After a decade-long revamp, Beth Hatfutsot Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, a mainstay of the Tel Aviv University campus, has reopened as ANU – Museum of the Jewish People. (Anu means “us” in Hebrew.) The only thing missing was a dedication, another casualty of the coronavirus crisis.
The museum contains an extensive exhibition on Jewish history and communities – from Iceland to the Philippines – not to mention the luminaries. It also displays works by Jewish artists, as well as contemporary and antique Judaica.
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A visitor at the renovated ANU Museum, inside Tel Aviv s University s campus, last week.Credit: Hadas Parush