In a couple of short verses, the Ethiopian Israeli hip-hop artist Kalkidan Mashasha mentions Bob Marley, Maimonides, and René Descartes in quick succession. Like the painter Kehinde Wiley—whose portrait of the performer is currently on view at The Jewish Museum—Kalkidan’s artistic process embraces hybrid cultures and a remix of past and present. His music confronts his country’s political struggles and his raps are sometimes deemed too controversial for mainstream Israeli radio, yet they also express the vibrant diversity of modern-day Israel.
The day before his New York debut, in a concert at The Jewish Museum, Kalkidan enters the museum carrying two books: a compilation of the writings of the eighteenth-century Hasidic philosopher Nachman of Breslov and a notebook brimming with scrawled fragments of Hebrew text. Kalkidan often interweaves biblical allusions and snippets of liturgy with his personal experiences to create his syncopated, multilayered poetry.
Hester Street, with its open-air pushcart market, was once the bustlingcenter of immigrant Jewish life on the Lower East Side. By the 1940s, many vendors had moved their wares indoors. In 1945 
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Eating the seven edible plant species of Israel mentioned in the Torah (wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates) can remind us to protect and care for the earth. Israeli artist 
Jewish Museum Director Claudia Gould and Film Society of Lincoln Center Executive Director Rose Kuo officially opened the festival, emphasizing the long-lasting partnership of the two organizations.
Moshonov spoke of the process of learning to play the role of an autistic boy for his role in the film. Guests in attendance praised Moshonov for brilliantly capturing the role as well as the overall emotional impact of the film. Moshonov told the audience about his next project, a film in which he stars that tells of a Jewish Chabad house in Nepal. Berman-Herzberg is also working on several interesting scripts in collaboration with Guy Nattiv, who directed Mabul.
The Feast of San Gennaro is an annual celebration of the patron saint of Naples. Celebrated for centuries in Italy, the festival first took place in New York City in 1926, shortly after Neapolitan immigrants settled on Mulberry Street in what soon became the heart of Little Italy. Since then, the modest holiday has become an eleven-day gala that turns Mulberry Street into a spectacle of lights, music, food and pageantry.
While darkroom volunteers processed the contestants’ negatives and printed the best pictures taken that day, Photo Hunters were treated to spaghetti suppers, drinks, music and dancing. “Swell entertainment” for the evening might include the calypso dancer Belle Rosette, a young comedian named Zero Mostel, or folk singer Pete Seeger.