No energy to contemplate, just report. Frankly the day was so remarkable, I'd rather just outline what we did than do a poor job of describing the actual experience.
This morning started at the movies. A film historian (didn't catch his name, sorry) met us at the Cinemateque and presented excerpts from five Israeli movies (1967 to 2004) portraying the lives of different religious and secular communities of Israel. We watched actor Assi Dayan (son of Moshe) play everything from a kibbutznik-James Dean role to a religious Zionist rabbi.
We next met author David Ehrlich at his home in Beit haKerem to talk about the art of writing, to ask questions about the short stories of his we'd read, and to hear about the life of a writer in Jerusalem.
Then Machane Yehudah (the open air market) for lunch. One last falafel.
Then Linda Zisquit's home and "Artspace" gallery in the German Colony. She fed us (and we are SO fed at this point) toured us through the group exhibition of Israeli artists, talked about working as a translator and giving voice in English to Israeli poets and gallery space to various painters and sculptors. She read from her own poetry and from Rivka Miriam's work. These Mountains, Linda's translations of Rivka's poetry -- a 30-year process -- is being published this month by Toby Press).
I went back to visit with David some more, others did some shopping or resting, while others went with Lee, our tourguide, to visit the Israel Museum and see the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Closing dinner was at an excellent Lebanese restaurant in the village of Abu Gosh.
Drinks in the lobby and now time to pack.
Shavuot starts when?
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