Entries from January 2009

January 30, 2009

Drifting Into the Harbor: In the Studio with Roi Kuper

January 30, 2009–The Jerusalem Post

As I sit in the studio of photographer Roi Kuper, he reads aloud from “It’s the Dream,” a poem by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge: “It’s the dream we carry/that something wondrous will happen… that one morning we’ll quietly drift/into a harbor we didn’t know was there.”
“His poem says [...]

January 28, 2009

Unprejudiced: A Jane Austen classic reset in the Galilee

January 27, 2009– Nextbook
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” So begins Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Though rife with Victorian frills, the book has aged remarkably well in the 200 years since it was published, and has been [...]

January 6, 2009

Baring Body and Soul in Boro Park

Haaretz–January 6, 2009
Sima’s Undergarments for Women
by Ilana Stanger-Ross,
Overlook Press, 319 pages, $24.95
As the owner of a Brooklyn bra shop, Sima Goldner has seen breasts of all kinds– old and young, small and large, breasts with stretch marks, breasts pained by breastfeeding, even the scars left over by breasts that have been removed. But she has [...]

January 2, 2009

Perpetual Perspective: In the Studio with Gilad Efrat

(Photo by Michal Lando)
The Jerusalem Post–January 2, 2009
Wearing jeans and a black T-shirt, painter Gilad Efrat begins to nervously tidy up as I step into his studio on  Shvil Hamifal in South Tel Aviv, camera in hand. These days the studio serves as both his work space and his home, which he shares with his [...]