A monthlong celebration of Israeli arts and culture comes to the 14th Street Y The Stav Festival features music, workshops and the New York premiere of a play about Israelis abroad, “The Holylanders.”
Ideas Artists’ anti-Israel protest of David Grossman play fizzles — as it deserved to Lincoln Center, defying protests, staged a performance presenting Israel in all its complexity.
Orna Porat, grande dame of Israeli theater, dies at 91 A German convert to Judaism who immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1947, Porat was eulogized as ‘cultural giant’ by ex-President Shimon Peres.