Bucknell hosts "Israeli Experience"

LEWISBURG, Pa. — Tomer Baruch, an Israeli student at the Jerusalem Music Academy, will lead the events of “Scents, Sounds, and Tastes: An Israeli Experience,” Sept. 20 - 25 at Bucknell University. All events are open to the public.

Events include:

Sept. 21: the Israeli film Nina’s Tragedies will be shown at 9 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre of the Elaine Langone Center. Nina’s Tragedies is a serio-comic look at the topsy-turvy world of an Israeli teenager’s coming-of-age, directed by Savi Gabizon.

Sept. 23: Israeli Slideshow and Gallery of posters from Israel at 8 p.m in Arches Lounge of the Elaine Langone Center. 

Sept. 24: a talk by Tomer Baruch on “the Situation” in the Middle East at 7:30 p.m. in the Gallery Theater of the Elaine Langone Center.

Sept. 24: film and discussion: The Flying Camel, 7 p.m., Gallery Theatre, Elaine Langone Center. The film, directed by Rami Naiman, takes place in Tel-Aviv in the ’90s where an Israeli professor, a Palestinian garbage collector, and a Catholic nun work together to reconstruct a “flying camel.”

Other events will include an Israeli Café with Israeli music, books and newspapers.

Posted Sept. 15, 2006

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