Israel Seminar Final ProjectPowerPoint Presentation

By Dana ProttasFebruary 2013

Mark on Israel

By Dana Prottas

YOURLeave

Israel

What is this connection to the land?

Why does it pull people so strongly?

Do you feel pulled to the land?

For thousands of years, people gravitate toward the Land of Israel.

The Land of Israel is...

• Am Yisrael / ישראל עם - The place for the Jewish people.

• Torah / תורה - The land of the Torah.

• Eretz / ארץ - The land of the Jewish people.

• Medinah / מדינה - The Jewish state.

What is/are YOUR lens(es)?

What are the

VOICES in Israel?

Let’s name them…

Religious Israelis

Palestinians

Christians

Arab Israelis

Secular Israelis

Israelis

Artistic Expression

Throughout time people have sought to leave their mark as a

way of making a deep connection to the land, the

people, and the state. Artistic expression is one way to

connect more deeply to an experience.

People turn to the ARTS to express and to connect.

Let’s take a look at some art found around Israel...

THINK ABOUT IT...• In what ways can you leave a

mark? What do you see?• What voice do you think is behind

the work?• What message do you think is

being conveyed? ART

THINK ABOUT...

“This sculpture sits on the axis connecting multiple galleries of art. In essence, like the

museum, it symbolizes the link between the past and the future.”

- Jeremy Leigh Jewish History and Israel Studies, Hebrew Union College

(Notes from tour to the Israel Museum)

Sculpture of Nimrod by

Itzhak Danzinger

Israel Museum,Jerusalem

© Dana Kanter Prottas

THINK ABOUT...

“The Wall...At first I am stunned. Then I see: A Wall of frozen tears, a cloud of sighs.”

- Abraham Joshua Heschel Israel: An Echo of Eternity, New York 1969

(from Jerusalem: The Challenge of Sacredness)

The Kotel

Jerusalem

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Prayers & Wishes in the Kotel

Jerusalem

© Dana Kanter Prottas

THINK ABOUT...

“We need to present Israel as a work in progress, legitimize competing visions, and remember that machloket, debate and disagreement, has always been an integral—indeed, a defining—element of

the Jewish experience.”

- David Mendelsson The Challenges of Teaching ‘Israel’

Graffiti

inJerusalem

Translation:“So…”

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Graffiti

inJerusalem

Translation:“You are what?”

Or, “What are you?”

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Graffiti

inJerusalem

Translation:“Those who believe him [Netanyahu]

are afraid.” A play of words on the religious song:

“Those who believe are not afraid.”

© Dana Kanter Prottas

THINK ABOUT...

“Shalom, Chaver.” - Bill Clinton

“How much evil can we swallow?” - David Grossman & Hadag Nachash

Graffiti inRabin Square

inTel Aviv

© Dana Kanter Prottas

THINK ABOUT...

“…the land of Israel has an intrinsic meaning. It is connected to the Jewish people with the knot of life; its very being is suffused with extraordinary qualities. The extraordinary qualities of the land of Israel and the extraordinary qualities of the

Jewish people are two halves of a whole.”

- R. Avraham Yitzchak Kook(from Jerusalem: The Challenge of Sacredness)

Graffiti

inJerusalem

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Graffiti

inJerusalem

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Collaborative Art Mural

Located inHolon

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Graffiti

inJerusalem

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Gan Sippur(The StoryGarden)

Located inHolon

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Mural

inJerusalem

© Dana Kanter Prottas

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Wall Mural

Located inHolon

© Dana Kanter Prottas

THINK ABOUT...

“Israel is a multi-vocal, multi-layered, textured weave that affords the possiblity for intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and social engagement with the Land, People,

and State of Israel in a way that cultivates a rich sense of belonging and commitment to

the Jewish collective.”

- Lisa Grant and Ezra M. KopelowitzIsrael Education Matters, p.22

Graffiti in the

Arab Quarter

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Graffiti in the

Arab Quarter

© Dana Kanter Prottas

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Graffiti at the

Church of theHoly

Sepulcher

© Dana Kanter Prottas

Musical Expression

This song explores another voice in Israel – the Ethiopian Jews. The lyrics express that they are now literally in the land

of Israel, but they are metaphorically still on the outside.

The song heard here in the background is by Israeli singer Ehud Banai and is called

Avodah Sh’chorah/Black Work.

THINK ABOUT...

“The Land of Israel is the centre of the world…”

- Babylonian Talmud, Tanhuma Kedoshim 10

Map of Jerusalem in Center of the World - 1581

The End