If you have been fortunate enough to have met Robert Rietti on or off stage, you will never forget the impact such a meeting has left on you of a perfect gentleman with a beautiful voice, with a wonderful sense of humour, with warmth, kindness and with the ability to […]
JEWISH CREDO EXHIBITION AT THE SPIRO ARK
By the well known Photographer Dennis Toff FRPSIt does not often happen that a distinguished photographer is happy to present his work at a relatively small venue like the Spiro Ark. Dennis Toff’s photographs have been exhibited worldwide from the Barbican in London to galleries in New York, also in […]
IN ISHMAEL’S HOUSE – A HISTORY OF JEWS IN MUSLIM LANDS
Sir Martin Gilbert is one of Britain’s most distinguished historians who was given the honour of being Sir Winston Churchill’s official biographer.’In Ishmael’s House’, his 82nd book, Sir Martin makes accessible to his international English speaking readership the often neglected comprehensive and colourful history of Jews in Muslim lands: The […]
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – PRESS RELEASE
SPIRO ARK WORKSHOP WITH PERFORMANCE OF FIDDLER ON THE ROOFMusical Director Idit GoldWhere: Spiro Ark Centre, Marylebone,25 – 26 Enford Street, London W1H 1DW www.spiroark.orgWhat: Spiro Ark Centre is holding a workshop of songs from ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ with a final public performance on 28th November.The workshop will run […]
TIKO ALALOUFF
Tiko Alalouff is an artist blessed with a lovely sense of humour. He is a loyal friend of the Spiro Ark.Towards the New Year he has sent this card to us, our staff, volunteers, students and friends with his wishes for a sweet and happy New Year.May you all be […]
APPRECIATION LETTER
The director and producer of ‘Legend in the Dunes’ which we presented on 14th and 15th June 2010 wrote:”Shalom NitzaI was planning to write and thank you for your great effort in arranging the wonderful event for my filmas I returned I had 190 e-mails that I didn’t finish to […]
HEBREW FOR NON JEWS
If you are a non-Jewish person who studies Hebrew anywhere, if you wish to continue your own perspective, please send us your comments.In the last issue of Alondon, the Hebrew magazine published in London, the following article describing one of our beginners Hebrew courses appeared. If you hesitate where your […]
ROSALIND BIEBER’S EXHIBITION
Rosalind Bieber’s exhibition is now continuing and here is some background to this work.My first memory of drawing is being six years old in Kindergarten. Theteacher comes into the classroom and asks everyone to draw a squirrel,or Father Christmas. Such is my terror and shame at seemingly havingno visual imagination […]
PAUL MARTIN AT THE SPIRO ARK
PAUL MARTIN:BIOGRAPHICAL AND CAREER NOTEEXPERTISE: Middle East, especially Arab-Israeli conflict; Gaza; Iraq; southern Africa; sports politics; nuclear non-proliferation.Paul Martin has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe since he began his career in 1977. He was correspondent for the BBC in Cairo from late 1978 during the […]
LEGEND IN THE DUNES – A BRITISH FOOTAGE ABOUT 40 FIRST YEARS OF TEL AVIV – NEVER SEEN BEFORE
The film opens with n high resolution footage from a film which was photographed by the famous Lumier brothers in Jaffa in 1897. This astonishing peep into the end of the 19th century is vivid and absorbing and hints at the very many surprises that Yaakov Gross produces for the […]