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July 31, 2015
Welcome friends to our Tu B'Av edition of the Hebrew Podcasts Newsletter.
We are sending your way Chag Sameach greetings and Happy Tu B'Av.
Featured Holiday
Tu B'Av ט"ו באב (the fifteenth of the month of Av) is a holiday that was renewed in the modern-day Israel. It falls this year on Friday, July 31, 2015. It is celebrated as a holiday of love חג האהבה (Hag HaAhava) and as such is a very sought after date for romantic dates and Jewish weddings. The kibbutzim celebrate the grape harvest festival as Hag Hakeramim. It was celebrated in the Temple in Jerusalem when unmarried girls would dress in white and dance in the vineyards at the beginning of the grape harvest in the hope of finding a husband.
New Idioms
| Man of letters | eesh se-fer | איש ספר |
| Bookworm | to-la-at sfa-rim | תולעת ספרים |
| Read him like an open book | ko-ret o-to kmo se-fer pa-too-ah | קוראת אותו כמו ספר פתוח |
| By the book | le-fi ha-se-fer | לפי הספר |
New Words
Book se-fer ספר
Literary sif-roo-ti סיפרותי
Librarian saf-ran ספרן
Library sif-ri-ya ספריה
Author, writer so-fer סופר
Literature sif-root ספרות
Story si-poor סיפור
Windows into Israel
The Batsheva Dance Company
Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothchild founded the company in 1964 in Tel Aviv. Two of the main principal dancers were the prima ballerina Rina Schenfeld and Rena Gluck. In 1990 Ohad Naharin founded a youth company, Batsheva Ensenble, with dancers ages between 18 and 24. Batsheva Ensemble performed in 2012 in Edinburgh International Festival and toured the United Kingdom. The company has 34 dancers performing locally and internationally with about 250 performances a year.
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