1 in nine
Filed under: education, General, health, Life
A good friend just hosted a Breast Cancer Awareness workshop. I didn’t attend this particular one, but have hosted and attended others, and want to let other women know how to set this up.
Created by the One in Nine organization in Israel — which works to raise public awareness of breast cancer and advance breast health in Israel — the workshops can be run in private homes, places of business, anywhere where a group of women can sit comfortably, listen, and spend some time examining the silicon breast models that are used for demonstrating how to check one’s breasts.
The process is easy: Contact the One in Nine facilitator, Maya Ohana, who will connect you with an English or Hebrew-speaking facilitator in your area. Invite your women — not too many, because you want to have enough time to pass around the ‘breasts’ and ask and answer questions. It costs NIS 600 per workshop, and people can be asked to pay a fee or some prefer to sponsor the evening in memory of a loved one who died from breast cancer.
My friend noted a few things about the evening. She felt that everyone learned how to create a routine of early detection in Israel, from using the silicon breast models for seeing what one is trying to find, to calling your health clinic and scheduling an appointment with a breast surgeon — no referral necessary.
Start with the One in Nine website, with information in both Hebrew and English about breast health, breast workshops and other relevant information.
On Chaim Laroz and mastering the bass
Perhaps taking some cues from Yossi Fine on how to turn one’s self from a local bass session player into an international bass master, Chaim Laroz has been continually reinventing himself over the course of recent years.
An accomplished session man, producer, touring band member, composer and solo band leader, Laroz rose the ranks of Israeli bassists starting in the Nineties, when he collaborated extensively with the likes of Assaf Amdursky and Berry Sakharof. He also served as a member of Ra’ash, an alternative guitar rock act which released three influential albums throughout that decade.
Laroz helped Karni Postel rise to the brink of her mainstream pop successes of today when they formed the Bikini duo, with Postel handling vocals and Laroz handling almost all of the rest of the sound (including bass, samplers, oud and percussion parts).
Laroz branched still farther outward when he remixed a single for the Pet Shop Boys, arranged soundtracks for the celebrated Batsheva dance ensemble and formed a seminal groovetronica project called EQs, which essentially sent him off into the world of dancehall, dub and funk, where he primarily exists today.
In 2004 and 2005, Laroz spent some time living and gigging in Australia, but he came back to Israel. The unfortunately titled Laroz is a Rose album, his solo debut, came out ten years ago, and Laroz has been involved mostly with his career as a solo artist based in Israel ever since. His latest studio solo effort, 2006′s Soundsystem, includes guest spots from real-deal Jamaicans like Trevor Sax and Fitta Warri.
However, he’s still garnering attention internationally. In November, Philadelphia-based music blog Mad Decent called him “a true pioneer in the Israeli Reggae & Electronica scene” and linked to several downloadable and streaming Laroz remixes (Noiz in Zion also offered a remix recently). And locally he’s been active as well, touring sporadically in recent months and leading a bass master workshop in Tel Aviv this month.
Belly dancing on the Red Sea
Filed under: coexistence, General, History and Culture, Israeliness, Pop Culture
In a trend that runs parallel to the exploding popularity of pole dancing lessons among North American soccer moms, Israeli women – even Baby Boom-generation Ashkenaziot (Jews of Eastern European descent) – have been flocking to belly dancing activities and workshops in recent years.
The art form’s renaissance in Israeli culture, which always seems to be searching for ways to marry Middle Eastern folk arts with contemporary lifestyles, was on display in full force this past weekend in Eilat, where the fifth annual International Belly Dance Festival took place with much fanfare at the Golden Tulip hotel, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Workshops with over 20 instructors from around the world introduced participants to a variety of schools of thought on the subject of abdominal writhing. A wares fair offered goods like Turkish outfits, Indian jewelry and Egyptian recordings. A belly dance-off allowed participants from Russia, France, Germany Belgium and Israel to compete for a slot in an upcoming Berlin competition as part of that city’s Bazar Oriental festival.
And recital performances kept those in attendance entertained, thanks to shimmying from the likes of Egyptian-bred Magdy El-Leisy and Moroccan-raised Mayodi.
Image of an Israeli belly dancer courtesy YanivG from Flickr under a Creative Commons license.
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