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	Friday, July 04, 2008 1 Tamuz, 5768

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CULTURE

	Halevy’s ‘La Juive’ at the Zurich Opera ‘Dreyfus Intime’ by George Whyte preceded this week's première of David Pountney’s new production of Ludovic Halevy’s “La Juive” at the Zurich Opera.

Raíces (“Roots”), Spain’s Jewish Cultural Magazine

Raíces (“Roots”), Spain’s Jewish cultural magazine, recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary.

Tenth birthday for PitiFest Italian Jewish Film Festival

The tiny town of Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, hosts the 10th edition of Italy's most important Jewish Film Festival.

Exhibition “The Korngolds” at the Jewish Museum in Vienna

The Vienna exhibition which will show the life and times of the man behind the music.

More Culture:

	Rare Iraqi Jewish books surface in Israel
	Artist Jozef Szajna, a prominent Auschwitz survivor, dies at 86
	Hendrik Werkman, one of the Netherlands’ most important graphic artists.
	New Hermitage-Guggenheim museum in Vilnius to house centre on ‘Litvaks’
	Siegmund Nissel was the second violinist of the world-famous Amadeus Quartet
	Mohammed caricatures documentary provokes at Cannes festival
	'My Eretz’: a photographic exhibition on the State of Israel in Prague

Jewish Festivals in Europe
	Festival casts 'Barcelona renewal'
	Yiddish featured in Paris Festival
	Conflict Over Krakow Jewish Festival
	Berlin’s Jewish Film Festival
	Jewish cultural festival in Trieste
	Jewish Jazz Band Plays on in Berlin
	Israeli and Palestinian young girls perform at France's Polyfollia Festival

‘One Flight Up’: Alex Katz show in London American-Jewish painter Alex Katz is showing four of his major works in London's West End...three very large paintings with varying subjects and one"...notable early and rare sculptures One Flight Up from 1968..."		Amsterdam Museum to exhibit Russian Jewish art from the Stalin era The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will present from 19 October the exhibition Modern Masterpieces from Moscow.

Day in history

4 July 1976
The Entebbe Rescue

256 hostages from an Air France plane are held prisoners by Palestinian terrorists and Ugandan soldiers at Entebbe airport.

After 8 days they are rescued by Israeli commandos in a brilliant ruse under the command of Yonatan Netanyahu who was shot in the back during the rescue.

EJP PICTURE OF THE WEEK

Around 45,000 people joined last Sunday the Salute to Israel Parade and Rally in central London and Manchester, celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary.