The Milk & Honey Blog

I guess I should have written about her a while ago, Yael Naim is definitely one of the most promising Israeli artists for a couple of years now. You might have heard part of her “New Soul” song, while watching the new MacBook Air ad, and now you get a chance to hear the entire song, but i promise you the rest of her songs are just as fun and creative.

The really good news is that she will be performing June 22 in Tumsey Playfield Central Park 7:00 - 10:00 pm (Free). In my opinion it is a MUST! I think this is a perfect time to write about another one of my favorite Israeli performers - Din Din Aviv, her songs are mostly in Hebrew, but like this one, many of the words are made up. the song - Mashmauyot, is all about words that mean nothing - literally, but sound great. and in case you are wondering, yes that is Yael Naim in the clip, dancing with her close friend Din Din Aviv 

As promised I am continuing to follow Israeli work-fashion by photographer Yanai Yechiel, this time at an advertising and media company by the name of TBWA/DIGITAL in Tel-Aviv (by the way, just so you know, Tel-Aviv is not the only city in Israel). Like I wrote in part one of this project, it is a known fact that Israelis do not dress up for work, which makes me wonder whether the subjects knew they were being photographed that day and came to work with their favorite/best outfits.

Alex Tim

Michal Potorski Zalal

Sefi Erlich

Tal Forkosh

Yariv Barnblum

you have to listen to this guy; his name is Asaf Avidan, he lives in Israel and sings only in English…

Today is Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the 6 million Jews murdered in the holocaust. This day as always been a hard one for me, all four of my grandparents are holocaust survivors and I always felt it is essential for me to remember and learn what happened there, to keep my family history alive. Since moving to NYC life has taken a different pace and sometimes just dealing with day to day issues turns me off track and makes me forgetful… So I would like to recommend a book: MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman. MAUS (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer prize) MAUS is a graphic novel telling the story of the author’s father’s survival of the Holocaust.  It is also the tale of Spiegelman’s strained relationship with his father, and his attempt to come to terms with his dad, himself, and the truths of the Holocaust. In the books mice are Jews, pigs are Poles, and cats are Nazi’s.  It takes the older Spiegelman from rich factory owner, to a Jewish ghetto, to Auschwitz, and home.  With my love to animation, I found that pictures were able to bring to life in an always relevant way the life in war and felt reconnected to my family’s history, especially my grandmother an Auschwitz survivor. I recommend this book to everyone; it is difficult to digest at times but is able to hit the spot and would make a great read for a day like today.