The Women's Annual Dance Festival at Tel Shiloh

It's called "Dancing in the Vineyards"based on the verses in Judges 21:

and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards,

 

On Sunday, July 21 - Tu B'Av:

"There were no holidays so joyous for the Jewish People as the Fifteenth of Av and Yom HaKippurim, for on those days, daughters of Yerushalayim would go out dressed in borrowed white clothing (so that they would all look the same).

Registration at 16:30.

From 5:30 to 8:30 PM dance workshops including folk, hip-hop, improvisation, Midrash, fun, modern, African (with drumming), Oriental and more.

8:30 PM main dance presentation with four dance groups.

9:15 PM show with Din-Din Aviv, Yuval Dayan and Ruchama Ben-Yosef.

In previous years, 2010 and in 2011 and also in 2012, thousands participated.

Don't miss it.

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Ladies, You're Invited to a Dance Festival

At Shiloh:

Thursday, Tu B'Av, August 2.

Starts at 4:30 PM.

Details on poster.

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The Shiloh Holiday of Tu B'Av in Art

The holiday of Tu B'Av represented in art:

Source

Reminder - Women's Dance Festival in Shiloh

The Tu B'Av Women's Dance Festival at Shiloh on Tuesday, Monday, August 15th, starting at 14:30:

Complete details here (in Hebrew).


And those Stern College dancers can participate, too.
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Cute Word Play

The 15th of Av is a minor festival day, called Tu B'Av in Hebrew.

Contemporary Israel has made it into the Festival of Love or a Valentine's Day.

Spotted this sign reading "Two B'Av", a neat exploitation of English and Hebrew:

and here's a poster advertising fish, to your door, which is another symbol of the Hebrew calendar for during the first 9 days of Av, until after the Tisha B'Av fast, the custom is not to eat meat or drink wine as a sign of mourning for the destroyed Temples:

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Tu B'Av

"Behold, there is a yearly feast of the L-rd in Shiloh…"

*Tu B'Av In Shiloh*

*Monday July 30, 2007*

*Walk in the footsteps of Elkana and Shmuel in Tel Shiloh*

*From 3:00 p.m. on - Activities for the whole family: guided tours, Mishkan model and audio-visual show, street theater, handicraft workshops, incense workshop, bee workshop, winepress grape-stomping, and storytelling tent*

*Safari, bus, private cars, and walking tours, kite-flying festival in Yishuv Kida, and nature tours with Nisim Krispil in the areas surrounding the Shiloh bloc*

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*From 6:00 p.m. - Ethnic Foods Fair, Acrobats and Jugglers, and Fascinating Activites for Children and Families*

*At 8:00 p.m.*

*Exciting Concluding Performance featuring:*

*Hasidic performer Asaf Nagel,*

*the brothers duo Udi and Shahar Ariel singing Meir Ariel's songs*

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*Reduced-price family rate tickets at the site*

*To book secure transportation from Jerusalem and Petach Tikva, or for further information call:*

*Amana: 1-800-260-240*

*Tel Shiloh: 02-994-4019; Shiloh Office: 02-940-1111*

Tu B'Av Festival at Shiloh Poster

Here's the poster for this year's Tu B'Av festival at Shiloh:-



July 30th starting at 3 PM.