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  By David Rosh Pina Belongings , a photo exhibition about the Ukrainian refugees, opened on Kikar Kedumim 8, in Jaffa, until December 10th, it´s a must-see.   It has been ten months since a madman in charge of major nuclear power decided to invade Ukraine. All of us around the world have lived with inflation, higher prices of energy and fuel, threats of nuclear catastrophes, if not all-out annihilation. But the human cost of this war is the most tragic consequence. American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman, famously said, "War is hell." All wars are hell.     Israeli artist Rom Barnea traveled to Poland and developed with the Polish producer Julia Maria Koszewska, a groundbreaking video and photography project about the human price of this war. Over sixty refugees were interviewed and photographed. The exhibition is marvelously curated. There are installations with traditional Ukrainian craft items and a heart-breaking desk install...

  In the celebrations of Jose Saramago´s centenary By David Rosh Pina " The journey never ends, only travelers end. And even they can still go on in the memory, the remembrance, the narrative," wrote José Saramago, the Portuguese writer and laureate of the  1998 Nobel Prize in Literatu r e for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion, and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.”   Born into a family of landless peasants in Azinhaga do Ribatejo, Portugal, on November 16 th , 1922, he ended his journey, aged 87.   on June 18 th , 2010, in Las Palmas, Canarias, the Spanish Atlantic islands. This year he completed 100 years but his journey goes on in our memory. To pay tribute to José Saramago on the centenary of his birth , the embassy of Portugal in Tel Aviv organized an event in the central public library of the city, Beit Ariela Shaar Zion Library, with the support of t...