“We wanted to make it popular and accessible to show that physics is not as difficult as it sounds.” “Usually physics is considered difficult for the general public,” says Yael Goren-Wegman, director of the alumni association. “I studied physics for about a year in high school,” he says.īut we’re never too old for a fieldtrip, right? Lider and Goldstein were invited to create a music video for a reunion of the institute’s physics faculty, which was passed around internally at the institute and recently made its YouTube debut. Lider is only slightly less accomplished in the field of physics. But last fall, Ivri Lider, one of Israel’s most popular rock stars, found himself on the campus hopping from lab to lab with band mate Johnny Goldstein.
It usually takes a bachelor’s degree in the sciences to find yourself in a lab coat and peering through a microscope at the Weizmann Institute, Israel’s internationally renowned research center. CloseĪ spoonful of music helps the string theory go down The email address you have provided is already registered. The Russian-born Lucas, who is Jewish, has become known for his spicy brand of pro-Israel activism and efforts to beef up gay tourism here.
Lucas’ interest in Israel isn’t just a filmmaker’s taste for the exotic “other” – it actually stems from his deep and passionate Zionism. It was supposedly the first pornographic film shot on location in the Holy Land with an all-Israeli/Jewish cast and apparently became a hit for Lucas Entertainment, the gay adult film production company that Lucas founded. The first film that Michael Lucas made about Israel was called “Men of Israel” and featured some of this country's most beautiful male specimens in some of the most beautiful natural landscapes, enjoying each other’s, um, company. A documentary the Israeli government can finally be proud of Related ArticlesĬulture Fop / Happy anniversary to the lands of milk and sushiĬulture Fop / 12 faux pas, follies and feuds in 2012Ĭulture Fop / Israel-China cultural exchange trades snake for roosterĬulture Fop / When the Academy Awards and Purim had a one-night standĬulture Fop / Broadway shines a spotlight on Israel’s racism problemĪustralia's LGBT community marks a bar mitzvah milestoneĬulture Fop / A brief, fabulous history of Eurovision (and where to find it every week in Tel Aviv)Ģ,000 people expected to march in Ashdod’s first gay pride parade