You do not have to be Jewish to love Israeli folk dancing. Jim Rust isn’t, and he’s been teaching a weekly class for 14 years. The unnamed group, formerly the Buffalo Grove Israeli Folk Dance ...

Now, with 25 years of experience teaching Israeli folk dance, Pollock helps others realize that they, too, could do that. And along the way, he teaches his students about Israeli culture.

Each year professional folk dance leaders and choreographers based in Israel and other countries create about 250 to 300 new Israeli dances, says Honey Goldfein, a New York-based folk dance teacher.

There are challenges to the online format, said Levi Bar-Gil, 56, an Israeli folk dance instructor. Advertisement “Touching one another is a basic Israeli folk dance thing.

An Israeli folk dance session during Bitnua festival in Eilat, Israel.(Courtesy of Gadi Bitton) Advertisement By Marcus M. Gilban May 8, 2020 4:00 pm ...