Who said Jerusalem is a lame town? Please step forward and reveal yourself. The coming week, as with all weeks, is marked by a cornucopia of culturally enriching offerings for all tastes....

• This Saturday morning is the final performance (in Hebrew) of the Train Theater's puppet-driven adaptation of Bialik's Far Over the Sea.

• Saturday afternoon, the Bloomfield Science Museum's award-winning Dr. Molecule welcomes the city's children into his laboratory (in Hebrew).

• After Shabbat, Beit Avi Chai's Saturday night concert series continues with a performance from middle-aged alternative singer-songwriter Ari Gorali, who will surely perform his edgy radio hit "Its All Honey."

• Also on Saturday night, Daila's Vanguard: Music Without Borders concert series presents a jam session centered around Turkish saxophonist Albert Beger and bassist Michael Klinghoffer, who served as a key teacher in the training of Israeli jazz sensation Avishai Cohen.

• On Sunday, the hora lives on as the Gerard Bechar center offers Israeli folk dancing for beginners and experts alike.

• On Monday afternoon, two former Soviets, on cello and piano, perform the works of Chopin and Masana for free at Hebrew University's Mt. Scopus campus.

• Monday night brings the weekly English-language standup open mic at the Off The Wall Comedy Basement downtown.

• On Tuesday night, an American college (and post-college, if you ask Will Farrell) ritual called The Naked Mile comes to Hebrew U on Tuesday, including drink specials at the Reznik student nightlife hotspot.

• Also on Tuesday, Germany's acclaimed Carsten Daerr jazz ensemble comes to the Yellow Submarine, with free admission.

• On Wednesday (and every day through 19 July), photographer Arnon Toussia-Cohen's free exhibit of candid photos taken at a popular Tel Aviv train depot wrestles with issues of privacy in the contemporary age. Through these photos at the Artists' House, "the intimate is exposed and takes form," as Toussia-Cohen puts it.

• Next Thursday, July 3, acclaimed rebetiko ensemble Red Flower explores blues-like Greek folk music at the Yellow Submarine.

• Also on Thursday, the Old Train Station compound springs back into action with a reservations-only free performance by the Kolben Dance Company, accompanied by 18th-century Viennese waltzes played live by the Israel Camerata Orchestra.

• That same day, Beit Avi Chai stages the finale of its series of special screenings and lectures entitled Fact and Fiction: 60 Years of Israeli Film and Filmmakers, as Yulie Cohen Gerstel presents her 2007 documentary memoir about the tensions surrounding her brother becoming charedi, My Brother.
  

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Courtesy photo of Carsten Daerr and band, back at home in Germany.