Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Israel In New York - Cultural Highlights - January 19 - February 2

Cultural Highlights - January 19 - February 2
In this Issue
The Matchmaker
Literature - Jerusalem Crossroads
Dance - Gallim Dance
Music - Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players
Music - Mosheh: A VideOpera
Music - Orpheus
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Avi Nesher's "The Matchmaker" all over NYC:
The Matchmaker
Avi Nesher | Israel | 2010 | 112m

In 1968 Haifa, a teenage boy gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggling goods. Throughout the summer, the mysterious matchmaker takes the boy on a dangerous coming of age ride into the deepest underbelly of Haifa.
"A memory play gold-dusted with adolescent longing and a strong sense of fable, "The Matchmaker" seems singular among Israeli features in the way it juxtaposes guilt with hope, national birth pains with youthful hubris, and utilizes an underside of Israeli life not usually exposed to public view." --Variety
NY Jewish Film Festival
CLOSING NIGHT
 
New York Premiere
thu jan 27: 3:15pm
thu jan 27: 8:30pm
For more films and full schedule -
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/nyjff2011schedule
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Brooklyn Israel Film Festival 
 Janaury 27-30 @ Kane Street Synagogue
The Matchmaker, Saturday, January 29 8:00pm
For all films and tickets:
http://kanestreet.org/community/iff/
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The Matchermaker @ The JCC Manhattan
Tuesday, February 1, 7:30pm
For more information and tickets visit -
http://www.jccmanhattan.org/cat-content.aspx?catID=2607&progID=22927
Jerusalem Crossroads: George Prochnik and David Stromberg
 
Sunday, Jan. 30, 7:00pm @ KGB Bar
David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and journalist. His publications include four collections of single-panel cartoons-including his most recent BADDIES (Melville House 2009)-and he has written on arts and culture for The Believer, Nextbook, St. Petersburg Times, Jerusalem Post, and Ha'aretz. His fiction has appeared in the UK's Ambit. Born to ex-Soviet parents in Ashdod, Israel, Stromberg grew up in urban Los Angeles, and currently resides in Jerusalem. He reads from his novel: In Search of Yana
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George Prochnik is the author of Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam & The Purpose of American Psychology. His most recent essays have been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Cabinet magazine.  His new book, In Pursuit of Silence - Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, was published by Doubleday on April 6, 2010. It is currently available for purchase on Amazon and other internet book sellers.
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About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.
Gallim Dance - Residency and Performance 
Until January 22 @ Dance Theater Workshop 
Gallim Dance Residency and Performance at Dance Theater Workshop
Gallim Dance will be in residence at Dance Theater Workshop January 9-15 to create a new work commissioned by DTW. Performances will take place January 18-22, at 7:30pm 
Coffee and Conversation January 18 at 6:30pm
Post-Show Talk January 21
January 9-15, 2010
January 18-23, 2010
Price - $20
Tickets are on sale, now! Click here for more informationhttp://engage.dancetheaterworkshop.org/show_events_list.asp?shcode=661
Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players with Alon Goldstein
Monday, Jan. 24, 2:00pm & 7:30pm @ Good Shepherd Church
Israeli pianist Alon Goldstein, violinist Misha Keylin and the Jupiter musicians will perform the Dvorak Piano Trio No. 2 in G Minor.  Also on the program are Rachmaninoff's String Quartet No. 2 in D, and the Clarinet Quintet in F# Minor by the Romantic composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.  The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players is "One of the City's Cultural Jewels" New York Sun.
Price:  $10, $15, $25
For more information
call:  212-799-1259
 email:  
admin@jupitersymphony.com
visit website:  www.jupitersymphony.com
Yoav Gal - Mosheh: A VideOpera
Jan. 26 - Feb. 5 @ HERE
All arts converge in this stunning original opera that traces the formation of the legendary figure Moses. Four female figures are brought to the forefront of the Biblical story: the women who nurtured and protected him from birth. Otherworldly costumes and saturated video projection surround the five vocalists, single actor and nine-piece orchestra, who realize the intensity and fervor of Gal's composition.
Mosheh is the mythic tale of Moses, reimagined as a contemporary urban hallucination.
Price - $20 | Opening night: $50
For more information -
http://www.here.org/shows/detail/136/
Orpheus with Vadim Gluzman 
Saturday, Jan. 29, 8:00pm @ Carnegie Hall
Internationally recognized rising star, Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman joins Orpheus for the first time in a performance of Prokofiev's hauntingly beautiful second violin concerto. Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's dark and romantic Serenade, a piece Orpheus is approaching for the first time, brings a distinctive Eastern-European flavor to this program. An overture by Robert Schumann, inspired by an epic poem of Goethe that accounts the tragic fate of two lovers during the French Revolution, opens this concert. Brahms' Serenade No. 2 in A major, his joyful take on the conventional serenade (which leaves out the standard violins) closes the concert.
Tickets starting from $29
For tickets contact Carnegie Charge: 212-247-7800 or order online at www.carnegiehall.orgwww.orpheusnyc.org
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Israeli Consulate, NY

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Israel Cultural Highlights in New York

Cultural Highlights - January 12 - January 26
In this Issue
Film - NY Jewish Film Festival
Film- Bena
Visual Arts - Naomi Leshem
Visual Arts - Group Exhibition
Dance - Gallim Dance
Dance - Dana Ruttenberg
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NY Jewish Film Festival 
 
 
Israeli Films at the Festival:
 
CLOSING NIGHTThe MatchmakerAvi Nesher | Israel | 2010 | 112m
New York Premiere
thu jan 27: 3:15pm
thu jan 27: 8:30pm


As LilithEytan Harris | Israel | 2010 | 78m
New York Premiere
mon jan 24: 3:45pm
mon jan 24: 8:45pm

Black BusAnat Zuria | Israel | 2009 | 76m
New York Premiere
tue jan 25: 1:15pm
tue jan 25: 6:00pm

The Human Resources ManagerEran Riklis | Israel/Germany/France/Romania | 2010 | 103m
New York Premiere
sat jan 15: 6:30pm
thu jan 20: 3:30pm
thu jan 20: 8:30pm

Precious LifeShlomi Eldar | Israel | 2010 | 90m
HBO Documentary Film
wed jan 26: 6:00pm

Sixty and the CityNili Tal | Israel | 2010 | 70m
New York Premiere
tues Jan 18: 9:00pm
wed Jan 19: 3:30pm

Yolande: An Unsung HeroineDan Wolman | Israel | 2010 | 60m
New York Premiere
tue jan 25: 3:30pm
tue jan 25: 8:15pm

For more information and full schedule -
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/nyjff2011schedule
Bena
January 19, 7:30pm @ The JCC Manhattan 
Directed by Niv Klainer
(Israel, 90 min, 2009)

 
Amos lives alone with his schizophrenic teenage son, whom he refuses to intern in the psychiatry ward. He brings home a young Thai woman, an illegal alien named Bena, with the hope of finding some "normality" through this female presence, but things do not work out as expected.

 
Director Niv Klainer will introduce the film and answer questions following the screening.

Price -
$8.00 Member

$10.00 Nonmember



Naomi Leshem: Between Zone
 January 13 - 18 @ Andrea Meislin Gallery
Andrea Meislin Gallery is very pleased to present Between Zones, an exhibition of work by acclaimed photographer Naomi Leshem. There will be an opening reception for the artist on January 13, 2011 from 6 - 8 PM.
The exhibition includes two distinct but complementary bodies of work. Runways shows images of young women standing on all nine of Israel's active military runways and Sleepers captures adolescent boys and girls at their most vulnerable: asleep at night in their beds. Both series speak of a momentary limbo between states, between consciousness and between the milestones of young life.
Image: Ofir, Israel, 2009
A Strange Affinity to the Beautiful and the Dreadful
Jan. 16 - Feb. 20 @HendershotGallery
Curated by Maureen Sullivan
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 16, 6-8pm
Israeli artsits participating: Gilad Ratman, Lior Grady, Galia Ofri
Image: Galia Ofri, One of Mine
Gallim Dance - Residency and Performance 
Jan. 18-22 @ Dance Theater Workshop 
Gallim Dance Residency and Performance at Dance Theater Workshop
Gallim Dance will be in residence at Dance Theater Workshop January 9-15 to create a new work commissioned by DTW. Performances will take place January 18-22, at 7:30pm 
Coffee and Conversation January 18 at 6:30pm
Post-Show Talk January 21
January 9-15, 2010
January 18-23, 2010
Price - $20
Tickets are on sale, now! Click here for more informationhttp://engage.dancetheaterworkshop.org/show_events_list.asp?shcode=661
Contemporary Workshop with Dana Ruttenberg
Contemporary Dance Workshop with Israeli born dancer and choreographer Dana Ruttenberg.Creative Minds in Creative Bodies: the class will be divided into a technique component and a creative one.  The week will culminate in a studio showing during class on Friday. 
Single Class: $20
Full Workshop $90
You may pre-register for the full workshop on our website.
For more information:
Call 212-505-0886 or email info@peridance.com
Visit www.peridance.com for more information.
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Israeli Consulate, NY

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Remembering Israel In Haiti - One Year After

World News 

Haiti Government Thanks Israel Flying Aid


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2010-02-01 17:50:58 - Port-au-Prince, Haiti (RPRN) 02/01/10 — Situation in Haiti remains desperate. Children are dying from lack of food andwater.

-The Government of Haiti, which is now supervising the global relief efforts resulting from a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake which has killed over 200,000 people, has thanked Israel Flying Aid for it'shumanitarian assistance.

Israel Flying Aid flew into Haiti shortly after the earthquake with a team of 14 medical and logistical professionals whose mission was to treat children for trauma and rape. Israel Flying Aid brought food, water, medicine, blankets, clothing and professional medical clowns from the Philnur Foundation.

At first Israel Flying Aid was operating out of the Israel Defense Forces IDF field hospital in Haiti, but after the IDF left back for Israel, IFA then selected an orphanage in Haiti to support and rebuild. The orphanage, which has 50 children aged 2-14 years of age, had 20 children taken illegally by human traffickers to be sold to pedophiles.

"We have been watching you and your team work 24 by 7 since you arrived at the orphanage. Your quick, professional and modest action in caring for these very small and sick children has saved many lives," Haiti Minister for Culture and Communications Marie Laurence Jocelyn-Lassegue told Gal Lusky, CEO and founder of IFA.

"The efforts of Israel Flying Aid should be used as an example to the world that Haiti children can be protected, cared for and provided with everything from essential supplies and housing to children movies and loving hugs.

In just three days Israel Flying Aid rebuilt the orphanage and took the children, who are all suffering from severe malnutrition, from sleeping on the cold ground with rocks and garbage to soft, clean mattresses and colorful balloons inside a newly built house.


Israel Flying Aid and Orange Israel Telecommunications had announced that they had planned to aid humanitarian efforts in Haiti by creating an orphanage which would immediately accommodate 70 children.

The first of three stages of establishing an orphanage which is expected to absorb over 200 children in Haiti has now been completed.

The orphanage is now staffed by both Haiti and Israel volunteers. These volunteers provide primary medical care, educational, social services, nutrition and trauma treatment working in cooperation with 20 Christian Nuns.

"Israel Flying Aid is based upon the Jewish principles of the prophet Isaiah to: 'Uphold the rights of the orphan; defend the cause of the widow, and in doing so we do not discriminate by race, nationality or religion," said Lusky.

"We urgently need funds to continue this operation and other humanitarian missions for which we carry out throughout the year around the world. To help those children who were injured and or abandoned. We have supplies for the children in Haiti for just a few more weeks, we need additional funds which will last them throughout the year and the hurricane season."

IFA, which was established in 2005, has an uncompromising obligation to the victims of disaster and not to their countries, governments, militias, or military that may prevent international assistance to victims. IFA chooses to deliver aid to communities that are hostile toward Israel, such as Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, Indonesia and others.

Hundreds of Israel Flying Aid volunteers, who leave their families on short notice and risk their lives as they are dispatched to the most remote areas of the world in order to help those most in need, are brave individuals who represent the heart of Israel.

Israel Flying Aid reaches out on behalf of the Jewish people in the spirit of peace, love, and compassion.

IFA is placing an urgent appeal to the global public to assist in finding and treating children in Haiti by sending donations to Israel Discount Bank, branch 199, account # 57797, SWIFT ID: BLILIT.

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