Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Remembering Israel In Haiti - One Year After

World News 

Haiti Government Thanks Israel Flying Aid


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IFA volunteer helps Haitian child
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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.

The above news story was edited and SEO optimized by the Leyden Communications Internet Marketing, Digital PR, New Media, Crisis Communications Group www.IsraelPr.com with sponsorship for coverage of the Haiti earthquake disaster by the Bernard Leyden Memorial Foundation, Michael Cherney Foundation and the Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation.

The Michael Cherney (Mikhail Chernoy) Foundation renders help new arrivals to Israel, victims of catastrophes, terrorist acts and to low-income victims of terror in other countries. The Michael Cherney Foundation is also involved in the news, media and information effort with regards to providing facts on Israel democracy and Islamic terror.

The Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports and contributes volunteer and financial resources to causes locally in the community and worldwide by supporting meaningful programs focusing on art, culture, family services, humanitarian and health carethat work to help people live more fulfilling lives.

Richard Maize has generously supported organizations and causes including the American Cancer Society, Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, Hurricane Katrina, Los Angeles Police Foundation, and Cedars Sinai Board of Governors.

More information on the humanitarian efforts of Israel Flying Aid in Haiti can be found through Facebook, YouTube and Twitter at Israel4Haiti.com

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Israel Diplomats fighting for their rights


Wednesday, January 5, 2011

=== Israel Culture in New York ===

Cultural Highlights - January 5 - January 19
 Welcome 2011
In this Issue
Dance - Out of Israel
Visual Arts - Illustrators 53
Music - City Winery
Film - NY Jewish Film Festival
Visual Arts - Elad Lassry
Visual Arts - Daniel Bauer
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Dance - Out of Israel 
Jan. 7-9 @ 92 Street Y
Part of the 92 Street Y special Out of Israelweekend, featuring new works by Israeli artists working in New York. Excerpts from works by LeeSaar The Company, Neta Pulvermacher and the Neta Dance Company, Deganit Shemy & Company, Netta Yerushalmy, Andrea Miller's Gallim Dance, Michal Samama, Lior Schneior. Come for just a few works, or the whole program!
Friday - FREE
Saturday 3-8pm FREE
The following works are being presented:
FAME, a work-in-progress - LeeSaar The Company
 2280 Pints!, a work-in-progress - Neta Pulvermacher’s Neta Dance Company 
Blink (2010) & 2 Kilos of Sea (2010) - Deganit Shemy & Company
A work-in-progress by Netta Yerushalmy Blush (2009) andWonderland (2010) - Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance 
Still Life with Seven Stories and a Woman (2010) - Michal Samama 
Drang (2009) & a work-in-progress - Lior Schneior
Sunday - 3:00pm
Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy brings together a group of colleagues for an afternoon of solos. Shemy has invited Nicholas Bruder, Denisa Musilova and Michal Samama to show work, and will present an excerpt of her own. Q&A with artists following the performance.
Price - $10
For more information please visit www.92Y.org/dance or call 212.415.5552
Illustrators 53: Asaf Hanuka & Koren Shadmi
January 7 - 22 @ The Society of Illustrators
The first of the three-part "Annual Exhibition: Illustrators 53," the Sequential/Series and Uncommissioned Exhibit features works by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide.
Gold Medals are awarded to Asaf Hanuka for The Realist Comics ,
and Koren Shadmi for Ebb & Flow.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 7th. Refreshments 6:00pm , Awards Presentation 7:00pm 
Tickets - $30 Members $35 Non-Members $20 Students (RSVP by January 3rd RSVP@societyillustrators.org 212 838 2560)
Illustration by Asaf Hanuka, The Realist Comics, Gold Medal
For more information:
Performances at City Winery -
NOA - Achinoam Nini and Rami Kleinstein
 
Monday, Jan. 10, 8:00pm
Known in Israel by her given name Achinoam Nini, Noa is Israel's leading international concert and recording artist. Born in Tel- Aviv in 1969, Noa lived in NYC from age 2 until her return to Israel alone at the age of 17. Her family is originally from Yemen. After serving the mandatory two years in the Israeli Army in a military entertainment unit, Noa studied music at the Rimon School where she met her long-time partner and collaborator Gil Dor.
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 7:00pm
A special night of music, comedy and arts with the incomprable Israeli pop superstar Rami Kleinstein and the dynamic youngISRAMERICA collective.
This intimate concert will showcase Rami's piano virtuosity as part of his Kleinstein & Piano tour. Isramerica will debut ISRAFEST: A MEGA EVENT. Filled with Israeli and Jewish-American Music, Fashion and Art, this multi-genre bridging show should not be missed.
Tickets are very limited and sell out quickly, please order online or by phone 212-608-0555 ext 714
Tickets purchase here - http://www.citywinery.com/
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
Last Chance -
Elad Lassry in New Photogrpahy 2010
Until January 10 @ MoMA
New Photography 2010 presents four artists-Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho-whose photographs, taken in the real world and made in the studio, mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media, television, and cinema. Lassry defines his practice as one consumed with pictures, meaning with generic images lifted from the fag-ends of consumer society, such as Hollywood publicity stills and design illustrations. His intensely colored photocollages or newly staged studio pictures never exceed the format of a magazine spread and are displayed in matching frames that derive their color from the dominant hues in the photograph.  
Image: Elad Lassry,  Lipstick, 2009, C-print, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm) edition of 5, 2AP
Last Chance -
Daniel Bauer: Νεφελοκοκκυγία CLOUDCUCKOOLAND
Until January 8th @ Andrea Meislin Gallery
Cloudcuckooland or Nephelokokkygiais a direct reference to the city conceived and initiated by two dropout Athenian citizens and constructed by birds in Aristophanes' comedy of the same name. Situated in the sky between the terrestrial polis and the Olympian gods, Cloudcuckooland, one of the first utopian constructs, posits a liminal space of critique, escape and resistance, blockading the gods above while threatening to soil the corrupt city of man below.
For more events visit -
 

Office of Cultural Affairs
 
Israeli Consulate, NY