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2006-2007
Cultural Calendar: Lectures and Literature (Archives)
Israeli
Music | Lectures
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The
Israel Center of San Francisco is proud to bring
you:
ISRAEL
UPDATE - MABAT SHENI*
Lecture
Series
(check back for more speakers)
 Israeli
TV News Icon Gil Tamary
Mr. Tamary is the Washington Correspondent
for Channel 10 News in Israel. Prior to joining
Channel 10 News, Mr. Tamary served as anchor
and chief editor of "Good Morning Israel,"
and worked as the Washington Bureau Chief for
Israel Broadcasting Authority and Kol Israel
(Voice of Israel).
Over the last decade, Mr. Tamary has covered
a wide range of Middle East issues from a U.S.
perspective.
Mr. Tamary was born in Israel and is a reserve
officer in the IDF. He has an MBA and a bachelor’s
degree with a distinction in Economics and Management
from Tel Aviv University.
- September 5. 7:30 pm. Contra
Costa Jewish Community Center, 2071 Tice Valley
Blvd., Walnut Creek.
- September 6. 7:30 pm.
JCCSF. 3200 California, San Francisco.
- September 7. 7:30 pm.
Cubberley Community Center #room H-1, 4000
Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.
- September 8. 6:00 pm. Congregation
Rodef Sholom, 170 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
 Knesset
Member Collette Avital
First Israeli
woman to run for president
Collette Avital is an Israeli parliamentarian
who has served in the 15th, 16th, and 17th (current)
Knessets. She is the International Secretary
of the Israeli Labor Party and chairperson for
both the Committee for Immigrant Absorption
and the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for
the Location and Restitution of Property of
Holocaust Victims. She also serves on
the Committee for the Advancement of the Status
of Women; the Finance Committee; and the Constitution,
Law, and Justice Committee.
As a career diplomat, Ambassador Avital has
served as the Israeli Consul General to New
York, Consul and Acting Consular General in
Boston, Ambassador to Portugal, Consul in Paris,
and Press Attaché in Brussels.
In addition, within the Israeli Foreign Ministry,
she has served as Director of the Leadership
Department and Deputy Director General of the
Communications and Information Division.
Ambassador Avital holds a B.A. in Political
Science and a M.A. in Public Administration,
while her mastery of foreign languages includes
English, French, Romanian, German, Portuguese,
and Italian. Her articles have appeared
in Le Monde, the New York Times, and the New
York Post.
Monday, September 11,
2006. 7:00 pm. Cubberley Auditorium,
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Admission
$5. RSVP to Teresa Lanz at teresal@sfjcf.org
or 650.919.2100 ext. 8005.
 Deputy
Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo Yael Dayan
Ms. Dayan served three terms as a Labor Party
member of Knesset. Dayan was a member of the
Defense and Foreign Affairs and the Constitution,
Law and Justice Committees. She founded and
chaired the Committee for the Advancement of
the Status of Women as well as the Subcommittee
for Gay and Lesbian Rights. Ms. Dayan is the
author of eight books (six novels) and has been
a journalist for forty years, writing political
commentary in both Israeli and foreign press.
Dayan was born in Nahalal, a co-operative village,
in Israel, to Ruth and the late General Moshe
Dayan. She lives in Tel Aviv, was married to
the late General (Reserves) Dov Sion and has
two children and three grandchildren.
- Tuesday, October 3, 7:30 pm. Temple
Sinai, corner of Webster St. @ 28th St., Oakland.
- Wednesday, October 4, 7:30 pm. JCCSF.
3200 California, San Francisco.
- Thursday, October 5, 7:30 pm. Peninsula
Jewish Community Center Board Room, 800 Foster
City Blvd., Foster City.
- Friday, October 6, 7:30 pm. Congregation
Rodef Sholom, 170N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
- Saturday, October 7, 12:30 pm. Discussion
following the screening of "Can You Hear Me",
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley. (more...)
- Saturday, October 7, 7:00 pm. Congregation
Sha'ar Zahav, 290 Dolores St., San Francisco.
 Alon
Ben David
Alon Ben David is a television and print journalist,
who has been covering the Middle East conflict
for the last 20 years. Specializing in defense
and military issues, Mr. Ben David is currently
a Senior Defense Correspondent for Israeli Channel
10 and Middle East Correspondent for the London-based
Jane's Defence Weekly. He presents on-air military
news and analysis daily, including on-the-scene
reporting.
Mr. Ben David has covered all major events
in the region in the last two decades, including
the first and second Intifada, the assassination
of Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Disengagement
from Gaza, and israel's long war in Lebanon,
including the recent round. He has reported
from scenes of major global events, such as
the 9/11 attack in NY.
Mr. Ben David holds a BA in political science
from Tel Aviv University and a Master's in public
administration from Harvard University.
- Tuesday, October 31, 7:30 pm.
New Location: Congregation
Beth Am, Los Altos Hills. (Suggested donation
at the door of $10 to defray the cost) Info:
Sara Bronstein, (650) 619-3513, quebo@sbcglobal.net
- Yitzhak Rabin
Memorial Service. Wednesday, November
1, 7:30 pm. JCCSF. 3200 California,
San Francisco.
- Thursday, November 2, 7:30 pm. Peninsula
Jewish Community Center Board Room, 800 Foster
City Blvd., Foster City.
- Friday, November 3, 7:30pm. Congregation
Rodef Sholom, 170N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
 Dr.
Reuven Pedatzur
Expert on the
Iranian nuclear threat and on Israeli nuclear
and defense policy.
A former Israeli Air Force combat pilot, Dr.
Pedatzur is the defense analyst for the Israeli
daily newspaper Haaretz, a senior professor
at WSWthe Strategic Studies Program of Tel Aviv
University and the academic director of the
Strategic Dialogue Center of Netanya College.
- Friday,
December 5, 6:00 p.m.
UC Davis. More info: Yonatan Barkan, israel@hillelhouse.org,
(530) 756-3708 x 4.
- Wednesday,
December 6, 7:30 p.m.
JCCSF,
3200 California (@ Presidio), San Francisco.
- Thursday,
December 7, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Peninsula Jewish Community Center 800 Foster
City Blvd., Foster City.
An expanded two-part panel discussion, featuring
guest speaker Dr. Reuven Pedatzur.
Series (starting November 30):
$10 member/ $15 non-member. Drop-In: $5 member/
$7.50 non-member. More
info...
- Friday,
December 8, 6:00 p.m.
Congregation Rodef
Sholom, 170 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
 Dr.
Alon Tal
Leading Israeli Environmentalist
The founding director of Adam Teva V'din, the
Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Dr.
Alon Tal founded, in 1996, the Arava Institute
for Environmental Studies, a graduate studies
center in which Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian
students join environmentalists from around
the world in an advanced interdisciplinary research
program. In 2006 he was awarded the Charles
Bronfman humanitarian prize for environmental
leadership. The 100,000 prize money has been
largely directed to establish The Tal Fund –
a new grassroots ecological initiative in Israel
in conjunction with the Jewish National Fund.
Dr. Tal is an Associate Professor of Environmental
Policy at Ben Gurion University, and has held
faculty appointments at Tel Aviv and the Hebrew
Universities in Israel, and taught at Harvard
and the University of Otago, New Zealand. He
is chairman of the committee for sustainable
development on the international board of the
Jewish National Fund and represents Israel's
Foreign Ministry at the United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification.
- Tuesday, February 6, 7:30 p.m.
Palo Alto JCC, 4000 Middlefield Rd., Palo
Alto.
- Wednesday, February 7, 7:30 p.m.
JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco.
Tzvia Greenfield
Jerusalem-born Dr. Greenfield, an activist
of Meretz party, uniquely bridges her ultra-Orthodox
background with her liberal views and values.
Tzvia Greenfield, an author, publicist and educator
and a mother of five, is a veteran activist
in several Israeli and international human-
and civil-rights organizations. For years, she
has campaigned for the separation of religion
and state and against orthodox coercion. Greenfield
is the founder of Mifne (Turning Point) Institute
for Democracy and Cultural Identity in Jerusalem,
was among the founders of “Religious Women
for the Sanctity of Life” movement, a
member of B’tselem, the Israeli information
center for human rights in the occupied territories.
Dr. Greenfield, an activist of Meretz party,
was a candidate for the seventeenth Knesset.
May 1 - 4, 2007.
- Tuesday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Jewish Community Center of the East
Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley.
Info: (510) 839-2900 ext. 253
- Wednesday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.
JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco
- Thursday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.
Peninsula JCC, 800 Foster City Blvd.,
Foster City.
- Friday, May 4, Shabbat Service.
Congregation Shaar Zahav, 290 Dolores
St., San Francisco.
Info: www.shaarzahav.org
/ 415.861.6932
Israel Update
is a unique program. Our knowledgeable guests
will discuss current events in Israel, providing
context and analysis that goes behind the headlines.
Each month will feature a different topic and
a special guest. (In English)
An Isarel Center program, co-sponsored with
the San Francisco JCC, the Jewish Community
Relations Council, the Jewish Community Federation
of the Greater East Bay, Congreation Emanu-El,
the Peninsula JCC, the Palo Alto JCC, and Congregation
Rodef Sholom.
For more information: 415.512-6293
Israel Update
is a unique program. Our knowledgeable guests
will discuss current events in Israel, providing
context and analysis that goes behind the headlines.
Each month will feature a different topic and
a special guest. (In English)
An Isarel Center program, co-sponsored with
the San Francisco JCC, the Jewish Community
Relations Council, the Jewish Community Federation
of the Greater East Bay, Congreation Emanu-El,
the Peninsula JCC, the Palo Alto JCC, and Congregation
Rodef Sholom.
*Mabat Sheni- Second Look in Hebrew. Named
after an Israeli '60 Minutes' - like TV news
magazine.
For more information: 415.512-6203
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The
Israel Center of San Francisco is proud to bring
you:
ISRAEL
UPDATE - MABAT SHENI*
Lecture
Series
(check back for more speakers)
Israeli
TV News Icon Gil Tamary
Mr. Tamary is the Washington Correspondent
for Channel 10 News in Israel. Prior to joining
Channel 10 News, Mr. Tamary served as anchor
and chief editor of "Good Morning Israel,"
and worked as the Washington Bureau Chief for
Israel Broadcasting Authority and Kol Israel
(Voice of Israel).
Over the last decade, Mr. Tamary has covered
a wide range of Middle East issues from a U.S.
perspective.
Mr. Tamary was born in Israel and is a reserve
officer in the IDF. He has an MBA and a bachelor’s
degree with a distinction in Economics and Management
from Tel Aviv University.
- September 5. 7:30 pm. Contra
Costa Jewish Community Center, 2071 Tice Valley
Blvd., Walnut Creek.
- September 6. 7:30 pm.
JCCSF. 3200 California, San Francisco.
- September 7. 7:30 pm.
Cubberley Community Center #room H-1, 4000
Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.
- September 8. 6:00 pm. Congregation
Rodef Sholom, 170 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
Knesset
Member Collette Avital
First Israeli
woman to run for president
Collette Avital is an Israeli parliamentarian
who has served in the 15th, 16th, and 17th (current)
Knessets. She is the International Secretary
of the Israeli Labor Party and chairperson for
both the Committee for Immigrant Absorption
and the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for
the Location and Restitution of Property of
Holocaust Victims. She also serves on
the Committee for the Advancement of the Status
of Women; the Finance Committee; and the Constitution,
Law, and Justice Committee.
As a career diplomat, Ambassador Avital has
served as the Israeli Consul General to New
York, Consul and Acting Consular General in
Boston, Ambassador to Portugal, Consul in Paris,
and Press Attaché in Brussels.
In addition, within the Israeli Foreign Ministry,
she has served as Director of the Leadership
Department and Deputy Director General of the
Communications and Information Division.
Ambassador Avital holds a B.A. in Political
Science and a M.A. in Public Administration,
while her mastery of foreign languages includes
English, French, Romanian, German, Portuguese,
and Italian. Her articles have appeared
in Le Monde, the New York Times, and the New
York Post.
Monday, September 11,
2006. 7:00 pm. Cubberley Auditorium,
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Admission
$5. RSVP to Teresa Lanz at teresal@sfjcf.org
or 650.919.2100 ext. 8005.
Deputy
Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo Yael Dayan
Ms. Dayan served three terms as a Labor Party
member of Knesset. Dayan was a member of the
Defense and Foreign Affairs and the Constitution,
Law and Justice Committees. She founded and
chaired the Committee for the Advancement of
the Status of Women as well as the Subcommittee
for Gay and Lesbian Rights. Ms. Dayan is the
author of eight books (six novels) and has been
a journalist for forty years, writing political
commentary in both Israeli and foreign press.
Dayan was born in Nahalal, a co-operative village,
in Israel, to Ruth and the late General Moshe
Dayan. She lives in Tel Aviv, was married to
the late General (Reserves) Dov Sion and has
two children and three grandchildren.
- Tuesday, October 3, 7:30 pm. Temple
Sinai, corner of Webster St. @ 28th St., Oakland.
- Wednesday, October 4, 7:30 pm. JCCSF.
3200 California, San Francisco.
- Thursday, October 5, 7:30 pm. Peninsula
Jewish Community Center Board Room, 800 Foster
City Blvd., Foster City.
- Friday, October 6, 7:30 pm. Congregation
Rodef Sholom, 170N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
- Saturday, October 7, 12:30 pm. Discussion
following the screening of "Can You Hear Me",
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley. (more...)
- Saturday, October 7, 7:00 pm. Congregation
Sha'ar Zahav, 290 Dolores St., San Francisco.
Alon
Ben David
Alon Ben David is a television and print journalist,
who has been covering the Middle East conflict
for the last 20 years. Specializing in defense
and military issues, Mr. Ben David is currently
a Senior Defense Correspondent for Israeli Channel
10 and Middle East Correspondent for the London-based
Jane's Defence Weekly. He presents on-air military
news and analysis daily, including on-the-scene
reporting.
Mr. Ben David has covered all major events
in the region in the last two decades, including
the first and second Intifada, the assassination
of Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Disengagement
from Gaza, and israel's long war in Lebanon,
including the recent round. He has reported
from scenes of major global events, such as
the 9/11 attack in NY.
Mr. Ben David holds a BA in political science
from Tel Aviv University and a Master's in public
administration from Harvard University.
- Tuesday, October 31, 7:30 pm.
New Location: Congregation
Beth Am, Los Altos Hills. (Suggested donation
at the door of $10 to defray the cost) Info:
Sara Bronstein, (650) 619-3513, quebo@sbcglobal.net
- Yitzhak Rabin
Memorial Service. Wednesday, November
1, 7:30 pm. JCCSF. 3200 California,
San Francisco.
- Thursday, November 2, 7:30 pm. Peninsula
Jewish Community Center Board Room, 800 Foster
City Blvd., Foster City.
- Friday, November 3, 7:30pm. Congregation
Rodef Sholom, 170N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
Dr.
Reuven Pedatzur
Expert on the
Iranian nuclear threat and on Israeli nuclear
and defense policy.
A former Israeli Air Force combat pilot, Dr.
Pedatzur is the defense analyst for the Israeli
daily newspaper Haaretz, a senior professor
at WSWthe Strategic Studies Program of Tel Aviv
University and the academic director of the
Strategic Dialogue Center of Netanya College.
- Friday,
December 5, 6:00 p.m.
UC Davis. More info: Yonatan Barkan, israel@hillelhouse.org,
(530) 756-3708 x 4.
- Wednesday,
December 6, 7:30 p.m.
JCCSF,
3200 California (@ Presidio), San Francisco.
- Thursday,
December 7, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Peninsula Jewish Community Center 800 Foster
City Blvd., Foster City.
An expanded two-part panel discussion, featuring
guest speaker Dr. Reuven Pedatzur.
Series (starting November 30):
$10 member/ $15 non-member. Drop-In: $5 member/
$7.50 non-member. More
info...
- Friday,
December 8, 6:00 p.m.
Congregation Rodef
Sholom, 170 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
Dr.
Alon Tal
Leading Israeli Environmentalist
The founding director of Adam Teva V'din, the
Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Dr.
Alon Tal founded, in 1996, the Arava Institute
for Environmental Studies, a graduate studies
center in which Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian
students join environmentalists from around
the world in an advanced interdisciplinary research
program. In 2006 he was awarded the Charles
Bronfman humanitarian prize for environmental
leadership. The 100,000 prize money has been
largely directed to establish The Tal Fund –
a new grassroots ecological initiative in Israel
in conjunction with the Jewish National Fund.
Dr. Tal is an Associate Professor of Environmental
Policy at Ben Gurion University, and has held
faculty appointments at Tel Aviv and the Hebrew
Universities in Israel, and taught at Harvard
and the University of Otago, New Zealand. He
is chairman of the committee for sustainable
development on the international board of the
Jewish National Fund and represents Israel's
Foreign Ministry at the United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification.
- Tuesday, February 6, 7:30 p.m.
Palo Alto JCC, 4000 Middlefield Rd., Palo
Alto.
- Wednesday, February 7, 7:30 p.m.
JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco.
Israel Update
is a unique program. Our knowledgeable guests
will discuss current events in Israel, providing
context and analysis that goes behind the headlines.
Each month will feature a different topic and
a special guest. (In English)
An Isarel Center program, co-sponsored with
the San Francisco JCC, the Jewish Community
Relations Council, the Jewish Community Federation
of the Greater East Bay, Congreation Emanu-El,
the Peninsula JCC, the Palo Alto JCC, and Congregation
Rodef Sholom.
*Mabat Sheni- Second Look in Hebrew. Named
after an Israeli '60 Minutes' - like TV news
magazine.
For more information: 415.512-6203
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The
Consulate General of Israel in San Francisco
is proud to bring you:
VOICES
FROM ISRAEL
Lecture Series
Info: The Consulate
General of Israel 415.844.7504 / www.israeliconsulate.org
 Young
writer Alon Hilu, winner of 2006 Presidential
Prize for literature
Alon Hilu is a young Israeli novelist.
His first novel, Death of a Monk offers an original
homosexual interpretation for the historical
blood libel against the Jews in Damascus, Syria
in 1840. Death of a monk won the prestigious
Presidential Award for literature in Israel
and was among the finalists to the 2005 Sapir
prize. More...
16-19 October, 2006.
Times and locations TBA
 Amos
Guiora, Law Professor and expert for legal aspects
of counter-terrorism
Law Professor
and Director of the Institute for Global Security,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
Ohio
Professor Guiora is an expert on national and
international security and counter-terrorism
policy. In his lectures he deals with legal
aspects and global perspectives of counter terrorism,
terror financing and international law and morality
in armed conflict. As an expert commentator,
he is frequently interviewed and quoted and
has been published in the national and international
media, including CNN, The Washington Post, The
NY Times, BBC, Fox TV and more. Professor Guiora
held a number of senior command positions in
the Israel Defense Forces including Commander
of the IDF School of Military Law and Judge
Advocate for the Navy. More...
22-25 October, 2006. Times
and locations TBA.
 Women
in Israel 2006
The Israel Women
Network: Chairperson Rina Bar-Tal & Executive
Director Avital Shachar
The Israel Women’s Network (IWN), Israel’s
foremost advocacy group for women’s rights
and a UN affiliated NGO, works to promote women's
rights as equal partners in a just and democratic
society. Chairperson Bar-Tal and director Shachar
will talk about women in Israel 2006 and will
present IWN’s work in promoting legislation
and providing legal representation, educational
programs and leadership training for women in
Israel. More...
Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 2006. Times
and locations TBA.
 "The
Journey of Vaan Nguyen"
Screening and
discussion with filmmaker Duki Dror
Duki Dror, one of the most innovative young
directors in Israel today, reveals in his documentary
the absurdities of Vaan Nguyen’s life as an
Israeli-born Vietnamese. Vaan's father is a
Vietnamese refugee that escaped the war and
was given an asylum in Israel during the 1970's.
The film documents the Nguyens' journey to the
home they left in Vietnam trying to reclaim
their confiscated lands, a journey that becomes
a parable on the loss of identity and on the
fate of refugees and immigrants. More...
November 12-16. Times and
locations click
here.
Info: The Consulate
General of Israel 415.844.7504 / www.israeliconsulate.org
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Deborah
E. Lipstadt: History On Trial
Historian Deborah E. Lipstadt discusses
History on Trial, a powerful account of her much-publicized
libel case in London against David Irving, who
sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier.
Thursday, September 07,
2006. 8:00 pm. Jewish Community Center
of San Francisco. 3200 California Street (at Presidio),
San Francisco. www.
Jccsf.Org / 415.292.1237 / Taubecenter@Jccsf.Org
Co-Sponsored
with The Holocaust Center Of Northern California
And The Jewish Community Relations Council (Jcrc)
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 Donna
Rosenthal
Award-winning journalist
and author of THE ISRAELIS: Ordinary People in
an Extraordinary Land
Israel. It looks like one country on CNN, a very
different one on al Jazeera. The BBC has its versions.
The New York Times theirs. But
how does Israel and the current conflict look
to Israelis?
Donna Rosenthal was inspired to write THE ISRAELIS
when a CNN producer (her former journalism student)
asked her: "Our viewers are confused. We
have footage of Jews who look like Arabs, Arabs
who look like Jews. We have black Jews, bearded
16th century Jews and sexy girls in tight jeans.
Who are these people, anyway?"
More: DonnaRosenthal.com
or TheIsraelis.net
Thursday, September 14,
2006. Wine Reception 5:30 pm, pProgram
6:00 pm. The Commonwealth Club of California.
595 Market Street (at Second) San Francisco (outside
the Montgomery Bart Station). Call 415. 597.6706
for reservations or visit: www.commonwealthclub.org
Co-sponsors: Jewish
Community Relations Council, Consulate General
of Israel, The Israel Center. |
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Aliya:
Three Generations Of American-Jewish Immigration
To Israel
Author Leil Leibovitz,
a 9th-generation Israeli, seeks to answer the
questions of why American Jews make aliya by examining
the stories of three different families.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006.
7:30 pm. Bureau of Jewish Education Jewish
Community Library, 1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco.
More info: 415.567.3327 x703, or email Rkatz@Bjesf.Org.
Free and open to the public, no RSVP required.
Free parking at Pierce St. entrance.
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The
Digital Classroom
Focus
on the half-century leading up to the creation
of the State of Israel in 1948.
The Digital Classroom with teacher
- Ken Cohen will focus on the half-century (or,
some might say, the three millennia!) leading
up to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
We will explore the historic relationship of the
Jewish people to the land of Israel; the Zionist
idea in the crucible of czarist Russia; Theodor
Herzl and political Zionism; practical Zionism
and the second aliyah; The British Mandate and
the new middle east; Zionists, Arabs and the struggle
for Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s; civil war
and the war of independence; America and the Soviet
Union; and, the twin refugee crises of the late
1940s.Using various state-of-art media packages,
including the Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
Interactive DVD-ROM, our classroom will be enlivened
visually in ways that dramatize the exhilarating
story of Israel’s gestation and birth.
Friday, November 07, 2006.
7:00 am. Congregation Emanu-El,. : 2
Lake Street, San Francisco. www.Emanuelsf.Org,
415. 751.2541 #129, or email Irina, Info: Adultlearning@Emanuelsf.Org
.Course fees $120.
Co-Sponsored
with Congregation Emanu-El And Lehrhaus Judaica
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Lonely
Soldier: The Story Of An American In The Israeli
Army
Author
Adam Harmon
Adam Harmon, an American-born-Israeli
served for 13 years as a paratrooper in the IDF.
Wednesday, November 15,
2006. 7:30 pm. Contra Costa Jewish Community
Center, 2071 Tice Valley Blvd. Walnut Creek. Riva@Jfed.Org,
or call 510.839.2900 X253.
Sponsored
by the Jewish Community Federation Of The Greater
East Bay And The CCJCC
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Jewish
National Fund Breakfast
Jewish National Fund
Temple Beth Jacob’s Israel Action
Committee
and the Israel Center
Invite you to a special program to celebrate and
promote
“Advocacy
and Activism for Israel”
Featuring Guest Speaker
Dr.
Yossi Olmert
Journalist and top Middle
East scholar, Mr. Olmert will speak on the current
situation in Israel
The breakfast is to raise awareness
and funding an Israel Advocacy and Activism program
for high school students in the Peninsula/Bay
Area called Caravan for Democracy High School
Edition, a Jewish National Fund project.
Dr. Yossi Olmert is a well-known
expert on the modern Middle East, Islamic militants,
terrorism and the Palestinian issue and is the
brother of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
He received his Ph.d from the London School of
Economics and graduated from The Hebrew University.
Dr. Olmert has held several senior positions
in the Israeli government including Director of
Communication for former Prime Minister Shamir
and Policy Advisor to Defense Minister Arens.
He was sent on numerous diplomatic missions, participated
in the Madrid peace conference and was a member
of the Israeli delegation for peace talks in Syria.
Sunday, October 29, 2006. 10:00 am, 9.30
am Registration. Temple Beth Jacob, 1550
Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City. Catering
by Milk and Honey (dietary laws observed). $18.00
per person. Kindly reply by Thursday, October
19. Space is limited. All funds raised will support
Caravan for Democracy High School program to teach
Israel Advocacy. For more information contact
the San Francisco Bay Area JNF office at 415.677.9600. |
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 Rabbi
Joseph Asher Lecture with Professor Reuven Firestone
How
do we see each other?
Classic and Contemporary Views of
Jews and Muslims Toward the Other.
Wednesday, November 29,
2006, 7:30 p.m.
Congregation Emanu-El, 2 Lake Street, San Francisco.
www.Emanuelsf.Org.
Info: 415. 751.2541 #115, or email Judy Leff at
Jleff@Emanuelsf.Org.
Admission is free/no reservations necessary .
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 Amos
Oz: Israel: Between Love and Darkness
Senior Israeli author (A Tale of
Love and Darkness) returns to the Bay Area for
The Jewish Community Endowment Fund Lecture.
Monday, January 22, 2007,
8:00 p.m. Free admission.
Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University.
Info: 650.725.0577, www.stanford.edu
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Charles
Michael Annual Lecture with Prof. Paul Liptz
“Ethnicity and Religion in the
Modern Middle East.” Professor Paul Liptz is a
social historian who lectures in the Department
of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv
University, & in Europe.
Wednesday, January 31,
2007, 7:30 p.m. Free Admission.
Congregation Emanu-El, 2 Lake Street,
San Francisco.
Info: 415.751.2541 #115, or email
Judy Leff at
Jleff@Emanuelsf.Org. www.Emanuelsf.Org.
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David Behar: Conversations on Museums
Israeli artist David Behar, whose
multi-disciplinary work ranges from sculpture
to science, installations to architecture, photography
to sound objects, talks about his site-specific
projects, engaging the spectator and museum architecture.
Thursday, February 8, 6:30
p.m.
Judah L. Magnes Museum, Russle St., Berkeley.
Info and tickets ($6-$8): www.magnes.org,
www.davidbehar.net,
510.549.6950. |
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Daven (Pray),
Dine And Discover: How Ancient Israel Touches
Modern Israel
Friday evening services and Shabbat
dinner followed by a lecture by Uri Harash about
how Israel's past informs the present and future.
Friday, February 9, services
at 6:45 p.m., dinner at 8:00 p.m., presentation
at 9:00 p.m.
Berkeley Hillel, 2736 Bancroft Way, Berkeley.
Info and booking: info@lehrhaus.org,
510.845.6420, www.lehrhaus.org.
Sponsored
by: the Israel Center. |
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 Author
Maya Arad in Conversation (in Hebrew)
Arad’s first two novels (Another
Place and a Strange City, 2003 and The Deserted
Righteous, 2005) were written in verse and heralded
a new style in Israeli literature. The third novel,
written in prose, is titled Seven Deadly Virtues
and was published in 2006.
Thursday, February 15,
12 noon. Free admission.
Location TBA.
Info: 650.725.0577, www.stanford.edu. |
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 Harmony
in the Middle East with Noa Sattath
Noa Sattath is the executive director
of the Jerusalem
Open House. This is an LGBT community center,
located in the home of three of the world's great
religions and the capital of Israel. The Open
House seeks to show that Jews, Christians, and
Muslims can live together in harmony in the Middle
East.
Tuesday, February 20, 1:30
p.m.
Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco
State University, San Francisco.
Info: 415.512.6425.
Wednesday, February 21,
2:00 -3:00 p.m.
Hillel Chapel, 2736 Bancroft Way, Berkeley.
Info: 415.512.6425.
Co-sponsors:
the Israel Center, Israel Coalition at San Francisco
Hillel, EGAY, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. |
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 Gidi
Grinstein Israeli
National Security at a Crossroads
..."As the Israeli strategist Gidi Grinstein
put it, Hamas 'is like a snake that swallowed
an elephant'. It has a lot to digest before it
can move sharply in any direction."
- Thomas Friedman, 02/15/2006
Sunday, February 25, 2007, 7:30 .p.m.
Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero
Rd., Los Altos Hills.
Info & RSVP: Sara
Bronstein, 650.619.3513, www.betham.org/
Sponsored by the Friends
of Israel Committee of Congregation Beth Am and
the Israel Center.
Gidi Grinstein
, founder and president of The Re'ut Institute.
Gidi served in the Office and then in the Bureau
of PM Barak as the Secretary and coordinator of
the Negotiation Team of the Government of Israel
to the Permanent Status negotiations between Israel
and the PLO (1999-2001). Gidi has extensive background
in policy-planning in the ECF (1995-99, 2002-03);
is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government (2002) and Tel-Aviv University Schools
of Law (1999) and Economics (1991). Gidi is a
Captain (Res.) in the Israeli Navy. The Re’ut
Institute is a unique, non-partisan Zionist think-tank
designed to strengthen the vision of the State
of Israel as a Jewish, democratic and prosperous
state. Our approach is structured to enhance the
Government of Israel’s capacity to generate
effective, systemic long-term policies.
About Re'ut
The word “Re’ut” in Hebrew
means sight or vision. The Re’ut Institute
is an Israeli, Tel Aviv-based think tank:
Zionist - Our work serves the
goal of strengthening the Zionist Vision to meet
the Jewish state’s evolving challenges in
the second century of the Zionist endeavor.
Think-tank - We create systemic,
long-term analysis on current policy issues. We
focous on bridging gaps between policy and reality.
Non-partisan - We are not associated
with any political party or movement, thus we
are able to work with any elected government.
Our team and experts are of diverse political
affiliations coming from all levels of government,
non-profit, and for-profit organizations.
Non-profit - The Re’ut
Institute is a registered, not-for-profit, non-governmental
organization. We are funded by individuals and
foundations interested in the vitality of the
Zionist Vision and the State of Israel. |
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 Yigal
Schwartz
The head of the Hebrew Literature
department at Ben Gurion University, Schwartz
is among the most fascinating authorities on contemporary
Israeli literature.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007.
open to the public.
Stanford University, TBA.
Info: 650.725.0577, www.stanford.edu.
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 David
Horovitz: Report from Jerusalem
The editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem
Post provides a distinctive view of Israeli current
affairs.
Thursday, March 15, 8:00
p.m.
JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco.
Info and tickets ($8-$10): www.jccsf.org,
415.292.1200.
Sponsored
by: the Israel Center. |
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The Prophets of Ancient Israel: Then and Now
Lehrhaus Judaica’s course situates
the prophets within the society and religion of
ancient Israel with historical, geographical and
anthropological perspectives.
February 26 - March 26,
2007, five sessions, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Pacific School of Religion, GTU, Berkeley.
Info and booking: info@lehrhaus.org,
510.845.6420, www.lehrhaus.org.
Sponsored
by: the Israel Center. |
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 The
Many Faces of Israel in Film and Music
Lehrhaus Judaica’s course follows
the Israeli journey, from fledgling idealist society
to its current secular incarnation, through world
music and films.
March 7-28, four sessions
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Temple Isaiah, Lafayette.
Info and booking: info@lehrhaus.org,
510.845.6420, www.lehrhaus.org
www.temple-isaiah.org.
Sponsored
by: the Israel Center.
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 World
Class Israeli Art Show, Sale & Lectures
Week-Long Exhibition
of the Largest Collection of Israeli Art to Tour
the US.
Congregation Beth Am will be the exclusive 2007
Northern California venue for a unique Israeli
art show and sale featuring over 100 different
artists. The showcase will include paintings,
sculpture, Judaica, silver/gold jewelry and other
art in a broad range of styles from contemporary
to traditional. The EXPRESSIONS Art Showcase includes
well-known Israeli artists like Agam, Tolla Inbar,
Ruth Bloch, Frank Meisler, Sakstier Baruch, and
many new, upcoming talents.
Click here
for a special art-oriented and Israeli cultural
events are planned at Congregation Beth Am during
the week of March 25-30.
March 24 - 30, 2007.
Saturday, March 24, 2007. 6:30 p.m. -
9:00 p.m. Gala Preview Reception. Ticket
purchase required.
Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Rd., Los
Altos Hills.
Info: Call Ellen Ratner, 650.948.7714,
www.betham.org/IsraeliArtExpo
or email kukulus@sbcglobal.net.
 Proceeds
from all purchases will go directly to Israeli
artists, except for the portion of each sale that
will be donated to charities such as Magen David
Adom, the Friends of the IDF, Beth Am Women, and
the Jewish Community Federation’s Israel Emergency
Fund.
Co-sponsored
by: the Israel Center
Sunday,
March 25 – Donna Rosenthal,
award winning journalist and author of The Israelis:
Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land will
speak twice:
4:30 p.m. - They sing hip-hop
in Hebrew, watch more MTV than anyone else; and
most are drafted after high school ... “So what's
it like being an Israeli teenager?”
7:00 p.m. - It looks
like one country on CNN, a different one on al-Jazeera
or in The New York Times. “But how does Israel
look... to Israelis?”
Monday, March 26 at noon & Wednesday,
March 28 6:00 p.m. –Alan Brues, Art Collector
and Qualified Independent Appraiser, will speak
about “Buying and Selecting Art: for Novice and
Sophisticated Private Collectors.”
Tuesday, March 27 at noon – Michal Gavish,
Israeli artist recently exhibiting at San Francisco
MOMA, speaks about “Cultural Rebirth - Contemporary
Art in Israel.”
Tuesday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. – Jonathan
Carey, founder and executive director
of BlueStar PR, will talk about “The Art of Persuasion:
The Real Problem with PR for Israel.”
Thursday, March 29 at 4:15 p.m. – Major
Assour, Israeli sculptor and curator
of the EXPRESSIONS collection, will lead “The
Curator’s Tour of EXPRESSIONS Showcase of Israeli
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 Dr.
Raanan Gissin
Dr. Ra’anan Gissin serves as a strategic
consultant, commentator and lecturer on a variety
of topics related to the Middle East, and Israel.
Until 2005, Gissin was Senior Advisor to former
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Subsequently
he has served for current Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert. Dr. Gissin received his Phd in Political
Science and Public Administration from the Syracuse
University in New York.
A fifth generation Israeli, born in Kibbutz Hasollelim,
Dr. Gissin’s distinguished career began
in 1979 as a Strategic Analyst in the Planning
Division. At that time, he was involved
with the planning and implementation of the Sinai
withdrawal. During most of the 1980’s,
which included the war in Lebanon and the “Intifada”
in the territories, he served as IDF spokesman.
Also in 1991, he served as a special advisor to
the Israeli Delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference
and the subsequent negotiations with Arab and
Palestinian delegations in Washington D.C.
After retiring from active duty in 1993, Dr. Gissin
initiated and organized the Pension 200 Conference
in Israel with senior Israeli economic leaders
and top fund executives and investors from the
United States.
In recent years he has continued to serve as
one of Israel’s leading spokesman for the
foreign press and the International community
on security and strategic issues, and the peace
process. He has been an active spokesperson
on behalf of JNF’s Caravan for Democracy
Program.
Thursday, March 29, 2007.
7:00 p.m. - light supper buffet,
8:00 p.m. - program.
Congregation B'nai Tikvah 25 Hillcroft Way, Walnut
Creek.
Info: Jewish National Fund at
415.677.9600 or at hfeldman@jnf.org.
Friday, March 30, 2007.
7:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m Breakfast and address.
Concordia Argonaut Club 1142 Van Ness Ave., San
Francisco.
Please RSVP by March 20: 415.677.9600
or at hfeldman@jnf.org.
Friday, March 30, 2007.
Shabbat Service and address.
Temple Beth Jacob Redwood City, 1550 alameda De
Las Pulgas, Redwood City.
Info: Jewish National Fund at
415.677.9600 or at hfeldman@jnf.org. |
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|  Etgar
Keret
Israel's most acclaimed young author
and screenwriter, Keret will read from The Nimrod
Flipout, his latest collection in English, which
blends magical realism with the mundane.
On
Talking Fish and Hairy Soccer Loving Girlfriends
(a conversation and film excerpts)
Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 p.m. Free admission.
Building 420, Room 041, Stanford University.
Info and tickets: 650.725.0577,
www.stanford.edu.
On
Bus Drivers and Lesser Gods: Tales from Contemporary
Israel.
Thursday, April 12, 12:00 Noon. Free Admission.
Olson Hall 207, UC Davis. Map
The Nimrod Flipout: in conversation
with Ben Ehrenreich (The Suitors)
Thursday, April 12, 8:00 p.m.
JCCSF, 3200 California (@ Presidio), San Francisco.
Info and tickets ($8-$10): 415.292.1200,
www.jccsf.org.
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Etgar
Keret
Israel's most acclaimed young author
and screenwriter, Keret will read from The Nimrod
Flipout, his latest collection in English, which
blends magical realism with the mundane.
On
Talking Fish and Hairy Soccer Loving Girlfriends
(a conversation and film excerpts)
Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 p.m. Free admission.
Building 420, Room 041, Stanford University.
Info and tickets: 650.725.0577,
www.stanford.edu.
On
Bus Drivers and Lesser Gods: Tales from Contemporary
Israel.
Thursday, April 12, 12:00 Noon. Free Admission.
Olson Hall 207, UC Davis. Map
The Nimrod Flipout: in conversation
with Ben Ehrenreich (The Suitors)
Thursday, April 12, 8:00 p.m.
JCCSF, 3200 California (@ Presidio), San Francisco.
Info and tickets ($8-$10): 415.292.1200,
www.jccsf.org.
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 The
Israel Center Presents:
Dr. Tom Segev: 1967
40 Years to the Six-Day War
From
Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history
of 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year
that Transformed the Middle East.
Copies of the
book will be sold (and signed) at the event.
Dr. Tom Segev’s acclaimed works One
Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million
overturned accepted views of the history
of Israel. Now, in 1967 - a number-one
bestseller in Hebrew—he brings his masterful
skills to the watershed year when six days of
war reshaped the country and the entire region.
Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates
the crisis in Israel before 1967, showing how
economic recession, a full grasp of the Holocaust’s
horrors, and the dire threats made by neighbor
states combined to produce a climate of apocalypse.
He depicts the country’s bravado after its
victory, the mood revealed in a popular joke in
which one soldier says to his friend, “Let’s
take over Cairo”; the friend replies, “Then
what shall we do in the afternoon?”
Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, as
well as government memos and military records,
Segev reconstructs an era of new possibilities
and tragic missteps. He introduces the legendary
figures - Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Gamal Abdul
Nasser, and Lyndon Johnson - and an epic cast
of soldiers, lobbyists, refugees, and settlers.
He reveals as never before Israel’s intimacy
with the White House as well as the political
rivalries that sabotaged any chance of peace.
Above all, he challenges the view that the war
was inevitable, showing that a series of disastrous
miscalculations lie behind the bloodshed.
A vibrant and original history, 1967
is sure to stand as the definitive account of
that pivotal year.
Quotes
“Today we know that Israel’s triumph
in 1967 was a Pyrrhic victory. Tom Segev’s
1967 makes that more clear than anything
written on the subject . . . Segev documents this
historic tragedy brilliantly, authoritatively,
as no one has before.”—Amos Elon,
Ha’aretz
 Author
Biography
Dr. Tom Segev is a columnist
for Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading newspaper,
and the author of three now-classic works on the
history of Israel: 1949: The First Israelis;
The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust;
and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs
Under the British Mandate, which was a New
York Times Editors’ Choice for 2000.
He lives in Jerusalem.
Saturday, May 5, 2007. 4:00 p.m.
Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Rd., Los
Altos Hills.
Info: www.betham.org
Thursday, May 10, 2007,
8:00 p.m. $8 / JCC member, $10 / public.
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco,
3200 California (@Presidio), San Francisco.
Info: 415.512.6293. Tickets
: 415.292.1233 / JCCSF
Co-sponsored
by: the Academic Consortium
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New
Trends in Global Jihadi Terrorism and Challenges
to Combating Terrorist Efforts
 Dr.
Boaz Ganor founded the Institute for Counter Terrorism,
an Israel-based think tank that aims to raise
awareness of trends in terrorism, advise decision
makers and conduct research. The ICT is building
the world's only publicly accessible database
of terrorist organizations and attacks.
Friday, May 11. 12:00 Noon. Free!
Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St, 2nd Floor, San
Francisco.
Info: www.commonwealthclub.org |
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Jerusalem
through the Ages
 A
biblical archaeologists point of view as presented
by Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology
William G. Denver, Ph.D.
Wednesday, May 16. 7:30 pm. Free!
Congregation Emanu-El. 2 Lake St, San Francisco.
Info: RSVPs are requested by
May 11: 415.369.2861 / vivians@sfjcf.org |
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Pluralism
and Israel Through the Eyes of a Bedouin Israeli
 Deputy
Consul General Ismail Khaldi will discuss
the various cultures and religions of Israel,
including his own Bedouin background growing up
in the village of Khawalid in the Western Galilee
of Israel .
Tuesday, May 29. 7:30 pm. Free!
Congregation Beth Emek - 3400 Nevada Ct, Pleasanton.
Info: www.bethemek.org
/ 925.931.1055.
Thursday, May 31. 6:00 pm.
Commonwealth Club, 595 Mark | | | |
