Here is a calendar of upcoming events, up and down the country. Some are organized by us, others by like-minded organizations and groups.
2015 marks the first year that Jews from the Western World dominated Israeli Immigration statistics. Is this the beginning of a major change?
What drives a person to uproot themselves from a comfortable existence in Britain and make a new life in the unknown in Israel? What do they find? How well do they get on in Israel?
Come & Meet Stuart and Hasja Palmer
Thursday 14 JAN 2016 @7.30PM
LIFEPOINT CHURCH WELLINGTON
Stuart Palmer is a retired Engineer who made aliya from the UK in 1981. He worked for some years as an International Marketing Manager in the North of Israel.
Since retiring, he has become the Director of ICAN (International Citizens Action Network) and is Chairman of CoHaV (Coalition of Hasbara Volunteers) www.cohav.org an umbrella organization of over 100 various advocacy groups around the world.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communications at Bar Ilan University and a member of the advisory committee for the Haifa University program, “Ambassadors Online”. Stuart has appeared as a commentator on TV and lectures to visiting groups of tourists, army volunteer, officials and others in Israel and offshore.
He is with his wife on holiday in NZ and is the guest of NZ Friends of Israel (NZFOI).
Lifepoint Church
61 Hopper St
Mt Cook
Wellington
Koha Admission
RSVP Joanna Moss (NZFOI) by 12 Jan
E: joannamoss12@clear.net.nz
T: (04) 802-5956
M: (022) 154-7865
Thursday 21 JAN 2016 @7.30PM
Stuart Palmer
Northwood Villa clubrooms
O’Neill Ave
Northwood
Christchurch
2015 marks the first year that Jews from the Western World dominated Israeli Immigration statistics. Is this the beginning of a major change?
What drives a person to uproot themselves from a comfortable existence in Britain and make a new life in the unknown in Israel? What do they find? How well do they get on in Israel?
About the Speaker
Stuart Palmer is a retired Engineer who made aliya from the UK in 1981. He worked for some years as an International Marketing Manager in the North of Israel.
Since retiring, he has become the Director of ICAN (International Citizens Action Network) and is Chairman of CoHaV (Coalition of Hasbara Volunteers) www.cohav.org an umbrella organization of over 100 various advocacy groups around the world.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communications at Bar Ilan University and a member of the advisory committee for the Haifa University program, “Ambassadors Online”. Stuart has appeared as a commentator on TV and lectures to visiting groups of tourists, army volunteer, officials and others in Israel and offshore.
He is with his wife on holiday in NZ and is the guest of NZ Friends of Israel (NZFOI).
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is an international memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million Jews, 2 million Gypsies (Roma and Sinti), 15,000 homosexual people and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 during the 42nd plenary session.
We are having another sausage sizzle at Shirley Bunnings on Marshland Road.
Each sausage sizzle has been a wonderful opportunity to meet the public, raise awareness of Israel, the Middle East and Jewish culture.
The funds will go toward furthering Holocaust Education and fighting racial intolerance.
If you can help out for a morning or afternoon, then feel free to email us on contact@nzfoi.org or call (027) 433 9745
BEHOLD THE MAN
Dwight Pryor
Sunday 2 pm, 14 February 2016
Northwood Villa Clubrooms, O’Neill Avenue, Northwood, Christchurch.
Reconnecting Christianity with its Hebrew roots has become a significant activity for NZFOI as it fights Christian Anti-Semitism.
As part of that activity, NZFOI has purchased several sets of the highly regarded introductory bible study course, Behold the Man.
There has been significant interest in the study with many requests for us to screen the first session so that members can gauge its quality for themselves.
You need wait no longer, as we will be screening it at our February meeting in Christchurch.
Please bring a plate of finger food
A TIMELESS STORY FOR ALL HUMANITY
Sunday 2 pm, 20 March 2016
Northwood Villa Clubrooms, O’Neill Avenue, Northwood, Christchurch.
The story of Queen Esther and how she thwarted Haman’s plan to suppress the Jewish people because they would not acknowledge the supremacy of Babylonian thought and practice is well known, yet the impact it has had on modern history and its lessons for a current generation are often overlooked. This year, the Festival of Purim begins at nightfall on March 23.
Please bring a plate of finger food
For location details see also: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/the-university/how-university-works/campuses-locations-transport/maps/arts-1-building.html.
Join us for a highly informative and interactive presentation by acclaimed Professor Yoram Barak on a survey of the available evidence, observations and hypotheses on how Alzheimer’s Disease might be prevented. This is the second in a 2-part series of lectures.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Yoram Barak is an assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel-Aviv University, and director of the Psychogeriatric Department at the Abarbanel Mental Health Center. Trained in medicine and psychiatry at the Sackler School of Medicine, he became an Israel Medical Scientific Council Specialist in Psychiatry in 1993, and was awarded a Masters in Health Administration from Ben-Gurion University of Beer-Sheva, Israel in 2004.
Dr. Barak is also a consultant for the National Multiple Sclerosis Center in Israel and a special consultant on Positive Psychology for the Israel Defense Forces. He was president of the Israeli Association of Old-Age Psychiatry, and is currently on the editorial board of the Israel Journal of Psychiatry and the Open Psychiatry Journal. Research interests include multiple sclerosis, cancer, depression, schizophrenia, obsessive–compulsive disorder, suicide and geriatric psychiatry. He has published extensively in these areas, and is author and co-author of over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles.
He is currently on Sabbatical and teaching at the Otago University School of Medicine in Christchurch.
VENUE: Northwood Villa Clubrooms, Northwood Villas Cres, off O’Neill Ave, Northwood, Christchurch
WHEN: 2pm, Sunday, July 3, 2016
ADMISSION: Please bring a plate of finger food, we’d be grateful if you could avoid pork or seafood products.
FEEL FREE TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY