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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

Steve Lightle of Ebenezer Emergency Fund is the bestselling author of Exodus II and Operation Exodus II.  

Steve, a former businessman from Seattle, has lived in Israel and, as a keynote speaker, now travels the world extensively.  Being an onsite intercessor, he has witnessed the breakup of Communism in the former Soviet Union, the rebuilding of Israel, and current turmoil in many nations.    For 25 years since its start, Steve has been actively involved with Operation Exodus assisting Jewish migrants return to Israel.  

Steve has a message for both Christians and the Jewish people today.  He will be sharing insights into the deep current issues in the Middle East, the re-gathering of the exiles of Israel, the spiritual battle entailed, and the importance of intercessory prayer.  Also, amazing testimonies of the Lord’s valiant intervention on behalf of His Jewish people.

If you’ve not heard of Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, you’ll wonder how that could have been once you’ve seen what he does in this film. For dance aficionados, this is surely the most anticipated artist portrait since Wim Wenders’ Pina.

“A spectacular and celebratory investigation of a modern dancer’s creative process, this documentary tracks the four decades-long career of renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin, the artistic director of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company. Thoughtfully and painstakingly researched, the film is packed with visually arresting archival footage from every stage of Naharin’s professional (and personal) life…

Choreographed pieces move in kinetic bursts from the rehearsal studio to the stage and, in interviews, dancers who’ve worked with him and colleagues from different periods offer insights in terms both admiring and blunt. Naharin is similarly expressive – about… the joys of physical expression, his struggles to convey his vision to those tasked with embodying it and the dance-world backdrop against which he developed his singular choreographic style and movement language, known as Gaga.

Heymann, a veteran documentarian whose filmography includes an earlier work about Naharin, skillfully constructs a portrait from these elements, methodically adding layers and sometimes revisiting previously seen footage, arming the viewer with new revelations and a more complicated understanding.” — Lynn Rapoport, San Francisco International Film Festival