NZ Friends of Israel Association Inc
Fighting racial intolerance in New Zealand and beyond
A number of Christians have banned together to put on a Passover 3-course meal at 220 Antigua St, 7th April 5.30pm to explain the significance of this wonderful rich biblical holiday.
Limited spaces available. $30 a head. If you would like to register please email Simone for a registration form.
This is a great opportunity to book a table and invite your friends or just come and join in.
CHRISTCHURCH: The Joy of Hosting Israeli Travellers
2pm, Sunday 11 March 2018
Clubrooms, Northwood Villa Cres, Northwood. (-43.465134, 172.617633)
New Zealand is one of the top travel destinations for Israelis. To Israelis it is a much talked of country full of huge contrasts from their own: peaceful, temperate, green and offering spectacular vistas.
At the same time, many New Zealanders who support Israel and fight anti-Semitism, meet very few Jews and have had very little contact with them.
HIT is a homestay programme that allows young Israeli backpackers to meet New Zealanders in their homes and experience Kiwis in their own environments.
You are invited to an afternoon with Omri Jaakobovitch, founder of HIT. Hear about how you can participate in this programme and how it is growing internationally.
Admission: A collection will be taken to cover expenses; A plate of finger food for afternoon tea. Please no pork, bacon or seafood ingredients.
On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets.
Numbers 29:1
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year festival and commemorates the creation of the world. It lasts 2 days. The traditional greeting between Jews is “L’shanah tovah” … “for a good New Year”.
Rosh Hashanah is also a judgement day, when Jews believe that God balances a person’s good deeds over the last year against their bad deeds, and decides what the next year will be like for them.
God records the judgement in the Book of Life, where he sets out who is going to live, who is going to die, who will have a good time and who will have a bad time during the next year. The book and the judgement are finally sealed on Yom Kippur.
That’s why another traditional Rosh Hashanah greeting is “Be inscribed and sealed for a good year” .
A lot of time is spent in the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, when there are special services that emphasise God’s kingship.
One of the synagogue rituals for Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the Shofar, a ram’s horn trumpet. A hundred notes are sounded in a special rhythm.
New Year isn’t only celebrated in the synagogue, but at home too. A special meal is served, with the emphasis on sweetness.
Apples are dipped in honey, as a symbol of the sweet New Year that each Jew hopes lies ahead. A sweet carrot stew called a tzimmes is often served.
And at New Year the Jewish Hallah (or Challah) bread served comes as a round loaf, rather than the plaited loaf served on the Sabbath, so as to symbolise a circle of life and of the year.
There’s often a pomegranate on the table because of a tradition that pomegranates have 613 seeds, one for each of the commandments that a Jew is obliged to keep.
On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets.
Numbers 29:1
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year festival and commemorates the creation of the world. It lasts 2 days. The traditional greeting between Jews is “L’shanah tovah” … “for a good New Year”.
Rosh Hashanah is also a judgement day, when Jews believe that God balances a person’s good deeds over the last year against their bad deeds, and decides what the next year will be like for them.
God records the judgement in the Book of Life, where he sets out who is going to live, who is going to die, who will have a good time and who will have a bad time during the next year. The book and the judgement are finally sealed on Yom Kippur.
That’s why another traditional Rosh Hashanah greeting is “Be inscribed and sealed for a good year” .
A lot of time is spent in the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, when there are special services that emphasise God’s kingship.
One of the synagogue rituals for Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the Shofar, a ram’s horn trumpet. A hundred notes are sounded in a special rhythm.
New Year isn’t only celebrated in the synagogue, but at home too. A special meal is served, with the emphasis on sweetness.
Apples are dipped in honey, as a symbol of the sweet New Year that each Jew hopes lies ahead. A sweet carrot stew called a tzimmes is often served.
And at New Year the Jewish Hallah (or Challah) bread served comes as a round loaf, rather than the plaited loaf served on the Sabbath, so as to symbolise a circle of life and of the year.
There’s often a pomegranate on the table because of a tradition that pomegranates have 613 seeds, one for each of the commandments that a Jew is obliged to keep.
You’re invited to Hanukkah in the Park at the Botanical Gardens, Soundshell in Wellington.
Bring your picnic blankets and the whole family to Hanukkah in the Park.
There’s going to be a Candle lighting ceremony, kosher food, live music, children’s entertainment and games.
There’s going to be plenty of Sufganyot (doughnuts)!
Admission: Free
Date and time: Sunday, December 17, 11am-2pm
Sponsored by the Israeli Embassy to New Zealand.
You’re invited to an evening with the Ambassador of Israel, Dr Itzhak Gerberg.
Deputy Mayor Mr. Kelvin Clout and the Ebenezer Emergency Fund are sponsoring his visit and we expect a large number at Holy Trinity Church on the corner of Devonport Road and 3rd Avenue, Tauranga at 7 pm sharp start. There will be a light supper and a koha will be taken for defraying expenses and supporting Aliyah.
If you have interested people who would like to come, please feel free to invite them but there will be no notice in the paper.
Come for a great evening with music and dance as well as hearing the Ambassador who will have a Q&A session also.
Date and Time: Monday, December 4, 7pm sharp.
Venue: Holy Trinity Church, 215 Devonport Rd, Tauranga
Contacts:
Susan Bell – (021) 143 7262
Dorothy Finlay – (07) 570 1196
Hosted by Ebenezer Emergency Fund, NZ — Operation Exodus.
