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It’s that time of the year again folks.

Please submit nominations for Committee members and President one week beforehand, being 5pm Sunday 14 August.

After the formalities are over, we will be showing the movie “The Concert.”

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“The Concert” is a 2009 French comedy-drama film by Radu Mihăileanu, starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou.

It is about the redemption of a former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra, known as “The Maestro,” Andrey Simonovich Filipov, who had had his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for defending Jewish musicians and is reduced to working as a mere janitor in the theatre where he once conducted, becoming an alcoholic in the process.

It won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010. It was also nominated for two Magritte Awards in the category of Best Film in Coproduction and Best Editing for Ludo Troch in 2011, and Best Foreign Film at the 68th Golden Globe Awards.

Please bring a plate of finger food.  We’d be grateful if you avoided pork or seafood products.

CHRISTCHURCH: An evening with Steve Lightle

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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.

AUCKLAND: Guta Goldstein, Holocaust Survivor: July 6

Poster for HOPE 2016 Guta Goldstein's talk at Auckland University 6 July

 

Map showing building where HOPE 2016 talk held at Auckland University on 6th July

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.

WELLINGTON: Holocaust Survivor: Guta Goldstein

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CHRISTCHURCH: Holocaust Survivor: Guta Goldstein

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CHRISTCHURCH: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: What we know so far: Part 2

Barak, Yoram

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

Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: What we know so far: Part 1

Barak, Yoram

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.

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, May 22, 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

Purim: A Timeless Story for all Humanity

Esther

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

CHRISTCHURCH: Behold the Man

 

Pryor, Dwight

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

CHRISTCHURCH: BRITISH JEWS MAKING THE DECISION TO LEAVE BRITAIN: ENCOUNTERING A STRANGE NEW WORLD

Jews in UK
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).

 

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