Meretz USA
114 West 26th St. #1002
New York,
NY,
10001
Fax: (212) 242 5718 mail@meretzusa.org
Events
Sunday November 15, 2009
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Pease join Meretz USA on Sunday, November 15th at 5:00pm at the JCC Manhattan for the Other Israel Film Festival presentation of Sayed Kashua - Forever Sacred
Israel, 2009, 56 minutes
Director:
Dorit Zimbalist
Despite being one of Israel's leading columnists, novelists and screenwriter, Sayed Kashua feels he doesn't belong. The Jews don't like him because he's an Arab. The Arabs don't like him because he's successful. The Arabs think he's a collaborator. The Jews think he's a drunk. He's always the "other" and he's always scared. This intimate portrait follows Kashua over seven years through the upheavals and events that change his life, wandering from place to place, from nation to nation, belonging neither here nor there.
Venue: The JCC Manhattan (Click for directions)
To buy tickets click here
Monday November 16, 2009
Start: 8:30 am
End: 10:00 am
Join us for a Breakfast and Discussion with
Dan Fleshler: Transforming
America's Israel Lobby
Monday, November 16, 8:30 a.m.
Jerry's Famous Deli
10925 Weyburn Ave., 2nd Floor Meeting Rm.
Westwood Village
RSVP to apnwest@peacenow.org or 323-934-3480
Cost - $15 (includes breakfast buffet)
Dan Fleshler is a media and public affairs strategist based in New York whose recent book, Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change, offers insight into the shifts taking place in the pro-Israel American Jewish community, including growing dissent against what he calls the "conventional Israel lobby." He is on the Advisory Council of the new lobbying group, J Street, and a Board Member of Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu.
Former Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis has written that Fleshler's book "dispels many myths while facing squarely some perennial dilemmas faced by peace-seeking American Jews, and outlines a pro-peace, pro-Israeli, pro Palestinian and pro-American road forward for them to take." A leading analyst and adviser on the pro-Israel left, Mr. Fleshler will share his thoughts about the prospects for peace and the role of the American Jewish community in bringing it about.
Sponsors: Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, J Street, Meretz USA, New Israel Fund, Workmen's Circle (Arbeter Ring)
Friday December 4, 2009
Start: 8:00 am
End: 9:30 am
Please join us for a breakfast program:
Promoting Peace Between Israel and Palestine
with special guest:
Ambassador Philip Wilcox
Distinguished U.S. Diplomat (ret.) & President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace
Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:00 a.m.
Factor's Deli - Private Back Room
9420 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles 90035
Bagel Breakfast - $10 (pay at door)
RSVP to apnwest@peacenow.org or 323-934-3480
Ambassador Wilcox served 31 distinguished years as a U.S. diplomat, many of then related to Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East. Ambassador Wilcox was head of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, Director for Israeli and Arab-Israeli Affairs and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs, and Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Counter Terrorism.
