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Start: 5:00 pm
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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.

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Venue: The JCC Manhattan (Click for  directions)

To buy tickets click here

 

 

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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)

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Start: 8:00 am
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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.

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