Israel Affairs Committee Israel Movie Night - ONE WEEK AWAY! Sunday 11/3 @ 7:30 PM in the MJC Dining Room. Free to members and $7 at the door for non-members. Refreshments provided. Fill the Void - 2012 Venice Film Festival winner for Best Actress (Yaron), and selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards. Eighteen-year-old Shira, the youngest daughter of the family, is about to be married off to a very promising young man of the same age. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, dies during childbirth, leaving her husband to care for the child and postponing Shiras promised match. When the girls mother finds out that Yochay may leave the country with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower, which leaves Shira to choose between her hearts wish and her familys wish to keep the child with them. Sunday 12/8 @ 7:30 PM Waltz with Bashir - details will be in the mid-November newsletter FUTURE DATES - All on Sunday ay 7:30 PM January 8th, February 2nd, March 2nd, April 6th, June 8th The Israel Connection - Your Opportunity to Learn About Israel All remaining sessions shown below are on Wednesday Evenings from 7 PM SHARP -8:30 PM in the MJC Dining Room. Please join us for the next session(s). Session Four - The Palestinian - Israeli Conflict 101 - 10/30/13 Reviews the history of the land through map presentations with interactive exercises, and identifies the origins, main themes and historical milestones of the conflict. Session Five - Constructing and Deconstructing Narratives - 11/6/13 Explores the concept of competing narratives (Israeli & Arab) where we look at what the writer is trying to say, what we hear and what is the truth. Session Six - Using our Skills - 11/13/13 Participants will have the opportunity to practice the skills learned in the previous sessions. For more information or to sign-up, e-mail julesdcohn@aol.
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