The American Israel Public Affairs Committee & Temple Kol Ami cordially invite you to Israel in the Media: Beyond the Headlines featuring author and journalist Matti Friedman.
Matti Friedman is the author of Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story, a war memoir of the often forgotten events that took place in the 1990s at the Pumpkin, a small military outpost in Lebanon. His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize, the American Library Association’s Sophia Brody Medal, the Canadian Jewish Book Award and other honors. It was published in Israel, Australia, Holland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia and South Korea.
Friedman’s reporting has taken him from Israel to Lebanon, Morocco, Moscow and the Caucasus, and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. He is a former Associated Press correspondent and a regular contributor to Tablet Magazine. Two essays he wrote about media coverage of Israel after the 2014 Gaza War, for Tablet and The Atlantic, triggered intense discussion and have been shared together on Facebook more than 100,000 times. He was born in Toronto and lives in Jerusalem.
Join us for a fascinating lecture and discussion at Temple Kol Ami.
Please visit www.aipac.org/PHXEOC/ to register or call 602-277-3318.
Event Details
Cost: $18 (Advanced registration required: please RSVP by September 8)
Date: Wednesday, September 14
Location: Temple Kol Ami (15030 N 64th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85254)
Time: 6PM Registration & Reception | 6:30PM Program
September 7: Rabbi Robert Eisen presents “The Testament of Abraham”
September 14: Rabbi Ruven Barkan presents “Teshuva and The 12 Steps”
September 21: Cantorial Soloist Nichole Chorny presents “Nusah: The Melody Which Gives Meaning”
3-week series $18 per person PLUS food donation for the Community Food Bank. Please bring item(s) to class. RSVP required by Sept. 2.
Discussion with the Rabbi Thurs., Sept. 15 | 11 a.m.-noon Valley of the Sun JCC – 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale 85254 Join Rabbi Levi Levertov for stimulating discussion on Judaism. A collaboration with SOS. Reservations are encouraged. For more registration information, please contact Chani at 602.492.7670 or chani@sosaz.org.
Let’s Eat Mature Mavens Dinner Thurs., Sept. 15 | 5 p.m. Meet for dinner, socialize and make new friends. Dinner is separate checks. Please contact Andrea at 623.715.3930 or andi20@cox.net for current schedule of restaurants and to reserve your place.
NowGen Happy Hour
Thurs., Sept. 15| 6-8 p.m.
The Bee’s Knees – 2401 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix 85016
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix’s NowGen for young Jewish adults. Engage, network and have fun at the newly renovated Camby Hotel! The Jewish Genetic Disease Center will provide information about its upcoming screening. For more information about NowGen and its events, visit facebook.com/nowgenphx.
All new, returning, and prospective Beth El Women’s League members are welcome to attend an internationally-themed dinner and “Meet Your Sisters” event.
Our event will feature a presentation by Emily Garber on, Jewish Genealogy: Myths and Opportunities. “Our name was changed at Ellis Island.” “Our shtetl was wiped off the map during World War II.” If these and other stories in your family have kept you from starting family history research, be assured, there’s a great deal to discover. Emily Garber, member of the Phoenix Jewish Genealogical Society, published author and recent traveler to her families’ shtetlach in Ukraine, will discuss the advantages of overcoming the myths and discovering the facts in Jewish genealogical research.
Please invite any female friends and relatives that are interested in learning more about our group. Contact Alicia to make your reservations at 602.944.3359 ext. 113 or amoskowitz@bethelphoenix.com.
| Discussion led by AZJHS Executive Director,
Lawrence Bell, Ph.D It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in ways large and small, and foreshadow the difficult conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Pumpkinflowers is a reckoning by one of those young soldiers now grown into a remarkable writer. Part memoir, part reportage, part history, Friedman’s powerful narrative captures the birth of today’s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor and media images can be as important as the battle itself. |
Music & Me! A parent and child music class every Friday morning at the EVJCC. Taught by Hannah Creviston, Assistant Professor of Music at ASU, she uses an innovative curriculum to aid in developing musical potential of young children ages newborn through 18 months.
Celebrate Shabbat at The J each Friday morning with singing and blessings in the art gallery, a special lunch discount for participating parents and children and play space fun immediately following. Once a month we take our Shabbat celebration “on the go” to various locations in the Tucson community. All ages are welcome! For more information, contact Julie Zorn by email, jzorn@tucsonjcc.org or 520-299-3000 ext 236. Locations to be announced.
This interactive and upbeat Shabbat celebration for families incorporates fun-spirited melodies and family-themed activities. We’ll share Shabbat dinner, followed by Open Lounge in the Youth Center with games and fun. Come celebrate Shabbat with ruach (spirit) and your congregational family! Dinner $25 per family (two adults & up to 4 children) and/or adults (13+) $10 per person. RSVP needed by Sept. 12.