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CAMPUS PROGRAMS
Speaker: Shai Bazak,
Consul-General of Israel to New England
Shai Bazak was born and raised in Jerusalem. Having served in several IDF combat units, he served as spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Bazak was then Consul General of Israel to Florida & Puerto Rico.
He was a founder of the North American organization Nefesh B’nefesh, the CEO of a high-tech private investment company in Israel - Old City Group - as well as a professor of media at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Mr. Bazak was appointed Consul General of Israel to New England in August, 2010. He lives in Boston with his wife and their two-year-old twin daughters. |  |
Taglit-Birthright Israel Documentary Screening
 | Mifgash: Encountering Jewish Identity in the 21st Century tells the story of Hillel Bus 740 with students from Boston University on their ten-day Taglit-Birthright Israel trip and highlights the challenging, enlightening, and ultimately life changing moments as the participants question, reflect, and grapple with their own Jewish identity. Primary trip footage is brought into a broader context through interviews with important figures involved in developing, sustaining, and running Taglit-Birthright Israel. They share the often overlooked history, significant achievements, and foreseen future struggles of the program. |
| If you would like to screen this 61-minute film at your campus, featuring a Q & A session with the director of the film, please visit the Mifagsh website |
"Improv" your Israel Connection!
   “Brian’s program is the type of program that Hillels strive to find. The students loved it… it is like hitting the programming jackpot.” - Samantha Taylor, Program Director, Central Florida Hillel
| You can borrow a model that works for Fortune 500 companies and bring it to your campus for Israel advocacy and programming events! Yes, that’s right, Fortune 500 companies are leveraging improvisation theater techniques to strengthen all sorts of skills from communication to teamwork. You can do the same on your campus with an Israel focus. On Both Feet helps Jewish and Israel-related nonprofits improve communication, collaboration and leadership using improv techniques … while laughing along the way. Organizations hire On Both Feet for…
No experience necessary. Actually, your experience is necessary! That is to say, all you really need are your instincts and unique way of looking at the world. Laugh along the way! In our workshops, people create their own laughter and enjoy a whole lot of funny! Everyone plays a part. (Yes, even the shy, reserved guy.) Get your people up On Both Feet!
To Bring On Both Feet to your organization or learn more, contact: Brian or visit OnBothFeet.com |
Unmasked Screening
UNMASKED Judeophobia examines the political assault against the Jewish people and their right to self-determination. Jews are facing a threat much greater than a military threat in the battlefield or a traditional terror threat in our urban centers. They are facing the possible uprooting of the very idea that there should be a nation state of the Jewish people.
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Israel Through the Lens with Nir Landau
 | Nir Landau is a freelance photographer specializing in photojournalism, based in Boston, MA.
After graduation from Masa Acher School for photojournalism in Tel Aviv, Nir took an immediate interest in social documentary and conflict. From 2008 until 2009, he worked as senior photographer for Israel's largest news website, covering the social foundations of urban Tel Aviv. Being on call 24/7 and up to the beat of Israel's vibrant news feed, he found himself frequently in the heart of humanitarian and historical events. |
The workshop "Israel Through the Lens" is a window to Israel through the eye of an observer. Working as a photojournalist, Nir has formed a collection of photographs which tell a political, social, and cultural story about Israel. This collection reflects the essence of Israel's diverse society, its changing landscape, historic sites and traditions. Photojournalism uses images in order to tell a story. We will be analyzing the photos in search of that story.
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To bring Nir to your campus, please contact him!
Israel Art Projects with Diana Gilon
Diana Gilon is an American/Israeli artist and art instructor currently based in New York City. She received her BFA from the Parsons School of Design in 2003 and began her professional career in 2006, participating in exhibitions in Israel and New York. Her work is part of many reputable, private collections including Bank Ben Leumi’s and Boston University’s Rubin Frankel Gallery and has been written about in Israeli publications, such as the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz. Diana’s dual Israeli-American citizenship and heritage greatly influence her artwork and teaching techniques.
Participation in her projects includes…
Diana’s projects are open to campuses and organizations around the United States and abroad. Some of her upcoming projects include Haifa University and Wadi Nis Nas neighborhood in Israel, this winter. |  Mural Project at Northeastern University |
A Night in Tel Aviv
The Jewish Student Union at UMass-Amherst recently partied as they would in Tel Aviv: with a night of fun, good music, entertaining personalities, glow sticks, and dancing all night long. Additionally, students learned about study abroad programs in Tel Aviv. 
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Israeli Stage brings Israeli Theater
to American Universities
Israeli Stage is a theater organization that presents Israeli plays in English to create and foster a personal connection to Israel through art.
Israeli Stage has produced sold-out staged reading events at the Goethe Institut Boston under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Guy Ben-Aharon, an Israeli theater producer and director based in Boston. Israeli Staged Productions have featured IRNE Award and Elliot Norton Award winning actors Thomas Derrah, Jeremiah Kissel, and Will LeBow, Professors Bret Silverman (of the Boston Conservatory) and Craig Mathers (of Emerson College), amongst others. |   |
Free Hebrew Tutoring
| You know the alef-bet, but you'd like to be able to speak conversational Hebrew. Or maybe you've never been trained in Hebrew, but would like to be able to read along with your friends? We have Hebrew tutors for you! If you are a student in the Greater Boston area, please fill out the form below and we will send a Hebrew tutor your way -- free of charge. |
Israeli Cultural Programming With Gordon Dale
 | Israel Arts Night: The Jewish connection to Israel has been a main theme in the arts for thousands of years. This program consists of a presentation which will inspire students to understand and deepen their connection to Israel, as well as inspire them to create new works in music, poetry, visual art, dance, or any other artistic medium.
The participants will then have the opportunity to present their work to each other and to the public at an Israel Arts Night where the artists will show their compositions.
Israeli Popular Music and the Conflict: This presentation looks at the past ten years of Israeli history by examining popular music that has been inspired by the conflict. Music is an excellent window into the various opinions of Israeli society, which will help students understand the nuances of the conflict. Students will come away with a better understanding of the challenges that Israelis face today, as well as a new appreciation for Israeli music.
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It's Possible in the Mid-East: Gay Rights in Israel
 Presentation at Northeastern University | As a gay Jew, Matt Hoffman has known the challenges of being a "double minority." The unique experiences brought forth from this circumstance has led Mr. Hoffman to research the legalities and social customs surrounding gay rights in Israel and the Middle East. Sourced with magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and movie clips, this interactive presentation informs students of the varied actualities of gay life in the Middle East -- ranging from open acceptance and burgeoning gay rights movements to the death penalty and torture. To bring this presentation to your campus, please contact Matt Hoffman |
The X-Ray Project: Inside Terrorism
INSIDE TERRORISM is a photography exhibit which uses actual X-rays and CT-scans from the two largest hospitals in Jerusalem to explore the most important social issue of our time: the effects of terrorism on a civilian population. "I feel that it's important to focus our sympathy and our compassion on the victims of terrorism, and to spend a little bit less time obsessing about people who perpetrate these acts." - Diane Covert, Founder, X-Ray Project |
To bring this program to your campus, please contact Diane Covert
Holocaust Remembrance & Genocide Awareness
 Click here and
enter code FBC5708F to receive your complimentary historic newspaper covering the Holocaust 
| Each Spring, communities around the world remember the 6,000,000 men, women and children murdered by the Nazis and their European accomplices six decades ago. It is important for college students to make space for this dialogue on campus, particularly because the Jewish people and other peoples remain targets of internationally-publicized, genocidal regimes throughout the world. Holocaust studies student and speaker Matt Lebovic is available to come to your campus to hold a discussion about the Holocaust and related issues. He is also able to work with campus groups to bring in a local Holocaust survivor, and set up and fund a book discussion program. | ||
Flowers for Peace
  | The ICR has partnered with several species of Israeli wildflowers to bring the "Flowers for Peace" campaign to Boston. Winter may be wretched, and ongoing, but people throughout Boston have started to grow their FREE Israeli wildflowers - indoors. The seeds will start to sprout after just a week - in a little white cup like when you were a kid, or even in your old gym shoes - wherever! There's nothing like Israeli wildflower seeds to chase away the New England winter blues with Israeli reds, whites and purples! Some local Hebrew School students are even growing their Israeli wildflowers to sell for donations to Israeli charities. Or give them as a gift for an upcoming holiday, such as Mother's Day! There is no end in sigh as to how creative you can get with YOUR special seeds! Order FREE today - email Matt Lebovic |
Israel Activist Resource Library
 | The ICR has access to an array of books and publications about Israel, including the latest titles as well as titles from the past century of Zionism and Israel. We are happy to mail you a book per your request from this Israel Activist Resource Library, free of charge. You can return the book to a CJP Campus Coordinator, pass it on to a friend, or mail it back to the Library. We are also able to order and distribute new titles in an effort to provide students with the most timely and relevant literature. Examples of current titles in the Israel Activist Resource Library include: · Palestine Betrayed - Efriam Karsh · Why Blame Israel? - Neill Lochery · The Truth About Syria - Barry Rubin · The Transforming Fire - Jonathan Spyer · Hebron Jews - Jerold Auerbach · The Case for Peace - Alan Dershowitz |
New York Times Birthday Newspaper
| May 15th, 1948 New York Times Birthday Newspaper Celebrating Israel’s Birth Click here and place code FBC5708F to receive your complimentary historic newspaper covering Israel’s establishment. Thousands of these historic newspaper have been distributed to Boston area students. It’s their opportunity to re-live history. |
Colors of the Holy Land Pastels
| A Colors of the Holy Land workshop includes an artist leading a 20-minute slideshow of Holy Land landscape and nature scenes for inspiration, followed by each participant making their own Holy Land pastels.
These pastels can be based on the participant's own photos. All supplies are included in the workshop. Programs are customized for different sized groups and include, for instance, Hebrew and Jewish learning, or the topography of the Land of Israel. The pastels can include writing in English, Hebrew, or no writing at all. |
