Celebrate the season! Help us build a Chanukah Light Sculpture in Washington Square Park.
Help The New Shul create a public Light Sculpture in the heart of Greenwich Village that will shine a light on the miracle of Chanukah and send a message of hope and peace to our community and the world. Dance to the music of THE SHUK, sing some Chanukah songs, keep warm with a cup of steaming hot chocolate and taste tradition with a delicious potato latke! This is a free event.
Bring your family and friends—all are welcome!
Where:Near the Washington Square Park Fountain When:Friday, December 11 @ 6pm
Member Oren Moverman's movie The Messenger opens this weekend. Oren will be doing some Q&A's at the theaters this weekend; it is opening at the Angelica and Lincoln Plaza.
From the review in this week's New Yorker:
In “The Messenger,” Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), an Army lifer with a shaved head and a face like a cement block, and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a coiled, secretive Iraq-war hero, work together in one of the most difficult jobs in the armed services: informing parents and spouses that a loved one has been killed. They tell them immediately, hard upon the death, before the news can appear on the Internet or in the local paper. Messengers? For the families, the sternly polite men, arriving at the door in bemedalled uniforms and tilted berets, seem to be death itself. There’s an excruciatingly obvious but unavoidable irony here: “The Messenger” has also taken on the unwelcome task of telling its audience what it doesn’t much want to hear—how families are devastated by war. Yet the film is neither dutiful nor solemn. This is a fully felt, morally alert, marvellously acted piece of work. Despite the grim subject, it’s a sweet-tempered movie, with moments of explosive humor—an entertainment.
The picture was written not by Americans but by two foreign-born men working in Hollywood—Alessandro Camon, an Italian, and Oren Moverman, the director, who is a four-year veteran of the Israeli military. If these two missed certain shades of American colloquial speech, my ear didn’t detect it. The movie is by turns loquacious and raptly silent, and Moverman, directing for the first time, is tremendously talented at handling actors; he gives them the time and the space to work out characters who have layers and corners and shadows. We get to know these men well, yet we still think of them as mysterious.
At Club Shabbat, we'll get into the Shabbat groove with the help of Raz and David (plus his guitar!). Open to children of all ages!
Pizza, challah and grape juice will be served.
When: Friday, November 13
Time: 6:15-7pm
Where: VCS
Parents are invited to join in the fun or to check out our main service in the auditorium. Club Shabbat will continue with children programming until the main service is finished. Spread the word - all are invited.
College students that are members of NYU's Iranian Jewish Club have teamed up with the Modeling Club to host their 2nd Annual Benefit Fashion Show!! Please join these neighbors of ours for an elegant and exciting evening showcasing some of NYC's finest designers on Saturday night, November 14th from 8:00pm till 11:00pm. The event will be at 60 Washington Square South in NYU's Kimmel Center, 10th floor Rosenthall Pavillion. Enjoy exquisite desserts, pleasant music, and most importantly, chic, sophisticated fashion. Celebrate the Persian Jewish culture and help them reach their goal of $10,000 for Save a Child's Heart! For more information about the event, please www.icjny.com
There's also a pre-party! Join Arts on the Move and the Iranian Jewish Club at New York University on Thursday, November 12th from 7:30pm till 9:30pm at The Bronfman Center (7 East 10th Street) for a pre-fashion show extravaganza of wine, cheese, and live jazz music as we showcase the opening photography gallery exhibit of Save a Child's Heart.
All proceeds from these events go to Save a Child's Heart (http://www.saveachildsheart.org/). Save a Child’s Heart is an organization that supports the implementation of medical treatment centers in developing countries to ensure that every child receives proper medical treatment regardless of race, nationality, religion, or financial situation. $10,000 is the amount of money needed to cover the entire cost of transportation, surgery, and care of a child in need of life-saving cardiac surgery. Please help save ONE child's heart by coming to the gallery event and the fashion show or by visiting the donation page.
For more information, please visit the facebook page or contact Natan Edelsburg at 646-528-7202 or natan@nyu.edu.
Celebrate the season! Help us build a Chanukah Light Sculpture in Washington Square Park.
