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92Y: Israeli U.S. Amb. Ron Dermer Israel's Amb. to Washington, Ron Dermer, discusses a range of issues relating to the State of Israel in conversation with novelist and Director of the Forum on Law, Culture and Society. From the 92nd Street Y in NYC. Sunday - 8pm & 1:30am; Monday - 10pm & 4am; Wednesday - 10:30am; Friday - 8pm & 1am; Saturday - 3pm

AZM: Gil Troy-U.S. Zionism Historian and author Gil Troy (The Zionist Ideas) discusses "The Future of Zionism In America." From the 2019 American Zionist Movement Biennial Assembly, Unity and Community: Bringing Together the Many Voices of Zionism in New York City. Monday - 8pm & 1am; Wednesday - 2pm; Saturday - 8pm & 1:30am

ITN: Poway Murder - Thane Rosenbaum JBS President Mark S. Golub offers his commentary on the horrific murder of Lori Gilbert-Kaye and the wounding of three others in a Chabad synagogue on Passover, and novelist Thane Rosenbaum (Director of Forum On Law Culture and Society) shares his reaction to the tragedy. Sunday- 8:30am

FOR YOM HAZIKARON - DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

L'Chayim: Esther Wachsman Esther Wachsman, mother of kidnapped Israeli soldier, Nachshon Wachsman, talks about the failed rescue attempt to save her son's life and the painful dilemma Israel confronts when it must decide when to trade imprisoned Palestinians for Israeli soldiers. Tuesday - 3pm

L'Chayim: Israel Sorrow/Heroism Miriam Peretz ("Miriam's Song") describes her experience as a mother who lost two sons in the war with Palestinians while each was serving in the IDF's elite Golani Brigade - and how she has transcended her sorrow.

Tuesday - 9pm & Midnight

Yom HaZikaron Siren Join symbolically with the People of Israel as the Jewish nation stands in silence during a one minute of a national siren at 8pm Israel time (1pm New York time) and during for two minutes the next day at 11am Israel time.
(JBS will also sound the siren at 8pm and 11am New York time in solidarity with Israel.) Tuesday - 1pm & 8pm ; Wednesday - 4am

Natan Alterman's "The Silver Platter" - recited by Mike Burstyn Natan Alterman's 1947 poem The Silver Platter, traditionally read in Israel for Yom HaZikaron, is recited by Israeli star of stage, screen and television Mike Burstyn. Following Sound of Siren

FOR YOM HAATZMAUT - ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY

Hero Of 1948 War Joe Aboudi, an 18-year old member of the Palmach in 1948, recounts how he helped stop the Egyptian advance in the Negev during the days leading up to Israel's War of Independence. Monday - 9pm & Midnight

L'Chayim: Operation Aliyah Bet Murray Greenfield, founder of Gefen Publishing and author of The Jews' Secret Fleet, describes his participation in the naval operation know as "The Exodus," which smuggled Holocaust survivors into pre-state Palestine in defiance of the British naval blockade. Wednesday - 3pm

Witness To Statehood For Israel's independence day, fifth generation Sabra Rochelle Etingin recounts her experience as a young girl growing up in Israel during the birth of the Jewish State of Israel. Wednesday - 9pm & Midnight; Thursday - 3pm

L'Chayim: Abba Eban In a L'Chayim classic for Yom Ha'atzmaut, Abba Eban z"l (1915-2002), best known for his years of service to Israel in the UN, recounts his involvement in the Zionist dream and the dramatic moments leading up to the creation of the modern Jewish State. Thursday - 9pm & Midnight; Friday - 3pm

L'Chayim: Commander Lebovitz Eugene Aryeh Lebovitz, commander of troops in Haifa during the 1948 War of Independence, reminisces about his survival at Auschwitz, his running the British blockade, and his ongoing work on behalf of Israel and Jewish life. Saturday - 6pm

LIVE THURSDAY – 6 pm CELEBRATING YOM HAATZMAUT Join JBS as Rabbi Mark S. Golub takes viewer phone calls and plays videos celebrating Israel Independence Day. LIVE Thursday - 6pm

Inside Israel Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference is Tal Ben-Shahar's documentary film that explores the positive characteristics of Israeli society from a humanistic, psychological, and emotional perspective. By Imagination Productions. Tuesday - 2pm; Saturday - 1pm

Jake Ehrenreich Show-Ron Eliran & Mamita Jake welcome Israel's Ambassador of Song Ron Eliran who performs some of his most well-known songs (including Sharm el Sheikh), and Vanessa Hidary (The Hebrew Mamita) who recites her powerful poem on Jewish identity. Jake also inducts Steve and Eydie (z"l) Gorme into the Catskills Hall of Fame. Sunday)- 10:30pm & 2:30am; Friday - 10:30am

Israel Journey A magical journey through the modern state of Israel, centered on the beauty, mystery, and spirituality of Jerusalem. "Berel Wein's Israel Journey: Jerusalem" is hosted by Wayne Kopping and was produced by the Destiny Foundation. Thursday - 10:30am; Saturday - 9pm & Midnight

Mordechai Becher: Talmud - "Our Historic Homeland"; Talmud - Promise of Aliyah" Sunday- 9am; Tuesday - 9am & 4:30pm; Thursday - 7pm & 4am

ITN: Poway Murder - Eye Witness Shimon Abitbul, Deputy Director of the Israeli Magen David Adom in Kiryath Shmonah, who was visiting his daughter in Poway, CA for his grandson's brit milah, describes the scene at the Chabad Synagogue during the murderous attack. Today (Sunday) - 5:30pm & 11:30pm; Monday - 3:30am, 8:30am & 12:30pm

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92Y: Fauda (Issacharoff & Raz)

Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz discuss their Israeli hit TV series "Fauda" which follows a commando unite operating on the West Bank and which airs in the United States on Netflix. With Tatiana Siegel (Hollywood Reporter) at the 92nd Street Y in NYC.
Sunday - 8pm & 2am; Monday - 10pm & 4am; Wednesday - 10:30am; Friday - 8pm & 1am; Saturday - 3pm

Deborah Lipstadt: On Antisemitism

Professor of Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust and Antisemitism: Here and Now, presents her view of antisemitism in America today. A program of The Streicker Center at Temple Emanu-El in NYC. (2019) Monday - 8pm & 1am; Wednesday - 2pm; Thursday - 10pm & 1am; Saturday - 7pm & 4am

L'Chayim: Singer Julie Budd

Cabaret star Julie Budd, who began her career at age 12 in the Catskills, discusses her Jewish identity and her feelings for Israel; and discusses her perspective as a successful performer and her relationship to Frank Sinatra. Monday - 9pm & Midnight; Tuesday - 3pm

Jake Ehrenreich Show-Ron Eliran

On the first Saturday night of May, Jake welcome Israel's Ambassador of Song Ron Eliran who performs some of his most well-known songs (including Sharm el Sheikh), and Vanessa Hidary (The Hebrew Mamita) who recites her powerful poem on Jewish identity. Jake also inducts Steve and Eydie (z"l) Gorme into the Catskills Hall of Fame. Saturday - 8pm & 1:30pm; Next Sunday - 10pm & 2am

On L’Chayim This Week

Tal Keinan - Jewish Future Sunday) - 6pm; Monday - 3pm

Ernie Michel z"l - Kristallnacht Tuesday - 9pm & Midnight; Wednesday - 3pm

Simon Wiesenthal z"l - Nazi Hunter Wednesday - 9:30pm & 12:30am; Thursday - 3:30pm

Elie Wiesel z"l - At 85 Thursday - 9pm & Midnight; Friday - 3pm

Yaakov Daniel - Star of Fauda Saturday - 6pm

ITN: NYU Awards SJP (Tuchman)

Susan Tuchman, Dir. of the Center for Law & Justice of the Zionist Organization of America, responds to the decision of NYU to give a Presidential Service Award to the BDS campus organization Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP). Sunday - 8:30am & 5:30pm

ITN: New Israeli Government?

The political correspondent for the Times of Israel, Haviv Retig Gur, discusses the political landscape in Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu is asked to form his fifth coalition government. Sunday - 11:30pm & 3:30pm; Monday - 8:30am & 12:30pm

For Yom HaShoah (all in Eastern Daylight Time)

Sunday

Film: Auschwitz Escape - 9pm; Film: Eagles Over Auschwitz - 10:02pm

TUESDAY

9am - Talmud: Morality In The Shoah; 7pm- Stories of a Survivor (Moshe Avital); 8pm - Buried By The NY Times (Leff); 8:30pm - Kristallnacht: Lessons Forgotten (Thane Rosenbaum); 9pm - Ernie Michel: Kristallnacht; 10pm - Kristallnacht 75th Anniversary

WEDNESDAY

9am - Jewish 101: Is it God's Fault?; 6:30pm - Why Yom HaShoah; 7pm - Yom HaShoah Commemoration; 8pm - Anne Frank's Stepsister; 9pm - Elie Wiesel's Night; 9:30pm - Simon Wiesenthal; 10pm - Jewish Cinema: Six Million & One

THURSDAY

9am - Holocaust Archive; 9:30am - Holocaust Museum; 7pm - Talmud: Morality In The Shoah; 8pm - Children of the Holocaust; 9pm - Elie Wiesel at 85

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Yom Ha'atz Miami

Thursday, May 9, 2019 | 8pm

Get ready for The Tribe’s most anticipated party of the year –Yom Ha’atz Miami! Celebrate Israel’s independence day in true Miami fashion, at the W Miami Rooftop overlooking the Brickell skyline. Enjoy an epic night of music by DJ Eran Hersh, cocktails, henna tattoos and more.

Join us on May 9th for an unforgettable experience celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut!

8:00pm: 1-Hour Sponsored Bar | 9:00pm: Cash bar, Drink Specials, and Hors D’oeuvres.

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• Comp Drinks 8-9pm
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• Food
• Israeli Snacks & Swag
• Henna Tattoos

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Celebrate Israel 71 with your community on May 9th (6pm-10pm) with music, singing, dancers. Special performances and choral arrangements. Shopping and food available from various vendors. A portion of proceeds raised will benefit Leket Israel, the National Food Bank of Israel.

Marketplace Vendors welcome to participate, please contact Mark Flaxer in the synagogue office, (305) 937-1880 for details.

Join the PJ Our Way Kids' Committee for a thrilling escape room experience based on the book "Click Here to Start"!

May 5 at 4 pm at the South Beach Escape Room - 235 Lincoln Rd.Suite 400 Miami Beach Fl 33139

RSVP here: https://jewishmiami.org/resources/community_directory/events/rsvp/pj_our_way_escape_room_team_project_rsvp/

On April 13, Temple Judea, one of Miami’s largest Reform congregations, honored Holocaust survivor David Schaecter, and his wife Sydney Schaecter, at their premier fundraising Gala at the synagogue, 5500 Granada Blvd., in Coral Gables. Entitled L’Chaim, To Life!, the sold out Gala celebrated the lives of these two unique individuals. 350 people attended and the Gala raised $230,000. Gala Co-Chairs were Linda & Michael Bittel and Bella & Jay Newmark.

Holocaust survivor David Schaecter is a founding member of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach. Born in a small village in Czechoslovakia, Schaecter was a young boy when the Nazis rose to power in Germany and is the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. Sydney Schaecter’s contributions to the South Florida Jewish community have been recognized for more than 40 years dating back to her board leadership positions at the South Dade area office of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the Alper JCC.

Now celebrating 70 years of Jewish Learning and Living in Coral Gables, Temple Judea is one of Miami’s largest Reform synagogues with approximately 600 member families.

Photo credit: Claudia Storper Photography

Photo ID L-R: Brian Siegal, AJC; Rabbi Judith Siegel, Temple Judea; Israeli Consul General Lior Haiat; Sydney Schaecter, Honoree; David Schaecter, Honoree

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92 ND Street Y: Mandy Patinkin

Star of stage, screen and television, Mandy Patinkin (Homeland, Evita, Princess Bride, Yentl), reflects upon his Tony, Emmy & Golden Globe winning career with novelist Thane Rosenbaum. JBS television exclusive from the 92nd Street Y in NYC. Sunday - 8pm & 2am; Monday - 10pm & 4am; Wednesday - 10:30am; Friday - 8pm & 1am; Saturday - 3pm

Jewish Cinema: Michal Aviad

Israeli filmmaker Michal Aviad, who looks at Israeli society from a woman's point of view, explains how her movie "Working Woman" highlights the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace. On JBS's "Jewish Cinematheque" with Eric Goldman, a leading scholar in Jewish film. Monday - 7:30pm & 2am; Wednesday - 1:30pm; Saturday – 10:30pm

IsraAID: Seth Davis

Seth Davis, Executive Director of IsraAID USA, describes how IsraAID saves lives during crisis and supports local and national organizations as they build the future. A program of the Jewish Federation of Northern NJ and JCRC's "FED Talks" from JFNNJ in Paramus, NJ. Monday - 8pm & 1am; Wednesday - 2pm; Saturday - 7pm & 4am

Mayor of Efrat: Oded Revivi

The Mayor of the West Bank city of Efrat, Oded Revivi (who also heads the Efrat Municipal Council and is Chief Foreign Envoy of the YESHA Council - the umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements on the West Bank), discusses how his community is seeking to "Build Bridges, Not Barriers." A program of the Zionist Organization of America. Tuesday - 8pm & 1am; Thursday - 2pm, 10pm & 1am; Saturday - 8pm & 1:30am

L'Chayim: Tal Keinan (Parts 1 & 2)

Israeli financier and former IDF fighter pilot Tal Keinan, author of God Is In The Crowd, explains why he sees American Jewry on the decline and in danger of "dying in its sleep," and offers suggestions for revitalizing Jewish life today.

Part 1 Wednesday - 9pm & Midnight; Thursday - 3pm

Part 2 Thursday - 9pm & Midnight; Friday - 3pm

Uri Regev - Judaism In Israel Today (Sunday) - 6pm; Monday - 3pm

Michael & Sue Ashner - "Beit Ruth" Home For Girls In Israel Monday - 9pm & Midnight; Tuesday - 3pm

Yishai Fleisher - Defending Israel Tuesday - 9pm & Midnight; Wednesday - 3pm

Irv Ungar - The Work of Arthur Szyk Saturday - 6pm

Edith Samers Vice President 203.536.6914 (cell phone) JBS Jewish Broadcasting Service, a 501c3 fulltime television channel

Join us for a special Mother's Day. An event supporting the women and children at JCS Shalom Bayit Jewish Domestic Abuse Program

Sunday May 5, 10:00am Beth Torah Beny Rok Campus

Space is limited REGISTER HERE

On April 25 at 8:30 am at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC (One Biscayne Tower Two South Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 1500), join us for quality time with a true expert. Ask him everything you wish you had time to ask your pediatrician. Learn the secrets to getting your baby to sleep through the night and so much more! RSVP here: https://jewishmiami.org/resources/community_directory/events/rsvp/pjlibrary_sleep_other_hacks_free_rsvp/.

Join the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach on Sunday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m. to commemorate Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day. The powerful program includes an eyewitness account from a survivor, a candle lighting ceremony and musical selections.