The Simpsons travel with Flanders to the Holy Land, and an eccentric tour guide (Sasha Baron Cohen) takes the group to Jerusalem’s most famous landmarks.

Check for show times in your area.

Come by our display in the main concourse of the SUB and UBC any day this week to check out our awesome display showcasing the many many features of Israel.

Our Kickoff Event: Movie at the Gallery with PRIDE UBC!!!
–> FREE entrance FREE popcorn!!!

The Schedule for the Week:

Tuesday April 6th: Movie screening with PRIDE UBC
–> Norm Theatre at UBC
- “Yossi and Jagger” screening followed by a discussion with Dr. Tal Jarus and Avital Halak.
- FREE entrance FREE popcorn!!!

Wednesday April 7th: Israeli Hot Lunch
–> Hillel lounge room 218, VST @ UBC

PB AND J ATHON, OUTSIDE THE SUB 10-4. Do a Mitzvah, come by and help feed the poor!!!

Thursday April 8th: THE better place PROJECT @ THE GALLERY!
–> Gallery Pub, UBC @ 6:00 pm
- Find out what Israeli company, Better Place, can do for green change here in BC
- GREEN PARTY, GREEN BZZR
- FREE drinks for those who come early!

Friday April 9th: Annual Soldiers’ Panel
–> Henry Angus Building Room 098
- Come listen to the personal stories of several ex-IDF soldiers and participate in the engaging and moving Q&A

Hope to see you all there!

Free Admission + Free Popcorn

UBC’s Israel Awareness Club and PRIDE UBC team up to screen “Yossi and Jagger” as part of IAC’s annual Israel Week. Join us for an entertaining movie followed by an enlightening discussion with Dr. Tal Jarus.

Dr. Tal Jarus is the head of the Occupational Therapy Department at UBC. Together with her wife Avital, they will describe the long and intensive legal battles they endured in order to gain legal status as adoptive parents of one another’s children.

Synopsis of “Yossi and Jagger”:
Romance blooms between two soldiers (Yossi and Jagger) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolate outpost is guarded from attack.

The 2010 Israeli Film Festival is organized by Hillel Montreal and Hillel McGill, and is honored to have the guidance of Prof. Lea Fima, Chaim Maizel Lecturer in Hebrew Studies, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University and an expert in Israeli Cinema.

Project Better Place
at the Gallery
Thursday, April 8
6pm

GREEN PARTY / GREEN BZZR / FREE DRINKS for those who come early!

Celebrate Israeli contributions to environmental sustainability, and find out what Israeli company ‘Better Place’ can do for green change here in BC!

An Israel Week 2010 Event
(http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=113884441955388&ref=ts)

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Project Better Place is the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) services provider, catalyzing the transition to sustainable transportation.

Proejct Better Place will revolutionize transportation as we know it and it is coming to ONTARIO, along with Israel, Denmark, Japan, Australia, California, and Hawaii. Why not British Columbia?

Check out more about Better Place at their website: http://www.betterplace.com/

Guest Speaker: Yaniv Rivlin – Sauvé Scholar from Israel (born during the first Lebanon war and fought in the second)

The 2010 Israeli Film Festival is organized by Hillel Montreal and Hillel McGill, and is honored to have the guidance of Prof. Lea Fima, Chaim Maizel Lecturer in Hebrew Studies, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University and an expert in Israeli Cinema.

ISRAEL/FRANCE/GERMANY, 2009
HEBREW, JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
90 Min
DIRECTOR: SHARON MAYMON, EREZ TADMOR
CAST: DVIR BENEDEK, ITZIK COHEN, SHMULIK COHEN, LEVANA FINKELSTEIN

TORONTO PREMIERE

APRIL 17 – 9:15PM BLOOR CINEMA
APRIL 18 – 8:00PM CINEPLEX ODEON SHEPPARD CENTRE

Herzl joins a fitness club to get into shape, but the process turns out to be sheer torture and the results are disappointing. Losing weight and getting fit is not easy. Finally fed up with the ridicule he faces on a daily basis, Herzl chances upon sumo wrestling as a way to turn his size into self-respect. He manages to convince some friends to join him, and they all learn some important lessons about life itself. Described by Variety as displaying “a finely honed visual sense and superb comic timing,” A Matter of Size contains a little bit of everything — comedy, romance, friendship. In the tradition of The Full Monty, this charming film with winning performances by an excellent cast and a moral about self-image for all of us, big or small, to ponder.

For more information visit the TJFF website

Sunday, April 18th
5:30-7:30 PM
Beth Israel Synagogue (116 Centre St. – beside the Hillel House)

There will be dinner, games, prizes, and more…

Cost is minimial

Try and RSVP to Rotem Goldshmid at rotemgo@yahoo.com to help them plan food