Movers and shakers in Israeli society
Australia shouldn’t be denying entry visas to all Israeli officers or ex officio.
Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Israel’s particular envoy for combating antisemitism, is because of arrive in Australia this week for a Q&A session on international antisemitism. She is going to talk about Israel’s technique on tips on how to fight antisemitism and can concentrate on how Jewish communities across the globe can work collectively to get rid of this scourge.
It helps that Cotler-Wunsh is an excellent orator who’s well-known all through a lot of the Jewish world and past, and occurs to be the daughter of internationally acclaimed fighter for human rights and former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler. She, too, is a political creature and is a former member of Knesset.
Her go to to Sydney is below the auspices of the Zionist Council of New South Wales.
Hadassah to honor influential ambassadors in Jerusalem
■ IF YOU say the identify Barbara Goldstein or Barbara Sofer in Hadassah circles, be it in Israel or the US, there might be no want to elucidate who they’re. Barbara Goldstein, who has been a lot part of Hadassah since her youth, missed her personal engagement celebration to the late Cantor Morty Goldstein as a result of she was busy at a Hadassah occasion.
Barbara Goldstein and MK Oren Hazan (credit score: HADASSAH)
Morty didn’t thoughts being a Hadassah husband and was supportive all through their marriage. Barbara Goldstein has lengthy been Hadassah Israel’s ambassador at giant, and, earlier than that, represented Hadassah, the Girls’s Zionist Group of America, within the govt our bodies of varied Zionist organizations and accompanied Hadassah missions in Israel, Poland and elsewhere.
Barbara Sofer, who’s well-known to Jerusalem Put up readers via her column within the paper’s Friday Journal, has for a few years served as director of public relations for HWZOA. In that capability, she has made movies, written articles and spoken at quite a few occasions in Israel and throughout the US.
In travels together with her husband, Gerald Schroeder, an internationally famend physicist, trainer, lecturer and writer, she at all times manages to place in an excellent phrase for Hadassah medical facilities in Jerusalem – one in Ein Kerem and the opposite on Mount Scopus.
Each Barbaras might be honored on Tuesday, September 9, at a gala dinner on the Start Heritage Middle in Jerusalem, the place they are going to be introduced with Hadassah Israel’s highest award – Builder of Jerusalem – in recognition of their extraordinary dedication, management, and contributions to Hadassah Israel and to the Hadassah neighborhood at giant.
Each ladies are ceaselessly described as “inspiring.”
Additionally in line for recognition on the occasion are longtime Hadassah supporters and activists Annabelle Yuval and Miriam Zefania.
Proceeds from the occasion will go to the Gandel Rehabilitation Middle at Mount Scopus to buy further tools for the remedy of wounded troopers and victims of terrorism.
Hebrew-speaking Catholics meet pope in Rome
■ VATICAN NEWS lately revealed an article by Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik and Karol Darmoros a couple of group of Hebrew-speaking Catholics who went from Israel to Rome to obtain a blessing from Pope Leo and to wish for peace.
Whereas a few of its members had beforehand met with Pope John Paul II and varied senior members of the Vatican, this was the primary time they got here collectively as a vicariate to satisfy the pope.
Everybody within the group lives in Israel and speaks Hebrew.
“We’re completely satisfied that we may meet the Holy Father. I instructed him that we’re Hebrew-speaking Catholics, we’ve got seven communities in Israel, and we ask him to not overlook us,” mentioned the group’s chief, Fr. Piotr Zelazko, patriarchal vicar of St. James for Hebrew-speaking Catholics in Israel.
The Holy Father welcomed the pilgrims with a smile and an open coronary heart, he mentioned. “It was the fruits of our pilgrimage. The pope blessed us and spoke with us. It was an extremely transferring encounter.” Abi, one of many pilgrims, mentioned he felt at house in Rome. “We’re 100% Israelis and 100% Catholics, and we pray for peace,” he mentioned. One other pilgrim, Nadav, confused that the roots of the Church are within the Holy Land. “Our patron, St. James, was a Jew and spoke Hebrew. We’re an indication of hope, and we pray for peace within the Holy Land between Israelis and Palestinians,” he affirmed.
The group was photographed proudly standing behind an Israeli flag, which two of its members held from nook to nook, however the flag was absent in photographs with the pope.
Israel faces cultural threats however chess takes the highlight
■ EUROVISION IS nonetheless 9 months away, however sure international locations are already threatening to withdraw if Israel is permitted to compete. Austria, which can subsequent 12 months host the spectacular occasion, and Israel are on comparatively good phrases, however the remaining determination as as to if Israel can keep is with the EBU, which runs Eurovision regardless of the host nation.
Israel is dealing with a variety of cultural threats and boycotts. The Worldwide Harp Contest, which was alleged to happen in Jerusalem in December, was canceled because of low registration and rescinding of participation by artists who had registered for worry of tainting their musical reputations by showing on stage in Israel.
However not everybody has that angle.
Harps could also be out in Jerusalem in December, however chessboards might be in.
The Israel Chess Federation, which is that this 12 months celebrating its ninetieth anniversary, has introduced that a world chess match will happen in Jerusalem from November 30 to December 3, and can characteristic 12 of the highest worldwide chess gamers, together with the reigning world champion, worldwide grandmasters, and members of Israel’s nationwide group. “This occasion is not only a match, however a cultural celebration with a transparent message that Israel is right here,” mentioned ICF CEO Gil Borochovsky. The occasion is co-hosted by ICF, the Tradition and Sport Ministry, and the Jerusalem Municipality.
Tradition and Sport Minister Miki Zohar is a chess fanatic who shares within the pleasure of ICF chairman Dr. Zvika Barkai that international media concentrate on Israel in December might be on conquests of a distinct type.
Chamber music pageant to showcase Strauss and Ravel
■ EVEN THOUGH the Harp Contest has been put in mothballs, the twenty seventh Jerusalem Chamber Music Competition will happen on September 9–13 on the YMCA, throughout the highway from the King David Lodge. The inventive director, Elena Bashkirova, who can also be a first-class pianist and who will play throughout the pageant, is completely satisfied that this 12 months’s program will embrace two vital anniversaries – the 2 hundredth anniversary of the delivery of Johann Strauss and the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the delivery of Maurice Ravel.
Different performing artists embrace baritones Thomas Bauer and Thomas Hampson, string instrumentalists Noga Shaham, Katrin Spiegel, Astrig Siranossian, Christoph Poppin, Nitzan Bartana, Fedor Rudin, Madeleine Carruzzo, Sharon Cohen, Matan Noussimovitch, Kaori Yamagami, Hanan Meltzer, Ivan Karizna, Tatiana Samouil, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Boris Brovtsym, Mark Karlinsky, Band oris Brovtsyn; pianists Yulianna Avdeeva, Alexander Melnikov, Anna Keiserman, and Amit Dolberg; clarinetist Pablo Barragan, horn participant Bar Zemach, flautist Roy Amotz; oboist Nick Deutsch; and bassoonist Mor Biron. Previous to the concert events on September 9, 11, 12 and 13, Gaby Shefler will carry out on the carillon.
The overall program affords nice musical selection – one thing for everybody, from the classics to one thing a bit extra trendy.
Joan Collins nonetheless dazzling at 92
■ VETERAN AWARD-WINNING actress, writer, columnist, and philanthropist Joan Collins will need to have probably the most unimaginable DNA. Collins, 92, who claims that she has by no means undergone beauty surgical procedure apart from a few Botox jabs, remains to be some of the stunning ladies in Hollywood regardless of her superior age. Born in London to a Jewish father and an Anglican mom, she remains to be working, and her subsequent on-screen look might be as Wallis Simpson, the American divorcée for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne.
At present’s royals most likely don’t give it a lot thought, however have been it not for Wallis Simpson, Elizabeth would by no means have ascended the throne to develop into Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, and her son wouldn’t be King Charles III.
On the time of her loss of life in 2022, Elizabeth had been queen for 70 years, surpassing the file of her great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who had reigned for 63 years.
Collins, who’s at present vacationing within the south of France, launched pictures of herself in an attractive white swimsuit and brilliant, strawberry-colored, wide-brimmed hat. She displayed barely an indication of wrinkles, no varicose veins, and legs that might nonetheless appeal to a wolf whistle. Fortunate woman.
