10.30am
Sunday 11 January 2009
Professor Livia Biton-Jackson
was born in Czechoslovakia. She emigrated to the US in 1951, attended university
and received her BA, MA and PhD degrees. She has taught at several institutions
of higher learning, among them City University of New York, where she has been
Professor of Judaic Studies for over thirty years.
This lecture is a
continuation of Prof. Jackson's talk about Three Millennia of Jerusalem in
November. Beginning with the British Mandate, 1917, the Balfour Declaration,
through Nov. 1947, the UN Resolution to Partition Palestine, which called for
the internationalization of Jerusalem as a "corpus separatum" and the War of
Independence, 1948, the Six Day War, 1967, which in Jerusalem was only a
AMD –
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
10.30am Sunday 18 January 2009
Dr. Gideon Naor, Chairman of NAMAG, developed reading blindness from AMD, the
most common cause of legal blindness in the Western World for those over the age
of
65. He will tell us about his experiences and about NAMAG, the volunteer
organization
which provides a Hot Line for physicians and patients, established support
groups,
helps locate visual aids, and lobbies for inclusion of the newest and best
treatments for
this condition in the basket of benefits from the health funds. After his talk
there will be
time for questions, fielded by Dr. Edward Fineberg who has been an
ophthalmologist for
the last 40 years, working as a retinal specialist.
Election
Evening
8.00pm Sunday 18 January 2009
Beit Oleh America Netanya AACI is proud to host an election evening in
conjunction with
the Jerusalem Post at our Moadon on 28 Shmuel Hanaziv prior to the National
Elections
on Tuesday 10 February. This will be an opportunity to hear party
representatives present themselves in English. Full details to follow in the
Jerusalem Post and on our web site.www.netanyaaaci.org.il
