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    The Future of Jerusalem: Religiosity, Demography and Sovereignty

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    The Future of Jerusalem: Religiosity, Demography and Sovereignty

    Event Announcement

    American Freedom Alliance
    presents

    The February installment of the Lecture and Conference Series 
    The Future of Jerusalem:
    Religiosity, Demography and Sovereignty
    featuring

    Uzi Wexler and Dr. Alon Dumanis
    Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 7:30 pm
    Location: Home of Judi Odette, 256 So. Oakhurst Dr. Beverly Hills
    (between Wilshire and Olympic Blvds. Cross street Whittier)Admission: $15.00

    Parking: Street  (please pick up a parking permit before entering the premises. Permits will be available at the front door)

    About the Topic:
    Israel is a complicated country; Jerusalem, its capital, is not only complex, it is also diverse.  Along with its communities of secular, modern  Orthodox and  ultra-religious Jews and an often hostile Arab community –  the city is challenged on many other  levels.

    Nearly 41 years after reunification, Jerusalem remains a city riven with deep economic uncertainty.  The poverty rate is higher than for almost any other part of Israel: The Jerusalem Institute for Israeli Studies has found that 23.5% of Jews and 72.5% of non-Jews live in poverty in Jerusalem proper.

    Among the most decisive factors contributing to poverty in Jerusalem is the migration of the two highest wage earning groups – secular Jews and modern orthodox Jews – from the city to surrounding areas.

    Both of the presenting speakers are passionate advocates for Jerusalem as a high tech center and as a source of continuing development.  They will discuss the ways in which the city can be saved from becoming either an economic backwater or else a political football between competing political, ideological and religious interests.

    About the Speakers:Mr. Uziel Wexler
    Uziel (Uzi) Wexler was born in Jerusalem in 1938 and is a lifelong resident of the city. His military service in Israel included serving in a special patrol unit in Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, 1967. Most of his years have been spent in public service, fulfilling roles in many different fields while working side-by-side with Jerusalem’s former Mayor Teddy Kollek, including as Director of Finance of Jerusalem’s Municipality, Founder and Director of the Jerusalem Development Authority and Director of the Israel Land Administration. For over four decades, Mr. Wexler has been closely involved in the vision, initiation and completion of many of Jerusalem’s well-known landmarks, such as the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, the Malcha Mall, Teddy Stadium, the Har Hotzvim industrial area, the Tower of David Museum, Begin Boulevard, City Hall, Malha Technology Park and a few residential neighborhoods. He is the Founder of the Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem and Founder of the Jerusalem Development Authority.

    Dr. Alon Dumanis
    Dr. Alon Dumanis has served as a director of Nova since 2002. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Crecor B.V, Docor International B.V, Docor Levi Lassen I BV, Docor Levi Lassen II BV and Docor International Management Ltd., all Dutch investment companies, subsidiaries of The Van-Leer Group Foundation. Dr. Dumanis is currently a chairman of Aposense (TASE-APOS), sight System, Softlib, Bondex, Clariton, DNR Imaging, and a member of the board of directors of Collplant (TASE-CLPT), and other Hi Tech companies in Docor’s investment portfolio. He currently serves as chairman and member of several national steering committees and is the author of many papers published in a number of subject areas, including technology and management. . He is a Brigadier General in the Israeli Airforce. Dr. Dumanis holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University.

    For reservations call the American Freedom Alliance office at 310-444-3085

    For further information call the AFA office at 310-444-3085 or go to www.americanfreedomalliance.org
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    American Freedom Alliance 
    presents

    the February Literary Cafe

    What to Expect When No One’s Expecting

    by Jonathan V. Last
    Author Appearance
    Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 7:30 pm
    Location:  Beverly Hills Public Library, 444 N Rexford Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
    Admission:  $15.00
    Parking: Three hours free at the Beverly Hills Public Library
    For reservations call the American Freedom Alliance office at 310-444-3085

    About the Book:

    For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.
    But the “population bomb” never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies. Population growth has been slowing for two generations. The world’s population will peak, and then begin shrinking, within the next fifty years. In some countries, it’s already started. Japan, for instance, will be half its current size by the end of the century. In Italy, there are already more deaths than births every year. China’s One-Child Policy has left that country without enough women to marry its men, not enough young people to support the country’s elderly, and an impending population contraction that has the ruling class terrified.
    And all of this is coming to America. Middle-class Americans have their own, informal one-child policy these days. And an alarming number of upscale professionals don’t even go that far—they have dogs, not kids. In fact, if it weren’t for the wave of immigration we experienced over the last thirty years, the United States would be on the verge of shrinking, too.
    What this means for the future of the United States and the world is the focus of this important ground breaking work.

     

    About the Author: 

    Jonathan V. Last
    Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard, a Washington-based political magazine. His writings have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Post, the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, The Week, Salon, Slate, TV Guide, and elsewhere. He is a regular commentator on both television and radio and has appeared on ABC, CNN, Fox News Channel, PBS, NPR, CNBC, Sky News, and the BBC. He blogs at JonathanLast.com and tweets, reluctantly, @JVLast.

     For reservations call the American Freedom Alliance office at 310-444-3085

    For further information call the AFA office at 310-444-3085 or go to www.americanfreedomalliance.org
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    American Freedom Alliance
    is pleased to invite its donors and supporters to a
    Private Dinner
    with
    Jonathan V. Last

    (author What To Expect When No One is Expecting)
    Wednesday, February 12, 2014 
    at 6:00 pm 
    Location:    Home of Dr. Robert and Leslie Hamilton
    Address:    210 25th Street, Santa Monica ( cnr. 25th Street and San Vicente Blvd)
    Donation:   $100.00
    Dress:        Business Casual
    Parking:     Street
    AFA offers its donors and supporters an opportunity to enjoy an intimate, private dinner with author Jonathan V. Last, author of What to Expect When No One’s Expecting. Those who attend this event will be granted free admission to the Literary Cafe on Tuesday, February 11.
    The American Freedom Alliance is now fiscally sponsored under the umbrella of the Edward Charles Foundation, a non-profit organization established according to the IRS Code Section 501(c) 3. EIN: 26-4245043.  All donations to AFA are therefore tax deductible and checks should be made out to the American Freedom Alliance. Please do not hesitate to call us if you have any questions about donations or the fiscal sponsorship.
    About Our Guest:
    Jonathan V. Last
    Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard, a Washington-based political magazine. His writings have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Post, the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, The Week, Salon, Slate, TV Guide, and elsewhere. He is a regular commentator on both television and radio and has appeared on ABC, CNN, Fox News Channel, PBS, NPR, CNBC, Sky News, and the BBC. He blogs at JonathanLast.com and tweets, reluctantly, @JVLast.
    For further information call the AFA office at 310-444-3085 or go to www.americanfreedomalliance.org

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