SUCCESS!!!!! ISRAMERICA WITH RAMI KLEINSTEIN!!!

On January 12th ISRAMERICA hosted a special night of music, comedy and welcomed the incomparable Israeli pop superstar Rami Kleinstein and the dynamic young ISRAMERICA collective. The show was a sold out success and we had an opportunity to share the stage with a live legend, Rami Kleinstein.

ISRAFEST was A MEGA EVENT filled with Israeli and Jewish-American Music, Fashion and Art and featured The ISRAMERICA House Band (with Judah Gavra, Omer Shaish, Talya Smilowitz, Stav Livne and Natalie Tenenbaum), The Groggers, Rony Corcos, Noah and the Maccabees and a snippet from Sivan Hadari's Award-winning one woman show: The Emancipation of the Sassy Jewish Woman.

The walls at City Winery were adorned with extraordinary visual art, paintings, murals and more all courtesy of the talented pro-Israel artists from Artists 4 Israel. The back walls were draped with an endless array of Ethnic, Pro-Israel fashion items and accessories. But most importantly were the Kick-Tuchess performances on stage by these young, breakout Isramerican artists.


Thank you to everyone who came out and made this event a wonderful success.


The ISRAMERICA TEAM

J-Slam, Shalom TV and much more!

Happy Hanukkah folks!

We hope you're celebrating this holiday of lights with plenty of good food and good friends!
As for us, we are up to A LOT these days...
On December 21st, WEAVE Storytelling Workshop and ISRAMERICA present:

J- SLAM!

Jewish Storytelling at it's BEST.

10 Stories. 6 minutes. One Champion.

YOU CHOOSE THE WINNER!

Tuesday, Dec. 21st, 9;30pm
Standup NY
236 West 78th Sreet
New York, NY
$10 at the door and online

Featuring: Jerry Fishman, Rochelle Lisner, Lois Barth, Michelle Slonim, Hananel Edri, Dina Plotch, Noam Harary, Jay Stone, Carla Sadof and Sivan Hadari

with a special performance by Master Storyteller Sariel Beckenstein, founder of WEAVE Storytelling Workshop.

Tix are $10 at J-SLAM ONLINE!

Mazal tov to Kobi Shanny, Rony Stav and Judah Gavra on a great event last week, World Extravadanza.

The Highline ballroom was filled to the MAX . Over 500 people came out for the DANCE SHOW OF THE YEAR! There were dancers from all over the world, tango, salsa, flamenco, skate dancing, belly dancing and FIRE DANCING. LOS CITRON performed a wonderful tribute to THE GYPSY KINGS and people danced and sang in the audience. Singer Bat Sheva performed and Judah Gavra and Rony Stav hosted the show and did a cover for the song "If I had you" by Adam Lambert.

The show was produced by Kobi Shanny of Kobi Events in collaboration with Isramerica.

It was a very successful night and we had a great time!

Mazal tov to our President and Founder, Sivan Hadari for being the new anchor at Shalom TV and covering the Shemspeed Art Rave and Fashion show at The Sephardic Music Festival!

In this photo: Elke Reva Sudin, Oshri Hadari, Baruch Chertock and Erez Safar of Shemspeed

In other news:

-Ari Jacobson's new album is almost done! Help us kickstart his awesome project!

- Happy Birthday to Isramerica co-founder, Michelle Slonim, and to our in-house model Matan Hadari as well.




HAPPY HANNUKAH TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

ISRAEMRICA

WORLD EXTRAVADANZA, VODKAS AND LATKES and more!

Check out WORLD EXTRAVADANZA TOMORROW Saturday Nov 27th at Highline Ballroom- DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!!!!!!!


Time Out NY included the event in their article of this week's PERFECT WEEKEND, so don't miss out, it's gonna be outta this world!




Also, don't miss out on Beit Issie Shapiro's Annual Chanukah Party of VODAKS AND LATKES!

Cause if there's anything better than latkes for the holidays, it's latkes and alcohol for the holidays!

Come Celebrate Chanukah and support American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro- Building a better future for children with special needs in Israel.
General Admission Ticket including a complimentary drink:
$25 advance, $40 door


And Happy Birthday to Jesse Reing, a dear friend and supporter of Isramerica. We heart you!

And keep an eye out for our Jewish Story-telling upcoming event: J-Slam! at StandUp NY Dec 21st! It's gonna be mega fun!


See you tomorrow for some belly shakin'!

MAZAL TOV ALL AROUND!

So many wonderful accomplishments this week and we are so proud of all of our Isramericans!

First off, a Big Mazal Tov to the cast of A DAUGHTER OF ISRAEL for a brilliant run of an excellent show. It has been a true pleasure watching these actresses grow into their roles and take us on an amazing journey. Congratulations: Adi Kurtchick, Shira Kobren, Melissa Dougherty, Melanie Brook and Daniella Chai.

Mazal Tov to our President and Founder, Sivan Hadari for the award BEST SOLO DEBUT for her show The Emancipation of the Sassy Jewish Woman at The United Solo Festival!!! Incredible!

Mazal Tov to our first ever director and ISRAMERICA co-founder; Michelle Slonim on the raved-about performance of her soon to take over the world play; 'Michelle Slonim's Date Party' at The Jewish Theatre Festival in Chicago. You rock Michelle!

Mazal, Mazal, Mazal to our dear friend and ISRAMERICA supporter Leila Wolford on her guest appearance on the Kendra show on E! last Sunday night! We loved the classy snooki hair comment!

Mazal to Oshri Hadari on her debut in the OFF THE HOOK Y-Love featured, 'This is Unity' Music Video encouraging acceptance of Jewish Diversity. Keep an eye out!

Mazal Tov to our dear friend and collaborator Melanie Zoey Weinstein for kicking tuchess at The Get a Clue Festival this week!

Mazal to Aviv Hadari and the band MAGOR on a SOLD OUT Mega concert in Tel-Aviv at The Pestisheretz Festival for Heavy Metal!

Mazal to our dear friend Sariel Beckenstein on a successful and fruitful WEAVE Storytelling Workshop!

Happy 30th Dina Plotch! Have you ever been any hotter????

Look out, Look out! Ariel Jacobson is dropping his solo Album very soon and we ask you to support on his KICKSTARTER PAGE!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/155113595/ari-jacobson-songs-about-you-an-album-of-original

WE ARE AWAITING THE ARRIVAL: of Omer Shaish!

Mazal Tov of your long run of 'Spring Awakening' in Israel and
NYC is holding it's breath till you land safely!

DON'T MISS THESE SHOWS!!!!!

Check out WORLD EXTRAVADANZA this Saturday Nov 27th at Highline Ballroom- DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!!!!!!!


and SAVE THE DATE for the ISRAMERICA SHOW at City Winery January 12th!!!!!




Congratulations to ALL!!

First and foremost - a big KOL HAKAVOD to our President and Founder Sivan Hadari for her successful one woman show "The Emancipation of the Sassy Jewish Woman". The show played last week Off-Broadway at The United Solo Festival at Theatre Row to a sold out house and was a big success, thumbs up!

"A DAUGHTER OF ISRAEL" FINAL PERFORMANCES!!!

This weekend are the final performances of this workshop production, so don't miss out on this tour-de-force show playing at Looking Glass Theatre!

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE: http://thelookingglasstheatre.homestead.com/

WORLD EXTRAVADANZA AT THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM!

Saturday November 27th at 7PM-11PM

Kobi Events in collaboration with ISRAMERICA present a Red Carpet event featuring sultry Latin dancing, Tango, Skirt Dancing, Skating, Belly dancing and more!

Also featuring a special tribute to The Gypsy Kings featuring Los Cintron, Middle Eastern Darbuka drumming and a special performance by internationally acclaimed Israeli-American singer Bat- Sheva also known as Miss Bodega.
Hosted by Judah Gavra and Rony Stav, of Isramerica, who will grace the stage with their exceptional vocal abilities and style.

HA HA HANUKAH AT STANDUP NY!! DECEMBER 1ST!

Kinky Jews invites you to have a cocktail, share a laugh and celebrate Hanukkah with some unique new traditions!

✡ The customary game of Strip Driedel
✡ Lighting the Traditional Human Menorah
✡ Plus the Eight Raffle Prizes of Hanukkah!

Followed by an exclusive line up of comedic performers lighting up the night with laughter; featuring the omedy stylings of Sivan Hadari and Michelle Slonim
and many stellar comedians.

Date: Wednesday, December 1st
Time: 6:30pm - 8:45pm
Location: Stand Up NY: 236 West 78th Street
More info at http://hahahanukkah.eventbrite.com/


P.S. A big Mazal Tov to Leanne Agmon on the show "American Dreamings: To the New York Island"!!!

AND....... after a long wait, we are happy to say:

Welcome back to NYC Hananel Edri and Ariel Jacobson!

We missed you and we are happy you are back to rock this city with us!!!

Emancipation of the Sassy Jewish Woman TOMORROW

Don't miss out on Sivan's sexy one-womam show, TOMORROW at theater row!

Watch the teaser for the show or read the preview article for it, and be there for a night of knishes and laughs!

Reminder:

Emancipation of the Sassy Jewish Woman

Tomorrow only - Thursday November 11th at 10pm

At Theater Row Studios on 410 West 42nd street, corner of 9th avenue

Buy your tickets here.

Isramerica Alumni update:

- Netanel Bellaishe is dancing all over the USA with the National Tour of "Chorus Line"

- Judah Gavra just finished a run of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"

- Yael Gonen is working on a Christmas show

Way to go, Isramericans!

"A Daughter of Israel", Sassy one woman show and more!

Isramerica-awesomeness is always in the works, and we have some amazing events coming to you this fall!

Isramerica is an associate producer of the new play "A Daughter of Israel", coming to you for a limited two weeks engagement.

Engulfed within the backdrop of the never ending controversy that affects the Middle East, four young girls are forced to become instant women when drafted into a special elite unit that of the Israeli Defense Forces. Set in a top secret training camp in Israel, surrounded by only male soldiers, the girls must find a way to overcome their differences and take on the massive responsibility. Can these teenage girls find their own voices as soldiers or will they give up and put the future of the entire unit at risk? A Daughter of Israel is based on the true stories of co-creator Adi Kurtchik.

Shows run November 11 - November 21, 2010, Thursday through Sunday evenings at 8:00 pm at the Looking Glass Theatre located at 422 West 57th Street (between 9th and 10th avenue).

TICKETS ON SALE HERE.

Love Sassy Jewish women who know what they want and are going for it? Then you wanna check out Sivan Hadari's solo show "The Emancipation of the Sassy Jewish Woman".

The performance is based on Hadari's experiences as a modern day gypsy, traveling through America, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, India, China and Thailand in search of a home. The audience is taken on a journey back to the time when Hadari's family were Jewish immigrants fleeing Tunisia, to a little girl praying at a Yeshiva in Brooklyn, to a caravan in a settlement over-looking Jericho, to a nude beach at the Dead Sea to jewel encrusted elephant rides in India, all in the name of liberation.

THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SASSY JEWISH WOMAN will take place at 10pm on Wednesday, November 11th at The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row, located at 410 West 42nd Street New York, N.Y. Tickets are $18 online and can be purchased at the door or online.

Blasts from the Past:


- The fundraising party for "A Daughter of Israel" was a blast. Seeing everyone dancing along to Rony Corcos's music was a delight, now come see the show!


- Two of our Isramericans, Rony Stav and Natalie Tenenbaum, performed at the Symphonic Live at the Bowery Poetry Club last week and did a marvelous job. KOL HAKAVOD!










Looking forward to seeing you in our upcoming events!
ISRAMERICA