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

David Broza Live at LPR June 14th!

Isramerica had the enormous pleasure of sitting down with David Broza for a one on one interview at his home here in New York. David will playing at Live at Le Poisson Rouge on Bleeker Street this Monday night at 7pm. Get your tuchess over there!


David Broza Live at Le Poison Rouge, Monday June 14 at 7PM featuring GE Smith.
158 Bleeker

Enjoy the Clip and Come to the show!

Better than Ever!

Since its’ inception in July of 2009, ISRAMERICA has managed to produce sold out runs of Off-Broadway shows such as Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit at The 13th Street Repertory, Sabra by Julia Rosenfeld at Manhattan Theatre Source, has co-sponsored events such as ‘Date My Jewish Friend Play Fundraiser’ at Stand Up NY (conceived by Michelle Slonim and featured in the Wall Street Journal) was one of the supporters of the independent film ‘Reverie’, featured in the Short Corner of The Cannes Film Festival and came on board for an all-nighter at Tikkun Shavuot, one of the biggest uptown celebrations of Jewish and Israeli art in New York and the Holiday of Shavuot.



This time around, ISRAMERICA is mixing it up with the help of Hasidic Hip Hop artist Describe, comedic actor and rapper Derek Brantley (Sammy Davis Jr. III aka SD3) performing his famous song ‘1Potatoe, 2potatoe, 3potatoe, Knish’ as well as Beat boxer Jay stone (last seen on America Idol) who will be beat boxing to ‘Shma Israel’ followed by his own rendition of the Beatles ‘Come Togther’. The show, that will start at 8pm, will also feature the likings of: Michelle Slonim, Rosie Moss, Sarah Doe Osborne, Elian Zach, Noah Aaronson, Shira Kobren, Rony Stav, Netanel Ballaishe, Yael Gonen, Judah Gavra, Hananel Edri, Harrison Greenbaum, Sivan Hadari, Natalie Tenenbaum and a hot scene from 'Sex and The Holy Land', straight out of the NY Fringe Festival Hit from Melanie Zoey Weinstein. The event will be hosted by Ophira Eisenberg.



Isramerica at City Winery will take place on Sunday, June 20th at 8pm at the City Winery, located at 155 Varick St. and Vandam, New York, N.Y. Tickets are $25 online or $30 at the door and can be purchased at http://www.citywinery.com/events/86435. Proceeds go to the Gilad Shalit organization and to the development of our new musical production.

ISRAMERICA WEBSITE HACKED

Dear Friends,

The Isramerica website has been hacked by Islamic fundamentalists. We are shocked and appalled by this awful hate regardless of the fact that we are an A-political group who deals with beautiful creative artistic expression that has no religious or political undertones. Our website has been erased and is currently down. We are working on restoring the files. We continue to create art is Israeli & Jewish American based, inspiring, relevant and free of all controversy and hate. Because of this, we will not re-post the awful, awful pictures and images that were illegally put up on our website here on our blog.

We are holding one of our main event at City Winery on June 20th. Please come out and support.
You can find more info here: http://www.citywinery.com/events/86435

Isramerica and The Jewish Week

Aaron Herman of the Jewish Week came to check out Isramerica at City Winery.

Take a look at this wonderful interview.

KINKY YEDIYOT!

Take a look at Crazy KinkyPurim in Yediyot Achronot America!

CRAZY KINKY PURIM!

Isramerica is coming together with our friends at Kinky Jews, Artists 4 Israel and the producers of Sex and the Holy Land for one Amazing CRAZY KINKY PURIM EXTRAVAGANZA!!!

Highlights of this full out burlesque style variety show, include crazy, kinky acts such as Minnie Tonka(of the Shlep Sisters) and Ginger; both burlesque dancers, hilarious sketches with Jewish role playing, raunchy stand up comedy, fire dancing, human beat-boxing and the 'Yoga Yenta'; an 85 year old contortionist that bends herself into a human pretzel while exclaiming: "Givalt" and "Mazal Tov". Early birds will be treated to a traditional Megillah reading at 6:00pm with an open wine bar.

After the show, guests will be invited to come up to the main floor and dance the night away in a blowout party hosted by top New York & Israeli DJ's spinning some of the hottest tracks currently played at clubs throughout NYC and Tel- Aviv.

Kinky Jews, founded by Naomi Dove in 2005 is a rapidly growing, New York City based community that brings together thousands of Jews who identify with both Judaism and alternative forms of self expression. Naomi has come together with Sivan Hadari, Melanie Weinstein and Craig Dershowitz to create CrazyKinkyPurim. Hadari is the Artistic Director of Isramerica, a company of established and emerging Israeli and Jewish American artists living in New York. Weinstein served as writer and producer of the off- Broadway hit Sex and the Holy Land and Dershowitz is the founder and president of Artists 4 Israel, a community of creative individuals working together in an on-going collaborative project in order to express Israel right to exist in peace and security.

CRAZY KINKY PURIM will take place at 8pm on Sunday, February 28th at The Delancey, located at 168 Delancey Street, New York, N.Y. Tickets are $15 online or $20 at the door and can be purchased https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/96356.

ISRAMERICA DOES IT AGAIN

Yay! Isramerica at City Winery was a HIT! And now some beautiful pictures courtesy of the lovely and talented Seth Wolfson of Artists4Israel followed by thank you's.

Cute Dress, Sivan Hadari

It's a baby, Harrison Greenbaum

Whaat? I'm just sayin, Ali Bernstein

Don't bite the Big Apple Tree, Asia Mei

Ophira Eisenberg

Ari Jacobson

One more Ari..Teman

Shira Kobren and Noah Aronson

Mayonaise, Dina Plotch

Jeff Jacobs/ Jeniffer Lopez

Judah Gavra, Shir la Maalot

Mamita, Vanessa Hidary

Sharon Ben Tovim & Nimo Kally

Ya single? Michelle Slonim & Noam Harary

2 years now, Stav Meishar & Ari Jacobson

Now that Dress is the bomb

Isramerica at City Winery

Yes, It's happening again and it's going to be a super amazing show. This time around, Isramerica at City Winery will showcase a slew of outrageously hilarious stand- up comedians and the finest acoustic musical acts. Almost all the material is original and will make you laugh till you're blue in the face or just feel downright good!
We couldn't have asked for a better venue; City Winery is filled with light and great energies (to those of you who are into energies, like myself) as well as a variety of wines, including kosher ones!
And what a line up: Ophira Eisenberg, Vanessa Hidary- "The Hebrew Mamita", Harrison Greenbaum, Michelle Slonim, Ali Bernstein, Jeff Jacobs, Asia Mei, Noah Aaronson, Shira Kobren, Ariel Jacobson, Jeff Jacobs, Stav Meishar, Sharon Ben -Tovim, Nimo Kally, Ari Teman, Natalie Tenenbaum, Noam Harary, Dina Plotch, Judah Gavra and myself.

No one will give you so much entertainment for $15.. well almost no one.

Part of the proceeds from Isramerica at City Winery will go to the Gilad Shalit Organization in NYC.

Come on out so you don't have to complain about missing it later.

YOU'REALLSKINNBONES

Probably what you Jewish mother would say if she was here right now, regardless of your actual weight or the fact that the last time you ate was that subway footlong 15 minutes ago.

And as a tribute to Jewish and unJewish mothers everywhere we are thrilled to invite you to the next AMAZING show of ISRAMERICA!!!

Hosted at City Winery, January 31st, 2010 at 8pm

Integrating the works of a group of fiercely talented young artists, brings you an all star line-up of Israeli and Jewish-American performers, many of which have been featured on Broadway and off, various TV shows on Comedy Central, MTV and HBO as well as premiere music and comedy venues all over New York. This promises to be an outstanding night of music and comedy that will have you ‘shvitizing’ in your seat with laughter!

On January 31st at 8pm, NYC will get to sample a wide and entertaining variety of the current crop of Israeli talent. ISRAMERICA, a one night only special live event, presented by Playline Productions, will feature over fifteen artists, including musicians, stand-up comedians, actors and dancers at their best.

Featuring the comedic stylings of Ophira Eisenberg (Comedy Central's Premium Blend, VH-1's Oxygen), Vanessa Hidary- "The Hebrew Mamita" (Def Poetry on HBO, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad) , Harrison Greenbaum (Spike TV, Stand Up NY) , Michelle Slonim ( Sex and the Holy Land, Jewtopia), Ari Teman ( Comix, The White House) and the music of Asia Mei, (who recently performed with Andrea Bocelli at Carnegie Hall), Noah Aaronson , Shira Kobren, Jeff Jacobs, Stav Meishar and more.

Created and Directed by Sivan Hadari and co-produced by Sharon Ben Tovinm & Jamie Rosler.

Come see the show and eat something... look at you.