Café Avra Productions

14/09/2023

*Recent Edit. A recap of international news coverage of United Hatzalah’s current humanitarian rescue mission in Morocco.

14/01/2021

Blog post for United Hatzalah of Israel.
Behind the scenes of Israel’s vaccination program. History in the making. UH Medics Shira Hershkop, Esti Goodman, احمد عسيلة (Ahmad Asila), Moshiko Moskowitz and Shimi Kopolovits took the time to share with me what they are currently experiencing on the ground. Simply amazing and historic 💪💉

  United Hatzalah medics continue to take an active lead in Israel's COVID-19 vaccination efforts. Last Saturday evening, the cover story of BBC World News featured a photograph of United Hatzalah medic Shira Hershkop administering a dose to one of Israel's elderly. The headline was titled, “Isra...

16/12/2018

A truly insightful and informative (English) panel on the current situation of plastic and waste in Israel. This past Thursday, December 13th, organized by the Abraham Hostel Jerusalem and Plastic Free Israel. The amazing panel included Stav Freed from Plastic Free Israel, Shalom Or from Jerusalem Green Fund קרן ירושלים ירוקה and Zero Waste Jerusalem, Inon Dan Kehati from Thehomejlm, Omri Hazor from Surf Film Nights, and organizer/moderator Theresa Graf. Highly recommend watching! To continue this important and relevant discussion, join the Facebook Group: Zero Waste Jerusalem. The panel was filmed and edited by Amy Schwartz Ozeri from Café Avra Productions for Zero Waste Jerusalem.

20/02/2018

Sanaa Mahameed is one of 330 Muslim volunteers of United Hatzalah who save lives daily all over Israel. I hope she inspires you with her enthusiasm and dreams, as much as she inspired me through the making this clip for United Hatzalah of Israel. Thank you Sanaa for sharing your story.

16/01/2018

Since 2015, Café Avra Productions has been working with the Cardozo Lecture Series, filming inspiring and sometimes controversial lectures on a variety of topics in Jewish thought from Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo. Here is a playlist of 6 recent lectures. Prepare to be inspired.

08/12/2017

On October 25, 2017 the Leichtag Foundation let me join their visits to Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jericho through a very special lens. Through the arts. Through gallery tours and museums. Through contemporary art and thinking in these three cities. I was only able to catch a small glimpse of what I saw, but the trip was inspiring and eye-opening at the least. I wish the Leichtag Foundation a lot of success with their future work in this arena, and I hope we can all continue to connect on cultural grounds. Filmed and edited by Café Avra Productions for Modest Jerusalem. Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/fHEWcRaB93I

19/11/2017

It was wonderful to join the team of the 3rd Jerusalem Biennale at the The Knesset - הכנסת (Israeli Parliament) on November 7, 2017 where their recent exhibition “Balfour at 100” was showing to coincide with the Balfour Centennial conference. We made a small clip to highlight the exhibition and to share the Biennale’s perspective on why it was important that British-Jewish artists could give their interpretation of what the Balfour Declaration meant to them. It was a truly special day and conference, with an extraordinary lecture from Professor Simon Schama. The Jerusalem Biennale הביאנלה של ירושלים Ruth Schreiber Beverley-Jane Stewart

10/08/2017

Cafe Avra Productions has recently produced two videos for the Jerusalem African Community Center מרכז לקהילה האפריקאית בירושלים's crowdfunding campaign to raise additional funds for their children's programs. It was wonderful to meet their amazing and dedicated staff, as well as interviewing some brave and kind refugees from Eritrea that live in Jerusalem and raise their families here. Please click the link to see the first video and campaign. Once the second video is up and running we will update you! Hope you are having a wonderful summer.

Time waits for no one, and who knows that better than the children of refugees and asylum seekers. While their parents are in a daily struggle for the basic needs of life, the children grow up with significant gaps in their development.This September we plan to take our children's program in...