We had poignant and personal evening at the perfect environment of Cozy Cafe, with Jewish Israeli filmmaker Danae Elon who screened a portion of her critically-acclaimed film Another Road Home about her search to reunite with her Muslim male Palestinian caregiver after almost 15 years. Her story and life experience really put a human face on that struggle in general for everyone who attended. The event can best be summed up in these comments:

"Danae was a terrific guest speaker -- such a personal take on so many intertwined universal, controversial issues. "

"Danae was great. I really enjoyed the opportunity to hear/experience a different perspective on Israeli/Palestinian relations. It's a better way to show the real conflict and the pain it causes from a personal level, beyond the political, economic, academic arguments, etc."

"I don't know very much about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict except for sensational news reports - this was my first experience hearing a very intimate view of what the cultural experience of life in Israel is like ...[It was a] very moving portrayal of building relationships between people of very different backgrounds - which is what The Women's Mosaic does, too."

We'll let you know when the movie comes out on DVD so you can watch it yourself!

Come join us for an evening that will highlight the wonderous treasures and culture of Sri Lanka, and provide help for the women affected by the tsunami there.

Sample authentic Sri Lankan cuisine (there are no Sri Lankan restaurants left in Manhattan, so this is a real treat) while listening to a Sri Lankan woman speak about her country and women's issues there in general; a spokesperson for the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society talking about the biodiversity and ecotourism in that country and to Pauline Nguyen, Secretary of Sri Lanka Care Foundation, a nonprofit organization building homes and business for women effected by the tsunami. (Pauline just came back from spending over a month on the ground there!) All this will take place at the funky, jungle-themed Boa restaurant in the East Village, and a portion of the admission cost will be donated to Sri Lanka Care Foundation.

We need your help to make this year's summer fundraiser blow-out our very best and most successful yet! We'll send a separate email on specific ways you can help even if you are not part of the committee, mostly through getting sponsors and donating items for our Silent Auction. Stay tuned for more details on that soon!

In addition to the eNewsletters and announcements you have been receiving, we have a printed annual newsletter called INSPIRER that you can access here to read articles and see photos of some of our past events.

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If you didn't happen to catch it, TWM got some press in the March 11-14 version of NY's Metro paper, when an editorial by TWM's founder Kristina Leonardi was published. View a PDF version of the article by clicking here.

We recently sent out an email about this, but just in case you didn't receive it....

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