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31 March 2017
In memory of Moses Elias Levy, A”H, the Essouira-Mogador, Moroccan-born Sephardi Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Abolitionist. Levy authored “A plan for the Abolition of Slavery” (1828), founded Pilgrimage Plantation in Florida as a refuge for persecuted European Jews, and was the father of David Yulee Levy, the first Jew elected to serve in Congress and later the Senate. |
In memory of Moses Elias Levy, A”H, the Essouira-Mogador, Moroccan-born Sephardi Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Abolitionist. Levy authored “A plan for the Abolition of Slavery” (1828), founded Pilgrimage Plantation in Florida as a refuge for persecuted European Jews, and was the father of David Yulee Levy, the first Jew elected to serve in Congress and later the Senate.
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“Moroccan Cultural Preservation and the Jewish Experience” By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, The Upper Nile Times
Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, President of the High Atlas Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advances human development in Morocco, details how Morocco’s work in cultural preservation is, “an embodiment of Morocco’s integrated development approach… preserving Moroccan cultural institutions, locations, and artifacts, also intends at the same time to enhance the lives of people in measurable ways, such as in education, income, and health.” Ben-Meir notes in particular how King Mohammed VI has been advancing a vision in which “culture serves as a driving force for development as well as a bridge for dialogue.” One example is a national project, “launched in 2012 to rehabilitate the Jewish cemeteries.”
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 Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir speaking at Slat Lazama Synagogue on 19 March 2017 inuagrating the opening of Association Mimouna’s Interactive Pavilion, which features Diarna Geo-Museum displays. Dr. Ben-Meir was a guest at Opening Night of the 20th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. |
By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, The Upper Nile Times
Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir speaking at Slat Lazama Synagogue on 19 March 2017 inuagrating the opening of Association Mimouna’s Interactive Pavilion, which features Diarna Geo-Museum displays. Dr. Ben-Meir was a guest at Opening Night of the 20th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
(Photo courtesy of Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir/The Upper Nile Times)
The first song heard in the interview is by Yugoslavian-Sephardi legend Flory Jagoda
(Photo courtesy of Alchetron)
A Sephardi chorus in Los Angeles is striving to preserve the Ladino that was spoken, and sung, by Jewish refugees from the island of Rhodes, “When I sing in Ladino I just get transported to the past, to my ancestors.”
 ASF Board Member Rabbi Elie Abadie, is featured in the documentary |
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“Lebanon’s Jews are often forgotten, this documentary sheds light on the community” By Nadine Mazloum, stepFeed
15,000 Jews lived in Lebanon in the early 1950’s, but today less than one hundred remain. Rola Khayyat is a Lebanese filmmaker living in New York City who grew up hearing her father’s stories about Jewish friends from his past, and she recently finished a documentary, “From Brooklyn to Beirut,” that treats the Lebanese-Jewish diaspora of Brooklyn, “After moving to New York… I discovered that one of the largest diasporic communities of Lebanese/Syrian Jews was actually in the city… I was very eager, curious and interested to meet and get to know them… a people who were no longer present in our everyday understanding of Lebanon.”
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ASF Board Member Rabbi Elie Abadie, is featured in the documentary
(Photo courtesy of stepFeed)
By Nadine Mazloum, stepFeed
New York Sephardic Film Festival
March 30 – April 6, 2017
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation presents the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival’s 20th Anniversary Edition.
Through the poignant medium of film, the NYSJFF provides viewers with an understanding of the rich mosaic culture of Jews from the Middle East and greater Sephardic Diaspora. Select nights are dedicated to the Moroccan, Iraqi, Greek, and Yemenite Jewish communities.
Festival Pass excluding Opening Night = $50
Young Professionals Night= $25
Individual Film = $10
Click here or call 1.800.838.3006 for Program Listings, Film Descriptions, and Pass & Ticket Options
Click here or call 917.606.8266 for Sponsorship & Advertising Opportunities
Special Announcement
Sephardic Birthright Trip Summer 2017
Sephardic Communities in New York, Miami, and Seattle, are joining together to create a Sephardic Birthright Israel Trip this Summer from August 7th to August 17th! If you’ve never been on Birthright before and want to go to Israel for free, this is your chance! For 10 days, you’ll be able to travel around the country with amazing people with Sephardic, Greek, and Turkish backgrounds, all while exploring everything Israel has to offer. You’ll be able to ride camels in the desert, raft down the Jordan River, explore the Old City in Jerusalem, and a whole lot more.
The trip is totally free and anyone between the ages of 18 and 26 who hasn’t been on a Birthright Israel trip before is eligible. What’s more, we are working on creating an extended portion of the Trip to Greece! Even if you’ve been to Israel before on a non-birthright trip you may still be eligible.
Register HERE today and be sure to select the “Sephardic Experience” Trip. Registration takes less than 10 minutes and no final commitment is necessary. If you have any question, be sure to email us at info@sephardicbrotherhood.com and be sure to check out some of the amazing pictures from last year’s trip and our promo video made by one of our very own trip participants!
Note: While not an ASF program, ASF is proud of the members of our Young Leadership Board who are involved in organizing this trip
When Baghdadi Jews Baruch and Ellen Bekhor (née Cohen) succumbed to the camera’s gaze for their denaturalization pictures in 1951, they became stateless. Ellen was in her eighth month of pregnancy. Permitted to bring no more than a few kilos of belongings out of Iraq, Ellen carried their wedding picture and ketubah in her pocketbook. Laissez-Passer, Royaume D’Irak by Leslie Starobin (2016)
Through April 2017
in ASF’s Myron Habib Memorial Display
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation proudly presents excerpts from The Last Address, a multi-year, photo-montage series and oral history and book project by award-winning artist Leslie Starobin that explores the enduring texture of memory and culture in the lives of Greater Sephardic families from dispersed Jewish communities in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Lebanon.
Leslie Starobin is a Boston-area photographer and montage artist. Her work is in the permanent collections of many academic (Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University) and public (Jewish Museum, MoMA) museums. Starobin is the recipient of numerous grants, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation of the Arts/Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Most recently, she received two Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Grants for this series, The Last Address.
Her exhibition in ASF’s Myron Habib Memorial Display is sponsored in part by CELTSS: The Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship and Service at Framingham State University in Massachusetts, where Starobin is a Professor of Communication Arts.
Please click here for additional information and viewing hours
Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom
Through June 2017
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation, Portuguese Consulate of New York, the Sousa Mendes Foundation, and the Municipality of Almeida, Portugal proudly present an exhibition in the Leon Levy Gallery honoring Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the courageous and creative Portuguese diplomat who saved Salvador Dali, the authors of Curious George, and thousands of other Holocaust refugees.
Please click here for additional information and viewing hours
Donate now and your tax-deductible contribution will help ASF preserve and promote the Greater Sephardi history, traditions, and culture as an integral part of the Jewish experience!
Contact us by email or phone ((917) 606-8266) to learn about giving opportunities in honor or memory of loved ones
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