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17 February 2017
In honor of H.E. Serge Berdugo, Ambassador at Large of H.M. the King of Morocco Mohammed VI and Secrétaire Général du Conseil des Communautés Israélites du Maroc |
In honor of H.E. Serge Berdugo, Ambassador at Large of H.M. the King of Morocco Mohammed VI and Secrétaire Général du Conseil des Communautés Israélites du Maroc
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“The Last Word: Stars over the Desert” By Jeremy Jones, The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council
An Australian Jewish activist details the three groups struggling against anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli prejudices within Moroccan society, there are “those who are motivated by a desire to improve and increase Muslim-Jewish understanding… the inspiring, dynamic group of young Moroccan Muslims who are determined to help their nation understand, honour and properly relate to the Jewish part of its past… [and] the third group, the smallest… political activists whose focus is on improving Moroccan-Israeli relations.”
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 ElMehdi Boudra of ASF’s Partner, the Moroccan NGO Association Mimouna, speaking at the joint ASF-Mimouna Moroccan Jewish Caravan, Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue/Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, NY, 22 October 2014 (Photo courtesy of PAYAM Studio) |
By Jeremy Jones, The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council
ElMehdi Boudra of ASF’s Partner, the Moroccan NGO Association Mimouna, speaking at the joint ASF-Mimouna Moroccan Jewish Caravan, Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue/Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, NY, 22 October 2014 (Photo courtesy of PAYAM Studio)
Yasmin Levy, a Sephardi-Israeli singer descended from Izmiri Jews
(Photo courtesy of Top Shelf Productions)
Watch as Yasmin Levy, the celebrated Israeli singer of Ladino music, performs in Spain and shares the experience with her mother, Kohava, a wonderful Ladino singer who, because of love, gave up on a career as a vocalist. But “never say never,” and Kohava recently released an album of Ladino songs, produced by Yasmin.
 Restored Rambam (Maimonides) Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt, 2014 |
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“Egypt’s Jewish Community is Vanishing, but Jewish History in Cairo is Revived” By Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post
Six elderly women constitute the Jewish community of Egypt, the youngest being sixty-five. But while the Jewish community is disappearing, Jewish history in Egypt is enjoying a revival. According to Yitzhak Sokoloff, an Israeli scholar who organizes trips to Egypt, “To see Muslim kids coming on a school trip and learning about Maimonides as part of their tradition and heritage, it is something they could have blotted out, but it is something they embrace, the whole experience of Jewish life in Cairo.”
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Restored Rambam (Maimonides) Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt, 2014
(Photo courtesy of Gamal/Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life)
By Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post
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)
Now 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.
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Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom
Through January 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
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Thank you for opting (on our websites, at an event, or by email) to receive American Sephardi Federation Programming Updates and Publications. We apologize if this message was sent in error.
The American Sephardi Federation is located at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York, New York, 10011).
www.AmericanSephardi.org | info@AmericanSephardi.org | (212) 548-4486
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