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30 September 2016
Hazak u’Barukh to President Bernard Ouziel, Executive Director R’ Nissim Elnecavé, and ASF & Brotherhood Board Member Dr. Joe Halio, as well as the other members of the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, on their 100th Anniversary. Kada anio amejurado! |
Hazak u’Barukh to President Bernard Ouziel, Executive Director R’ Nissim Elnecavé, and ASF & Brotherhood Board Member Dr. Joe Halio, as well as the other members of the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, on their 100th Anniversary. Kada anio amejurado!
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“The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America Celebrates Its Centennial” By Devin E. Naar, Tablet
The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of American began with forty young Jewish men and women from Salonica convening at a café on the Lower East Side in 1915. The organization unified with other Greek and Turkish Jewish organizations in 1947, and today it looks to renew itself and increase the public profile of Greek and Turkish Jewry in America, “like other robust non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities, like Syrians in New York or Persians in Los Angeles.” The organization’s centennial was celebrated last week at the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst, Long Island.
Learn more about the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America by contacting Executive Director R’ Nissim Elnecavé. |
 Sephardic Brotherhood Board of America and ASF Member Dr. Joe Halio and Sephardic Brotherhood President Bernard Ouziel at the Brotherhood’s 100th Anniversary Gala, Sephardic Temple, Cedarhurst, NY, 25 September 2016 |
By Devin E. Naar, Tablet
Learn more about the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America by contacting Executive Director R’ Nissim Elnecavé.
Sephardic Brotherhood Board of America and ASF Member Dr. Joe Halio and Sephardic Brotherhood President Bernard Ouziel at the Brotherhood’s 100th Anniversary Gala, Sephardic Temple, Cedarhurst, NY, 25 September 2016
(Photo courtesy of Andrew Marcus)
 Flowers and candles are laid down where thousands of Jews were gathered to be transported to Nazi death camps, Old Train Station, Thessaloniki, Greece |
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“Untangling the tale of a Jewish WWII orphan in Thessaloniki” By Giota Mirtsioti, Ekathimerini Shortly after Dario Massarano was born in Salonica in 1943 the Nazis occupied the city. Massarano’s parents managed to leave him with some locals before they were deported to Auschwitz, where they were murdered. The baby, now christened Achilleas Mouratidi, was adopted after the war by an uncle and renamed David Barzilay. Tracked down in Montreal, Barzilay was told the story of his early life, which he never knew. His response? “Incredible relief.”
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Flowers and candles are laid down where thousands of Jews were gathered to be transported to Nazi death camps, Old Train Station, Thessaloniki, Greece
(Photo courtesy of Ekathimerini)
By Giota Mirtsioti, Ekathimerini
President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa with Holocaust Survivors and Dignitaries (Photo courtesy of Chrystie Sherman). Click here to watch a video of the visit.
The exhibit honors Mendes, the creative and courageous Portuguese Consul General at Bordeaux during the Holocaust, who saved Salvador Dalí, the authors of Curious George, and thousands of people, many of them Jews, by issuing visas against the orders of the Salazar regime. 50 years ago Mendes was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad VaShem.
In addition to the exhibit, the President viewed rare books from ASF’s collection on Portuguese Jews in the Center’s Lillian Goldman Reading Room, and heard performances by Pedro de Silva (who played an original composition on Portuguese Guitar) and David Serero, the Sephardi baritone opera singer and star of ASF’s theatrical season, who performed the Ladino classic Aido Querida. The President interpreted the song to be a metaphor for the Sephardim who, due to the Inquisition, were forced “to say goodbye to the homeland, but never forg[o]t… it.”
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“Crossing the Bosphorus: A Sephardic Memoir in a 100-Year-Old French Notebook” By Hannah Pressman, The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
As a Jew growing up on Rhodes, Estrella Galante’s first language was Ladino. However, as a pupil and later teacher for the Alliance Israélite Universelle, she became “an ambassador of French culture.” All told, “Estrella’s life and her languages reflect a unique mixture of East and West,” a mixture that embodied the experience of educated Sephardim in the Eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the 20th century.
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 “Sur Les Flots Du Bosphore” sheet music cover art |
By Hannah Pressman, The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
“Sur Les Flots Du Bosphore” sheet music cover art
(Illustration by Leon Pousthomis; Image courtesy of Sephardic Studies Digital Library and Museum at The UW Stroum Center)
Sephardi Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur Services
King David Nursing Home
2266 Cropsey Avenue
Brooklyn, NY., 11214
Join the Payytan R’Avram Amar for Moroccan-style Sephardi services at the former Sephardic Home in Brooklyn. Complimentary full Kiddush meals and housing will be provided.
Please contact: 713-266-6100, ext:305, to confirm
Call for Art: Homelands
Deadline: October 7th
ASF is co-sponsoring Homelands, a proposed exhibit at the next Jerusalem Biennale (October 2017). Multiple artists will “reflect on one of the defining moments of the last century: the disbanding of the Jewish communities of the Muslim world.” Curated by Meira Balas, PhD and Organized by Lenore Mizrahi-Cohen. For additional details and to submit artwork click here.
Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom
April through October
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York City
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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