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23 September 2016
In honor of the President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who visited ASF’s multi-partner exhibition, Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom, in the Leon Levy Gallery at The Center for Jewish History on Thursday |
In honor of the President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who visited ASF’s multi-partner exhibition, Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom, in the Leon Levy Gallery at The Center for Jewish History on Thursday
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“Touring Tel Aviv With the Feminist and Fashionable A-WA Sisters” By Patricia Garcia, Vogue Vogue traveled to Tel Aviv-Jaffa to check out the three Israeli sisters known as A-WA, a girls group that sings in Yemenite Arabic. Taken in by their style and sensibility, Vogue’s writer asked the million dollar question: “Who are these three women in high top sneakers and djellabas, and where have they been all of our lives?”
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 A-WA’s Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim, Tel Aviv, Israel |
By Patricia Garcia, Vogue
A-WA’s Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim, Tel Aviv, Israel
(Photo courtesy of Mayan Toledano/Vogue)
 Borekas from the Ladies Auxiliary of Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, Seattle, Washington |
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“The Flavor of Rhodes: Paradise Lost, Recipe Saved” By Ty Alhadeff, The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Born in Rhodes in 1898, Rachel Shemarya moved to NYC in 1921 before eventually making her way to Seattle. While Jewish Rhodes was lost to the Holocaust, “a taste of that world has been preserved in one of Rachel’s handwritten recipes.” The recipe, now preserved in the University of Washington’s Sephardic Studies Digital Library & Museum, “offers a rare look into the lives of Sephardic women whose experiences often escape the written record.”
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Borekas from the Ladies Auxiliary of Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, Seattle, Washington
(Photo courtesy of Sephardic Studies Digital Library & Museum at the University of Washington)
By Ty Alhadeff, The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
An Intimate Rivalry: The Jews and Classical Islam
September 27th at 7:30PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York City
ASF is co-sponsoring the first in a series of programs by the Center for Jewish History and Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell exploring how Jewish-Muslim relations in the pre-modern era are popularly portrayed as a precursor of conflict in the contemporary Middle East. Drawing on religious texts, historical documents, and other materials, however, cultural historian Ross Brann (Cornell University) offers a rich and more complex portrait of early Jewish-Muslim relations, one that is characterized by the creative dynamics of minority-majority interaction. This series is being made possible by the generous support of Bruce Slovin, Chair Emeritus & Founder of the Center for Jewish History and Distinguished Board Member of the American Sephardi Federation.
Please click here to purchase tickets
(General Admission $10; Center for Jewish History /Partner Members $5, Seniors,Students, and Cornell Alumni $5)
Reservations Suggested
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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