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16 October 2015
In Honor of Seth M. Siegel for his new bestseller, Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World |
In Honor of Seth M. Siegel for his new bestseller, Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World
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“‘It Was Paradise: Jewish Rhodes’. Conversation with Prof. Richard Freund” By Cindy Mindell, Connecticut Jewish Ledger The ancient Jewish community of Rhodes, destroyed by the Nazis, was a microcosm of Sephardic history. According to the distinguished
archaeologist Prof. Richard Freund: “The customs were an amalgam of Spanish, Roman, Babylonian, Judean, and North African… the art of Rhodes combined styles from the Muslims, Templars, Europe, and the Jews of Spain.” The ASF is proud to take part in presenting Prof. Freund’s exhibit, “It Was Paradise: Jewish Rhodes,” scheduled to open on Sunday, Oct. 18, at the University of Hartford’s Museum of Jewish Civilization.
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 Greece’s Oldest Synagogue, Khal Shalom Synagogue, La Juderia (Jewish Quarter), Rhodes (Photo courtesy of Louis Davidson/Synagogues360 — click to explore a panorama of the synagogue
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By Cindy Mindell, Connecticut Jewish Ledger
archaeologist Prof. Richard Freund: “The customs were an amalgam of Spanish, Roman, Babylonian, Judean, and North African… the art of Rhodes combined styles from the Muslims, Templars, Europe, and the Jews of Spain.” The ASF is proud to take part in presenting Prof. Freund’s exhibit, “It Was Paradise: Jewish Rhodes,” scheduled to open on Sunday, Oct. 18, at the University of Hartford’s Museum of Jewish Civilization.
Greece’s Oldest Synagogue, Khal Shalom Synagogue, La Juderia (Jewish Quarter), Rhodes (Photo courtesy of Louis Davidson/Synagogues360 — click to explore a panorama of the synagogue
 A rendering of the new campus, which is slated to open in January 2016 (Photo courtesy of Sir Manasseh Meyer International School) |
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“‘Crown jewel’ of Jewish community to open early next year” By Cheong Suk-Wai, The Straits Times In 1996, Simcha Abergel founded a nursery for young children in Singapore. Today, the nursery is an international Jewish school that sports a new $40 million campus and serves children from ages 18 months to 14 years. Simcha’s husband, Rabbi Mordechai Abergel, considers the campus to be “the crown jewel” of Singapore’s flourishing Jewish community. |
A rendering of the new campus, which is slated to open in January 2016 (Photo courtesy of Sir Manasseh Meyer International School)
By Cheong Suk-Wai, The Straits Times
In 1996, Simcha Abergel founded a nursery for young children in Singapore. Today, the nursery is an international Jewish school that sports a new $40 million campus and serves children from ages 18 months to 14 years. Simcha’s husband, Rabbi Mordechai Abergel, considers the campus to be “the crown jewel” of Singapore’s flourishing Jewish community.
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“Meet the Last Jews of Cairo” By Jared Maslin, Time Seven elderly women, six of them over the age of 80, are all that’s left of Cairo’s Jewish community. 63 year-old Magda Haroun, the community’s “leader,” fears for the future, “Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I’m crying. Because I don’t know what will happen. When the phone rings, I don’t know who died, who is sick. It’s very hard to explain. It’s very heavy. It’s very sad. It’s very frightening.”
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 Locked gate, Ashkenazi Synagouge, Cairo, Egypt, 2014 (Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum)
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By Jared Maslin, Time
Locked gate, Ashkenazi Synagouge, Cairo, Egypt, 2014 (Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum)
18 October at 1PM “It was Paradise: Jewish Rhodes”
at the University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT
and
at 7PM Ladinofest
Emanuel Synagogue
160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT)
The American Sephardi Federation is proud to partner with The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and Museum of Jewish Civilization at the University of Hartford in presenting their new exhibition “It was Paradise: Jewish Rhodes.” The exhibition, which is being made possible in part by the generosity of the Avzaradel-Capuano Rhodes Fund and the Korowitz Family Fund, features artifacts on loan from the Rhodes Jewish Museum, historical photographs, maps, and photos of ongoing excavations.
Renowned archaeologist Richard Freund, who directs the Greenberg Center and the university’s archaeological project on Rhodes, will inaugurate the exhibition with a discussion of exciting discoveries made during recent excavations.
The day will conclude with Ladinofest, a concert featuring Susan Feltman Gaeta and Cantor Sanford Cohn preforming Sephardic songs.
22 October at 8PM
at the Congregation Shearith Israel: The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue
8 West 70th Street, New York, NY
The founding Director of the Geniza Research Unit at Cambridge University Library (1973-2006), Professor Reif is the author of many books (A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo, Problems with Prayers, Charles Taylor and the Genizah Collection, and Death in Jewish Life) and articles, and has lectured throughout Europe, Israel, Canada, and the USA. He holds senior research posts at the Universities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, and is currently working on a volume describing and analyzing medieval liturgical fragments from the Cairo Geniza.
28 October at 7PM
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Join Dennis Shasha, one of the editors of Iraq’s Last Jews, as he presents recollections from this remarkable collection of first-person accounts. More than their own stories or even the history of the community, the book provides critical insights into the indelible Jewish imprint on Iraq’s history and culture.
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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’s Sephardi House is located at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York, New York, 10011).
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