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11 September 2015
Dedicated to the heroes of Flight 93 and those who, 14 years after al-Qaeda’s atrocity at New York, continue to courageously “confront the blood-stained face [of] history (Camus).” |
Dedicated to the heroes of Flight 93 and those who, 14 years after al-Qaeda’s atrocity at New York, continue to courageously “confront the blood-stained face [of] history (Camus).”
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“On Greek isle of Rhodes, Jews return to celebrate ancient community all but wiped out” By Gavin Rabinowitz, Jewish Journal Jews lived on the Greek island of Rhodes for 2,000 years, “up until July 23, 1944, when the last among them were deported to Auschwitz.” Memorial services have been held on the island in recent years for the original Jewish community. According to long-time ASF supporter Stella Levi, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, “we were all one family, and that’s what we are trying to pass on to the new generation.”
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 Rabbinical College of Rhodes, 1934 (Photo courtesy of Rhodes Jewish Museum)
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By Gavin Rabinowitz, Jewish Journal
Rabbinical College of Rhodes, 1934 (Photo courtesy of Rhodes Jewish Museum)
 Torah Ark, Magen Avraham Synagogue, Beirut, Lebanon, 1982 (Photo courtesy of Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People) |
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“Israeli describes Lebanese flight in Arab press” By Edy Cohen, El Wattan (via Point of No Return) Dr. Edy Cohen of Bar-Ilan University left Lebanon with his family at the age of 23. In a remembrance that he recently penned for Al-Wattan, “ From a Judeo-Arab Heart to the Gracious Kuwaiti People,” Cohen recalls a more tolerant Middle East: “as Christians, Muslims, and Jews, we would play together in the alleys. School benches joined us together without distinguishing among us on the basis of differences in religious affiliation.”
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Torah Ark, Magen Avraham Synagogue, Beirut, Lebanon, 1982 (Photo courtesy of Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People) By Edy Cohen, El Wattan (via Point of No Return)
Dr. Edy Cohen of Bar-Ilan University left Lebanon with his family at the age of 23. In a remembrance that he recently penned for Al-Wattan, “ From a Judeo-Arab Heart to the Gracious Kuwaiti People,” Cohen recalls a more tolerant Middle East: “as Christians, Muslims, and Jews, we would play together in the alleys. School benches joined us together without distinguishing among us on the basis of differences in religious affiliation.”
King David Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center
2266 Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11214
September 10th at 7PM
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Join the American Jewish Historical Society with American Sephardi Federation for a multi-faceted look at Yitzhak Gormezano-Goren’s recently translated novel, Alexandrian Summer, which explores how it all fell apart.
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