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3 July 2015
In Honor of David E.R. Dangoor, President of the American Sephardi Federation |
In Honor of David E.R. Dangoor, President of the American Sephardi Federation
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“Spain’s “Camp Kill-Jews” Gets a New Name” By Jonah Shepp, Slate While the French citizens of La Mort aux Juifs (“Death to the Jews”) have twice resisted change, the Spanish citizens of Castrillo Matajudio (“Camp Kill-Jews”) recently voted for their village’s name to revert to Castrillo Mota de Judíos (“Jews’ Hill Camp”). The original name change, which occurred in 1627, may have been due to conversos protesting their Catholic confession too much.
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 Castrillo Mota de Judíos’s tumultuous connection to Jews is evident in its seal, which is adorned with the Star of David (Image courtesy of Wikimedia) |
By Jonah Shepp, Slate
Castrillo Mota de Judíos’s tumultuous connection to Jews is evident in its seal, which is adorned with the Star of David (Image courtesy of Wikimedia)
 The former Harat al-Yahud (Jewish Quarter), Cairo, Egypt, 2014 (Photo courtesy of Gamal/Diarna Geo-Museum) |
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“Reinventing Egypt’s Jews” By Steven A. Kook, Council of Foreign Relations “In what can only be described as a stunning turn of events, Jews—though not Israelis—have become ‘What’s Hot’in the [Middle East], and the Muslim Brotherhood has become ‘What’s Not.’” |
The former Harat al-Yahud (Jewish Quarter), Cairo, Egypt, 2014 (Photo courtesy of Gamal/Diarna Geo-Museum)
By Steven A. Kook, Council of Foreign Relations
“In what can only be described as a stunning turn of events, Jews—though not Israelis—have become ‘What’s Hot’in the [Middle East], and the Muslim Brotherhood has become ‘What’s Not.’”
A first edition of another Stratford-connected Sephardi’s work, the first American-English translation of the siddur by Isaac Pinto, was one of the rare books and artifacts from the American Sephardi Federation’s collection on display in The David Berg Rare Book Room’s exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, which closed July 2nd (Photo courtesy of John Halpern/Center for Jewish History).
Grace, a gifted writer, shared her family’s sentiments and poured her ardent love of America and the Jewish people into poems and correspondence. In celebration of this year’s Independence Day, we offer our readers a stirring passage from one of Grace’s letters to her niece, in which she proudly proclaims her Patriotism—and her contempt for British imperialist revanchism!—
during the War of 1812:|
“America’s Oldest Synagogue Wrestles With Court Battle — and Its Own Decline” By Paul Berger, Forward Touro Synagogue was founded and sustained by waves of Sephardi immigrants until the beginning of the 19th century, after which it was home to Jews from Eastern Europe. Today, the Jewish community at Newport, Rhode Island, is fading, and there is a real possibility that America’s oldest synagogue will soon find itself without a congregation. |
 Torah Ark, Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island (Photo courtesy of Touro Synagogue) |
By Paul Berger, Forward
Touro Synagogue was founded and sustained by waves of Sephardi immigrants until the beginning of the 19th century, after which it was home to Jews from Eastern Europe. Today, the Jewish community at Newport, Rhode Island, is fading, and there is a real possibility that America’s oldest synagogue will soon find itself without a congregation.
Torah Ark, Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island (Photo courtesy of Touro Synagogue) 
“Religious Liberties and the Bill of Rights,” an online exhibit of the Ambassador John L. Loeb Visitors Center, Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island.
A Reading of George Washington’s Letter to the
Jewish Congregation at Newport
3:15PM on The Fourth of July
in front of Fraunces Tavern
54 Pearl Street, Lower Manhattan
The American Sephardi Federation proudly recommends joining Da’at Elohim: Temple of Universal Judaism for a meaningful Independence Day commemoration: a reading of George Washington’s August 1790 letter assuring “the children of the stock of Abraham” that “every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree….” While addressed to Newport’s Sephardic community, Washington delivers a universal message:
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
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Copyright © 2015 American Sephardi Federation, All rights reserved.
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, NY., 10011).
American Sephardi Federation | http://www.Sephardi.House | info@Sephardi.House | (212) 548-4486
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