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20 March 2015
In Honor of Joseph Greenberger, a distinguished member of the American Sephardi Federation’s Board of Directors |
In Honor of Joseph Greenberger, a distinguished member of the American Sephardi Federation’s Board of Directors
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“Sephardic Culture, Through the Generations” By George Robinson, The New York Jewish Week The American Sephardi Federation’s New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival has “risen in stature to the point where it usually screens several films that will be theatrically released. Three of this year’s films are particularly worthy of mention,” writes George Robinson, the Jewish Week’s Film Critic, in his review of God’s Slave (Argentina), The Dove Flyer (Iraq), and Orange People (Morocco/Israel). |
 Enrico Macias and his grandson, Symon, preformed before an enraptured, packed audience at Opening Night of the 18th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival |
By George Robinson, The New York Jewish Week
The American Sephardi Federation’s New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival has “risen in stature to the point where it usually screens several films that will be theatrically released. Three of this year’s films are particularly worthy of mention,” writes George Robinson, the Jewish Week’s Film Critic, in his review of God’s Slave (Argentina), The Dove Flyer (Iraq), and Orange People (Morocco/Israel).
Enrico Macias and his grandson, Symon, preformed before an enraptured, packed audience at Opening Night of the 18th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
 An ISIS terrorist in July destroying artifacts inside the purported Tomb of Jonah, Mosul, Iraq |
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“Jihadis wiping out Jewish heritage” By Nathan Jeffay, The Jewish Chronicle Why is the antiquities market from Iraq flooded with artifacts these days, many of them damaged? ISIS is both destroying historic sites, Jewish sites among them, that don’t conform to their puritanical vision of Islam, and selling pillaged artifacts in order to raise revenue for their perpetual, imperialist war. |
An ISIS terrorist in July destroying artifacts inside the purported Tomb of Jonah, Mosul, Iraq
By Nathan Jeffay, The Jewish Chronicle
Why is the antiquities market from Iraq flooded with artifacts these days, many of them damaged? ISIS is both destroying historic sites, Jewish sites among them, that don’t conform to their puritanical vision of Islam, and selling pillaged artifacts in order to raise revenue for their perpetual, imperialist war.
From left to right: Sara Nodjoumi (Artistic Director), Kamal Hachkar (2015 Pomegranate Award Winner – Film), Jason Guberman (Executive Director), Enrico Macias (2014 Pomegranate Award Winner – Lifetime Achievement: Music), Erez Bitton (2015 Pomegranate Award Winner – Lifetime Achievement: Literature), David Dangoor (President)
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“Radical Reformer” By Doug Chandler, The New York Jewish Week Sami Hathroubi is a 30-year old French Muslim of Tunisian descent whose job is to bring Muslims and Jews together. What drives her? “I’m fed up… when you have Jews standing up only against anti-Semitism and when you have Muslims standing up only against Islamophobia.”
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 Samia Hathroubi (Photo courtesy of Foundation for Ethnic Understanding) |
By Doug Chandler, The New York Jewish Week
Sami Hathroubi is a 30-year old French Muslim of Tunisian descent whose job is to bring Muslims and Jews together. What drives her? “I’m fed up… when you have Jews standing up only against anti-Semitism and when you have Muslims standing up only against Islamophobia.”
Samia Hathroubi (Photo courtesy of
Foundation for Ethnic Understanding)
 Chandelier, Sephardi Synagogue, Sofia, Bulgaria (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia by DMY) |
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“Anniversary of prevention of deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi death camps marked in Sofia” By Sofia Globe Staff, Sofia Globe European Holocaust commemorations are often dedicated to remembering how Jews were transported to their death. Bulgaria, however, recently marked how individuals in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, civil society, and government joined together 72 years ago to block the deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps, saving 50,000 people in the process. |
Chandelier, Sephardi Synagogue, Sofia, Bulgaria (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia by DMY)
By Sofia Globe Staff, Sofia Globe
European Holocaust commemorations are often dedicated to remembering how Jews were transported to their death. Bulgaria, however, recently marked how individuals in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, civil society, and government joined together 72 years ago to block the deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps, saving 50,000 people in the process.
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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, NY., 10011).
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