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14 NOVEMBER 2014
In Honor of Shahram Yaghobzadeh and Elias Kalimian of the Iranian American Jewish Federation
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 Ma’alla Jewish cemetery in Aden, Yemen (Photo courtesy of Diarna Geo-Museum/Ben Ragsdale) |
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New Novel Features Jewish Henna By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth, Jewish Exponent Inspired by her Yemeni-Israeli aunt, Nomi Eve’s second novel, Henna House, is an intimate family portrait of Yemeni-Jewish life in the early 20th century that explores the peril of the Orphans’ Decree, which held that Jewish children under age 12 who lost their fathers could be taken from their families and converted. |
Ma’alla Jewish cemetery in Aden, Yemen (Photo courtesy of Diarna Geo-Museum/Ben Ragsdale)
By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth, Jewish Exponent
Inspired by her Yemeni-Israeli aunt, Nomi Eve’s second novel, Henna House, is
an intimate family portrait of Yemeni-Jewish life in the early 20th century that explores the peril of the Orphans’ Decree, which held that Jewish children under age 12 who lost their fathers could be taken from their families and converted.By Diarna Geo-Museum
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“Is world Jewry ready for another holiday?” By Shai Afsai, Jerusalem Post Once celebrated only in Ethiopia, the Jewish holiday expressing longing for Jerusalem, Sigd (“Prostration” in Ge’ez), is now an official state holiday in Israel. |
 An Ethiopian Jew celebrating Sigd in Israel (Photo courtesy of the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews) |
By Shai Afsai, Jerusalem Post
Once celebrated only in Ethiopia, the Jewish holiday expressing longing for Jerusalem, Sigd (“Prostration” in Ge’ez), is now an official state holiday in Israel.
An Ethiopian Jew celebrating Sigd in Israel (Photo courtesy of the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews)
 Unveiling of the memorial to Salonika’s Jewish community |
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“Boutaris breaks silence on Thessaloniki’s hidden shame” By Stavros Tzimas, Kathimerini Condemning both the eradication of Salonika’s Jewish community during World War II and subsequent decades of denial by city officials, Mayor Yiannis Boutaris recently unveiled a monument atop the former Jewish cemetery. Built by Sephardim in 1493, the cemetery was destroyed in 1942. |
Unveiling of the memorial to Salonika’s Jewish community
By Stavros Tzimas, Kathimerini
Condemning both the eradication of Salonika’s Jewish community during World War II and subsequent decades of denial by city officials, Mayor Yiannis Boutaris recently unveiled a monument atop the former Jewish cemetery. Built by Sephardim in 1493, the cemetery was destroyed in 1942.
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“Mumbai’s Muslim engraver at work in Jewish cemetery” By Agence France-Presse Mohammad Abdul Yaseen has been tending to the Jewish tombstones of Mumbai’s central cemetery for over 40 years, inscribing memorials in English, the Indian language of Marathi, and Hebrew, a language in which this former temporary worker has become fluent.
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 Mr. Yaseen engraving a Jewish gravestone (Photo credit: AFP Photo/Indranil Mukherjee)
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By Agence France-Presse
Mohammad Abdul Yaseen has been tending to the Jewish tombstones of Mumbai’s central cemetery for over 40 years, inscribing memorials in English, the Indian language of Marathi, and Hebrew, a language in which this former temporary worker has become fluent.
 The 11th edition of Essouira’s Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques |
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“The Spirit of Essaouira at the Heart of Judeo-Arabic Culture” By Bernard Foccroulle, Huffington Post The Moroccan city of Essaouria recently celebrated Morocco’s Jewish-Arab musical heritage with a festival organized by André Azoulay, a senior advisor to King Mohammed VI, and starring the Moroccan-Israeli payytan, Rabbi Haim Louk. |
The 11th edition of Essouira’s Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques
By Bernard Foccroulle, Huffington Post
The Moroccan city of Essaouria recently celebrated Morocco’s Jewish-Arab musical heritage with a festival organized by André Azoulay, a senior advisor to King Mohammed VI, and starring the Moroccan-Israeli payytan, Rabbi Haim Louk.
Join us at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street) on November 20th at 7PM for “Mizrahi Music, Piyyut, and the Search for Israeli Identity,” a multimedia-rich lecture by Dr. Aryeh Tepper, ASF’s Director of Publications and Online Educational Programming. Click here for more details and to RSVP.
Class @ ASF’s Sephardi House in the Center for Jewish History: The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research’s “Jews and the Colonial Project” starts November 25th. Members receive a 10% Discount. Click here for additional information and to register.
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Copyright © 2014 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. We apologize if this message was sent in error.
The American Sephardi Federation is located at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York, NY., 10011).
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