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7 NOVEMBER 2014
In Memory of Alfred A. Shasha, z’l
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 ElMehdi Brouda of Association Mimouna speaking at ASF’s Moroccan Jewish Caravan Event, October 22nd |
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“Morocco’s Unlikely Keepers of Jewish Culture” By Zachary Schrieber, Tablet Magazine Over 200 people gathered at New York’s Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue for an evening featuring Moroccan dignitaries and young social entrepreneurs who are working with the American Sephardi Federation to preserve the Judeo-Moroccan past, connect in the present, and build a tolerant future. |
ElMehdi Brouda of Association Mimouna speaking at ASF’s Moroccan Jewish Caravan Event, October 22nd
By Zachary Schrieber, Tablet Magazine
Over 200 people gathered at New York’s Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue for an evening featuring Moroccan dignitaries and young social entrepreneurs who are working with the American Sephardi Federation to preserve the Judeo-Moroccan past, connect in the present, and build a tolerant future.
By Marilyn Fahem
Instructions: 1.) Wash zucchini well, cut off tips, then cut each in half, 2.) Scoop inside of zucchinis out leaving only a thin shell, 3.) Prepare filling: combine and mix meat, rice, water, vegetable oil, and spices, 4.) Prepare sauce: combine temerhinidi with lemon juice, 5.) Place stuffed zucchini in tight formation within a pot, 6.) Cover with sauce and apricots (liquid should be about 1 1/2 inches deep), 7.) Cook for 2 1/2 hours until tender.
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“How Iranian Jews Shaped Modern Los Angeles.” By Gina Nahai, The Jewish Daily Forward LA’s dynamism stems in part from Persians, who transformed neighborhoods such as Beverly Hills, which, before their arrival, was fast becoming “a sleepy little village populated by cranky Eastern European Jews and polyester-clad Episcopalians from the Midwest.” |
 Wilshire-Wetherly Building Photo courtesy of its award-winning architect, Yassi Gabbay |
By Gina Nahai, The Jewish Daily Forward
LA’s dynamism stems in part from Persians, who transformed neighborhoods such as Beverly Hills, which, before their arrival, was fast becoming “a sleepy little village populated by cranky Eastern European Jews and polyester-clad Episcopalians from the Midwest.”
Wilshire-Wetherly Building
Photo courtesy of its award-winning architect, Yassi Gabbay
 The legendary al-Kuwaiti Brothers with the Baghdad Broadcasting House Band, 1938 Photo courtesy of The Scribe |
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“The Jews of Kuwait” By Nasser Bader Al-‘Eidan, Al-Rai A Kuwaiti columnist recently lamented how “[t]he history of the Jews in Kuwait is important, but most of our generation knows nothing about it, and our textbooks ignore it.”
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The legendary al-Kuwaiti Brothers with the Baghdad Broadcasting House Band, 1938
Photo courtesy of The Scribe
By Nasser Bader Al-‘Eidan, Al-Rai
A Kuwaiti columnist recently lamented how “[t]he history of the Jews in Kuwait is important, but most of our generation knows nothing about it, and our textbooks ignore it.”
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“The Andalusian Music: A Bridge Between Muslim and Jewish Heritage” By Lynn Sheppard, Morocco World News An exploration of the diverse (Arabic, Amazigh, Muslim and Jewish) roots of a music with enduring, universal appeal.
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 Orchestra of Fes
Photo courtesy of Caravanserai: A place where cultures meet |
By Lynn Sheppard, Morocco World News
An exploration of the diverse (Arabic, Amazigh, Muslim and Jewish) roots of a music with enduring, universal appeal.
Photo courtesy of Caravanserai: A place where cultures meet
 Sami Michael Photo courtesy of Emet Prize for Science, Art, and Culture |
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“Sami Michael: The Discreet Ironist of Israeli Literature” By Noga Emanuel, Fathom A look at how this Baghdad-born writer is “neither nostalgic for an idyllic exile past in the ‘old country,’ nor sentimental about the present, but [has become the] emblematic, ironic, unique, all-Israeli voice of ‘Otherness’ and edgy Israeli pluralism.” |
Sami Michael
Photo courtesy of Emet Prize for Science, Art, and Culture
By Noga Emanuel, Fathom
A look at how this Baghdad-born writer is “neither nostalgic for an idyllic exile past in the ‘old country,’ nor sentimental about the present, but [has become the] emblematic, ironic, unique, all-Israeli voice of ‘Otherness’ and edgy Israeli pluralism.”
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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).
American Sephardi Federation | http://www.Sephardi.House | info@Sephardi.House | (212) 294-8350
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