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9 October 2015
In Memory of Egyptian playwright Ali Salem, “a brave and perhaps irreplaceable” advocate for a cosmopolitan Middle East, free of the “culture of death” |
In Memory of Egyptian playwright Ali Salem, “a brave and perhaps irreplaceable” advocate for a cosmopolitan Middle East, free of the “culture of death”
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“‘Shanghai Ghetto’ and Sino-American Relations” By Ronald Tiersky, The World Post The American-China Public Affairs Institute (ACPAI) recently screened the 2002 documentary, “Shanghai Ghetto.” Clandestinely filmed, the movie examines what happened to the small Jewish community of Sephardim and Ashkenazim who lived in Shanghai amongst 100,000 Chinese peasants during WWII.
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 Ohel Rachel Synagogue, Shanghai, China (Photo courtesy of John S Y Lee)
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By Ronald Tiersky, The World Post
Ohel Rachel Synagogue, Shanghai, China (Photo courtesy of John S Y Lee)
 An etrog being carefully wrapped for shipping (Photo courtesy of Aviram Valdman) |
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“PHOTOS: The Etrogim of the Maghreb” By Aviram Valdman, The Tower Magazine Looking for the lemon-like etrog, one of the ‘four species’ that Jews use in celebrating the autumn holiday of Sukkot? Then think about visiting Morocco, a country that has become one of the main suppliers of etrogim. Photographer Aviram Valdman has chronicled his etrog-filled travels from “the city of Marrakesh to the Atlas Mountains and then to the Sahara Desert” in a striking photo essay. |
An etrog being carefully wrapped for shipping (Photo courtesy of Aviram Valdman)By Aviram Valdman, The Tower Magazine
Looking for the lemon-like etrog, one of the ‘four species’ that Jews use in celebrating the autumn holiday of Sukkot? Then think about visiting Morocco, a country that has become one of the main suppliers of etrogim. Photographer Aviram Valdman has chronicled his etrog-filled travels from “the city of Marrakesh to the Atlas Mountains and then to the Sahara Desert” in a striking photo essay.
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“From prosperity to persecution: ‘Fleeing the Hijab’ author details struggle of Iranian Jews” By Sima Goel, The Canadian Jewish News Sima Goel, author of Fleeing the Hijab: A Jewish Woman’s Escape from Iran, remembers life in pre-revolutionary Iran: “At the age of six… as I played with a new friend in the park, the girl’s mother recognized that I was a Jew. She pulled my friend away, muttering, ‘Najest – dirty, impure Jew.’ “While under the Shah, “the word of a Jew was equal to that of a Muslim in court… on the playground, the narrow-minded dictated their own rules.” With the Ayatollahs in power, however, the narrow-minded have moved from running the playground to running the country.
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 Sima Goel (Photo courtesy of the author)
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By Sima Goel, The Canadian Jewish News
Sima Goel (Photo courtesy of the author)
12 October at 7PM
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Yohai Cohen – Tunisian-Israeli
Steven Chera – Syrian-American
David Serero – Moroccan-French
14 October at 7PM
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
18 October at 1PM “It was Paradise: Jewish Rhodes”
at the University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT
and
at 7PM Ladinofest
Emanuel Synagogue
160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT)
The American Sephardi Federation is proud to partner with The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and Museum of Jewish Civilization at the University of Hartford in presenting their new exhibition “It was Paradise: Jewish Rhodes.” The exhibition, which is being made possible in part by the generosity of the Avzaradel-Capuano Rhodes Fund and the Korowitz Family Fund, features artifacts on loan from the Rhodes Jewish Museum, historical photographs, maps, and photos of ongoing excavations.
Renowned archaeologist Richard Freund, who directs the Greenberg Center and the university’s archaeological project on Rhodes, will inaugurate the exhibition with a discussion of exciting discoveries made during recent excavations.
The day will conclude with Ladinofest, a concert featuring Susan Feltman Gaeta and Cantor Sanford Cohn preforming Sephardic songs.
Contact us by email or phone (212-548-4486) to sponsor future issues of the Sephardi World Weekly in honor or memory of loved ones.
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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, New York, 10011).
American Sephardi Federation | http://www.AmericanSephardi.org | info@Sephardi.House | (212) 548-4486
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