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14 October 2016
Hazak u’Barukh to Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue on the forthcoming dedication of Broome Street as “Hy Genee Way” in honor of KKJ Past President Hyman Genee, A”H |
Hazak u’Barukh to Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue on the forthcoming dedication of Broome Street as “Hy Genee Way” in honor of KKJ Past President Hyman Genee, A”H
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“Mizrahi History Finds Its Place in Israeli Education” By Aryeh Tepper, The Tower Magazine
ASF Director of Publications Aryeh Tepper explains how the Bitton Report, by rooting Israeli identity in its Middle Eastern context, undercuts both the socialist-concocted “negation of the diaspora,” as well as the “fashionable journalistic and academic trend that removes Mizrahi experience from its national, Jewish context and leverages Mizrahi suffering to attack the State of Israel.”
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 Erez Bitton reciting a poem as Aryeh Tepper translates, 18th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, 12 March 2015 |
By Aryeh Tepper, The Tower Magazine
Erez Bitton reciting a poem as Aryeh Tepper translates, 18th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, 12 March 2015
(Photo courtesy of Steven Smith/Guest of a Guest)
 Sonya Loya (right) leads Bnei Anusim on a tour of the ancient Sephardic community of Safed |
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“Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews Are Returning Home to Israel” By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, The Algemeiner
According to estimates, there may be 100 million Bnei Anusim in the world today, descendants of Sephardi Jews who underwent forced conversion during the Inquisition. Many of these Bnei Anusim are awakening to their Jewish ancestry, and some even aspire to return to Israel, dreaming of the day when hundreds of thousands of descendants of Sephardim, “from Cuba, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, India, South America, the Canary Islands and southwestern United States,” return home.
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Sonya Loya (right) leads Bnei Anusim on a tour of the ancient Sephardic community of Safed
(Photo courtesy of The Algemeiner)
By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, The Algemeiner
Meir Banai (Photo courtesy of artist)
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“Chanting Kol Nidre in Tunis: The Sounds of Yom Kippur from a Half Century Ago” By Chris Silver, Jewish Maghrib Jukebox
A Tunisian recording of Kol Nidre from the 1960’s is remarkable on a number of levels. First, the record, “constitutes a rare glimpse into the sonic world of Tunisian Jewish religious life in the 1960s.” Second, in a departure from the traditional synagogue practice, the performance is accompanied by a Qanun. Lastly, the record, “helps shine a light on the “En Nour”… label on which it was released and which seems to have specialized in Tunisian Jewish music throughout the early independence period.”
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 Nathan Cohen, Yom Kippur, circa 1960s |
By Chris Silver, Jewish Maghrib Jukebox
Nathan Cohen, Yom Kippur, circa 1960s
(Photo courtesy of Jewish Maghrib Jukebox)
 Moroccan preserved lemons |
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“Making Moroccan Preserved Lemons in Time for Sukkot” By Elisheva Urbas, The Forward
Looking for something to garnish your upcoming holiday meals? How about Moroccan-style preserved lemons?: “The salty, citrusy, slightly spicy, sour taste is one of the backbones of the North African kitchen.”
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Moroccan preserved lemons
(Photo courtesy of Morocco World News)
By Elisheva Urbas, The Forward
Liberated Libyan Holocaust Survivors (Photo courtesy of Yad Vashem)
Benghazi Bergen-Belsen Special Staged Reading with Yossi Sucary and La Mama Theatres Company
November 14th at 7PM
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Join the American Jewish Historical Society and American Sephardi Federation in celebrating the English-language publication of Benghazi Bergen-Belsen (click here to readThe Sephardi World Weekly’s coverage), the first novel exploring the experiences of Libyan Jews in the Holocaust. Hear a staged reading from the upcoming theatrical adaptation of the novel, premiering at La Mama Theatre in March 2017, and meet author Yossi Sucary for the post-reading Q&A session.
Please click here for tickets
(Tickets:$7 AJHS or ASF Members; $15 General Admission)
Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom
April through October
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation, Portuguese Consulate of New York, the Sousa Mendes Foundation, and the Municipality of Almeida, Portugal proudly present an exhibition in the Leon Levy Gallery honoring Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the courageous and creative Portuguese diplomat who saved Salvador Dali, the authors of Curious George, and thousands of other Holocaust refugees.
Please click here for additional information and viewing hours
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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 is located at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York, New York, 10011).
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