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03 March 2017
Mazel tov to Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice Chairman and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, on leading a successful Mission to Morocco, Egypt, Israel, and Cyprus. ASF was honored to be part of the Mission. |
Mazel tov to Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice Chairman and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, on leading a successful Mission to Morocco, Egypt, Israel, and Cyprus. ASF was honored to be part of the Mission.
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“Jewish History is Under Siege in the Middle East and These Volunteers are Risking Their Lives to Protect It” By Emily Feldman, Newsweek International
Diarna, the online Geo-Museum dedicated to digitally preserving Jewish sites throughout the Middle East and North Africa, was co-founded and developed by the American Sephardi Federation’s Executive Director, Jason Guberman-P. Now the research engine of the ASF, Diarna was recently featured on the cover of Newsweek International with an in-depth article: “Guberman did not want what happened in World War II in Europe—the Nazis destroying hundreds of synagogues—to happen in the Middle East. Without physical evidence of Jewish culture, the world’s understanding of Jewish communities in the Arab world will disappear with the death of the last generation who can remember them.”
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 Newsweek International Cover, 03 March 2017 |
By Emily Feldman, Newsweek International
Newsweek International Cover, 03 March 2017
Rabbi Yehiel Nahari
(Photo courtesy of Avi Yaffe Jerusalem Recording Studies)
In honor of Purim, Israeli payytan Yehiel Nahari puts on an astonishing display of soulful vocal acrobatics in classic Jerusalem-Sephardi style with two piyyutim, “I Will Thank God” (Odeh le’HaShem) and “My Lord, the Rock of My Salvation” (Eli Tzur Yeshuati).
 Devin E. Naar stands amidst Aristotle University’s Holocaust Memorial |
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“The younger generation now should reclaim Judeo-Spanish” By Canan Bolel, Salom
A Turkish graduate student sat down for an interview with ASF Advisory Board Member and Chair of Sephardi Studies at the University of Washington Prof. Devin Naar to discuss Ladino, Eastern Mediterranean Jewry, and increased interest in Sephardic studies: “Sephardic Studies is on the rise in the United States. Study of the Sephardic experience… is attractive to students and scholars who are interested in better understanding the nuanced relationships between Jews and Muslims… who want to expand their knowledge of Jewish culture beyond the dominant images of Ashkenazi shtetls… and who want to explore interconnections between different cultures.”
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Devin E. Naar stands amidst Aristotle University’s Holocaust Memorial
(Photo courtesy of Iosif Vaena)
By Canan Bolel, Salom
What Americans Really Think About Jews and Israel
9 March 2017 at 7:30PM
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation is proud to host The Algemeiner Editor’s Club for an exclusive book signing and an interactive discussion with highly acclaimed author Tuvia Tenenbom!
In his newest book, The Lies They Tell, Tuvia travels through the 50 states to meet the people who make up America.
He visits megachurches, Indian reservations and black ghettos. He dines with wealthy whites and flirts with Arab virgins. He schmoozes with robbers and finagles his way into a prison. He mingles with American soldiers and joins intellectuals…. and from all these encounters, Tuvia uncovers the real America; a place you call home but don’t yet know!
Now, for the first time, he will reveal what he discovered about how Americans really see Israel and the Jews.
Click here or call 212.376.4988 to RSVP (Required)
New York Sephardic Film Festival
March 30 – April 6, 2017
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation presents the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival’s 20th Anniversary Edition.
Through the poignant medium of film, the NYSJFF provides viewers with an understanding of the rich mosaic culture of Jews from the Middle East and greater Sephardic Diaspora. Select nights are dedicated to the Moroccan, Iraqi, Greek, and Yemenite Jewish communities.
Opening Night plus Festival Pass = $100
Festival Pass excluding Opening Night = $50
Young Professionals Night= $25
Individual Film = $10
Click here or call 1.800.838.3006 for Program Listings, Film Descriptions, and Pass & Ticket Options
Click here or call 917.606.8266 for Sponsorship & Advertising Opportunities
Special Announcement
Sephardic Birthright Trip Summer 2017
Sephardic Communities in New York, Miami, and Seattle, are joining together to create a Sephardic Birthright Israel Trip this Summer from August 7th to August 17th! If you’ve never been on Birthright before and want to go to Israel for free, this is your chance! For 10 days, you’ll be able to travel around the country with amazing people with Sephardic, Greek, and Turkish backgrounds, all while exploring everything Israel has to offer. You’ll be able to ride camels in the desert, raft down the Jordan River, explore the Old City in Jerusalem, and a whole lot more.
The trip is totally free and anyone between the ages of 18 and 26 who hasn’t been on a Birthright Israel trip before is eligible. What’s more, we are working on creating an extended portion of the Trip to Greece! Even if you’ve been to Israel before on a non-birthright trip you may still be eligible.
Register HERE today and be sure to select the “Sephardic Experience” Trip. Registration takes less than 10 minutes and no final commitment is necessary. If you have any question, be sure to email us atinfo@sephardicbrotherhood.com and be sure to check out some of the amazing pictures from last year’s trip and our promo video made by one of our very own trip participants!
Note: While not an ASF program, ASF is proud of the members of our Young Leadership Board who are involved in organizing this trip
When Baghdadi Jews Baruch and Ellen Bekhor (née Cohen) succumbed to the camera’s gaze for their denaturalization pictures in 1951, they became stateless. Ellen was in her eighth month of pregnancy. Permitted to bring no more than a few kilos of belongings out of Iraq, Ellen carried their wedding picture and ketubah in her pocketbook. Laissez-Passer, Royaume D’Irak by Leslie Starobin (2016)
Through April 2017
in ASF’s Myron Habib Memorial Display
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation proudly presents excerpts from The Last Address, a multi-year, photo-montage series and oral history and book project by award-winning artist Leslie Starobin that explores the enduring texture of memory and culture in the lives of Greater Sephardic families from dispersed Jewish communities in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Lebanon.
Leslie Starobin is a Boston-area photographer and montage artist. Her work is in the permanent collections of many academic (Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University) and public (Jewish Museum, MoMA) museums. Starobin is the recipient of numerous grants, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation of the Arts/Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Most recently, she received two Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Grants for this series, The Last Address.
Her exhibition in ASF’s Myron Habib Memorial Display is sponsored in part by CELTSS: The Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship and Service at Framingham State University in Massachusetts, where Starobin is a Professor of Communication Arts.
Please click here for additional information and viewing hours
Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom
Through June 2017
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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