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18 December 2015
In Honor of Lord David Alliance, CBE, the Kashan-born British entrepreneur who covertly helped Israel rescue Sudan’s Ethiopian Jewish refugees |
In Honor of Lord David Alliance, CBE, the Kashan-born British entrepreneur who covertly helped Israel rescue Sudan’s Ethiopian Jewish refugees
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“From Secular to Sacred: Rabbi David Buzaglo, Samy Elmaghribi, & Paul Bowles’ 1959 Field Recordings” By Chris Silver, Jewish Maghrib Jukebox In Andalusian music, “Melodies intended for coffee shops and cabarets soon [make] their way into religious spaces.” In 1959, one such conversion was unintentionally caught on tape: a recording made in a Moroccan synagogue captures Rabbi David Buzaglo, the great, 20th century Moroccan payytan, transforming Samy Elmaghribi’s 1950’s hit tune, “Qaftanec mahloul” (“Your robe is open, my lady”), into a piyyut, “El hay ram gadol” (“Living, exalted, great God”).
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 Samy Elmaghribi (Photo courtesy of Foundation Samy Elmaghribi) |
By Chris Silver, Jewish Maghrib Jukebox
Samy Elmaghribi (Photo courtesy of Foundation Samy Elmaghribi)
 Ethiopian Jews arriving in Israel, 2013 (Photo courtesy of Miriam Alster/Flash90) |
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“Dramatic rescue of 20,000 Ethiopian Jews retold in BBC film” Jewish News The rescue of Ethiopian Jewry is an astonishing story of ingenuity, audacity, and self-sacrifice that embodied Israel’s mission of saving Jews, wherever they might be: “At one time there were 28 planes in the sky together. One plane took 1,088 people on board, a figure that remains an aviation record to this day. Former Mossad operative, Gad Shimron said: ‘The planes were so heavy, they made lanes in the tarmac of Addis Ababa.’” This epic tale of biblical proportions was recently told in a BBC documentary, “Saving the Forgotten Jews.” |
Ethiopian Jews arriving in Israel, 2013 (Photo courtesy of Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Jewish News
The rescue of Ethiopian Jewry is an astonishing story of ingenuity, audacity, and self-sacrifice that embodied Israel’s mission of saving Jews, wherever they might be: “At one time there were 28 planes in the sky together. One plane took 1,088 people on board, a figure that remains an aviation record to this day. Former Mossad operative, Gad Shimron said: ‘The planes were so heavy, they made lanes in the tarmac of Addis Ababa.’” This epic tale of biblical proportions was recently told in a BBC documentary, “Saving the Forgotten Jews.”
Ethiopian Jews celebrating the Sigd holiday in Jerusalem, Israel, 2008 (Photo courtesy of Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews/Wikimedia)
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“New Light Shed on Sephardic Sources for [C]hanukkah Heroes” By Ty Alhadeff, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies The Story of Judith and the Scroll of Antiochus are Chanukkah tales of ancient Jewish heroism. Left out of the mainstream of traditional literature, the stories were preserved in Sephardi communities until they were revived in Zionist literature. The Sephardi-Zionist connection can be seen in a 1904 prayer book authored by Rabbi Ya’aḳov Moshe Ḥai Alṭarats in which the Scroll of Antiochus is followed by R’Altarats’ admonition: “From this historical incident and others like it, we may contemplate the heroism of our people, and how fearlessly we (our people) fought like lions in defense of our God, and His law, and for their land, men who glorified our nation…”
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 Meknes Synagogue Marrakech, Morocco (Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African & Middle Eastern Jewish Life) |
By Ty Alhadeff, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Meknes Synagogue Marrakech, Morocco
(Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African & Middle Eastern Jewish Life)
January 13th, 17th, 19th, and 21st
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Back by popular demand, the American Sephardi Federation invites you to David Serero’s Merchant of Venice. Playing sold-out shows in the summer, the French-Moroccan baritone opera singer once again directs and stars (as Shylock) in his Sephardi adaptation of Shakespeare’s play about love, commerce, and bigotry. Featuring a diverse cast and Sephardi music, there will be a preview matinee on January 13th, ahead of opening night on January 17th.
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