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20 November 2015
In Memory of Sir Naim Dangoor, A”H, an Iraqi-British Entrepreneur and Philanthropist |
In Memory of Sir Naim Dangoor, A”H, an Iraqi-British Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
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“Morocco and its Jewish Museum a model of coexistence” By Yehuda Lancry, JNS.org Morocco has been spared the destruction plaguing the region thanks to the Kingdom’s “ability to absorb ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, and translate it into a coherent national identity.” According to Moroccan-born Yehuda Lancry, Israel’s former ambassador to France and the UN, “The edifying fact that a Jewish Museum… has been operating in recent decades in Casablanca is a resounding testimony of the Jewish-Arabic symbiosis in the contemporary Moroccan social fabric.”
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 Zhor Rehihil, the Casablanca Jewish Museum’s head conservatrice, speaking at the ASF-Association Mimouna Moroccan Jewish Caravan, Congregation Shearith Israel: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, 22 October 2014 (Photo courtesy of PAYAM Studio)
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By Yehuda Lancry, JNS.org
Zhor Rehihil, the Casablanca Jewish Museum’s head conservatrice, speaking at the ASF-Association Mimouna Moroccan Jewish Caravan, Congregation Shearith Israel: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, 22 October 2014 (Photo courtesy of PAYAM Studio)
 Navid Negahban in Baba Joon (Photo courtesy of LA Weekly.com and United King Films) |
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“Baba Joon Is the First Film to Explore the Struggle of Jewish Iranians” By Orly Minazad, LA Weekly The Israeli film Baba Joon—“Daddy Dearest” in Persian, investigates how, post-1979, three generations of Jewish-Iranian men “navigate domestic life through cultural and religious divides.” Spoken in Hebrew and Persian and featuring Israeli and Iranian actors, the movie won five Israeli Oscars. The Iranian regime, however, punished an Iranian actor who starred in the movie by banning him from returning to the country. |
Navid Negahban in Baba Joon (Photo courtesy of LA Weekly.com and United King Films)
By Orly Minazad, LA Weekly
The Israeli film Baba Joon—“Daddy Dearest” in Persian, investigates how, post-1979, three generations of Jewish-Iranian men “navigate domestic life through cultural and religious divides.” Spoken in Hebrew and Persian and featuring Israeli and Iranian actors, the movie won five Israeli Oscars. The Iranian regime, however, punished an Iranian actor who starred in the movie by banning him from returning to the country.
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“The evolution of Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes” By William Armstrong, Hurriyet Daily News The 17th century false Jewish messiah, Sabbatei Sevi, converted to Islam but practiced a strange Jewish-Islamic faith until he died in Turkey. Some of Sevi’s followers believed in their leader’s messianic mission until the end, and then refused to return to normative Judaism; they came to be known as Dönmes. In The Burden of Silence: Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes, historian Cengiz Şişman explores the history of the Dönmes from the 17th century until today. “Some have painted the Dönmes,” according to Şişman, “as a secret branch of world Jewry,” bent on undermining Islam in Turkey.
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 The only known portrait of Shabbatai Sevi, sketched from memory by an eyewitness at Smyrna, 1665 (Thomas Coenen, Ydele Verwachting der Joden, Amsterdam, 1669)
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By William Armstrong, Hurriyet Daily News
The only known portrait of Shabbatai Sevi, sketched from memory by an eyewitness at Smyrna, 1665 (Thomas Coenen, Ydele Verwachting der Joden, Amsterdam, 1669)
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