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Surrounding Cairos Tahrir Square, houses confiscated from Jewish families host Egypts top foreign embassies. To this day, ambassadors from Germany, Switzerland, and the United States work or live in homes expropriatedfrom Jews after 1948, while other formerly Jewish-owned homes became the Great Library of Cairo and government offices. The expulsion of 850,000 mostly Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) and Sephardic Jews from Arab and Muslim countries took place before, during, and after the Holocaust
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admin | December 5, 2021
As an emerging picture-book writer, Ive been immersing myself in the world of Jewish childrens literature for a while now. And Ive been especially happy to encounter multiple books that have broadened my own, grown-up appreciation for Israel
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admin | December 5, 2021
My paternal grandfather Anis was born an Ottoman subject in 1885 but died an Arab citizen. He passed away in 1977 at the age of 92, two years into Lebanons civil war
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admin | December 5, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxury shoe designer Stuart Weitzman has made a transformative gift to the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH), in recognition of which, the Museum has been renamed the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, or "The Weitzman". Stuart Weitzman Makes Significant Gift to National Museum of American Jewish History This gift builds on many years of prior support from Weitzman for the landmark institution on historic Independence Mall in Philadelphia and, importantly, seeds the Museum's endowment.
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admin | December 5, 2021
(JTA) Curb Your Enthusiasm has always been a Jewy show, but this season it is downright Jewish. On the HBO sitcom, now in its 11th season, Larry David has never been shy about surfacing, and lampooning, Judaism and Jewishness. He has contemplated the dilemmas of Holocaust survival, waded into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (via a local chicken restaurant) and gotten stranded on a ski lift with an Orthodox Jew on Shabbat.
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admin | December 5, 2021
Tonight, we will light the sixth candle of the Hannukah Menorah. Its a season of joy, illumination, resolve and family celebrations.
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admin | December 5, 2021
San Francisco favorite Liholiho Yacht Club is gearing up to close its temporary Mission District pop-up and reopen as a different restaurant with an exciting new menu and an ambitious mission. Good Good Culture Club will open on Jan
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admin | December 5, 2021
BY NORA VOSBIGIAN Vahagn Vardanyan is a dynamic political geographer who teaches at Han Academy in Hong Kong and holds a senior leadership position there. Working with Armenian communities for nearly two decades in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kolkata, and especially Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth, he has introduced a whole new perspective even language in Armenia and Diaspora Studies. Furthermore, in a more practical mode, he has applied his knowledge and worked with Armenian authorities to pave a new avenue in Armenias relations with diasporan communities
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admin | December 5, 2021
The Herald Dr Masimba Mavaza The Zimbabwean community in the United Kingdom recently hosted a Christmas dinner in London. The celebration was not only limited to Zimbabweans, but some guests from African nations and also included other international guests who are staying away from home during the festival season. Mr Mambo Bedford Chimbima, one of the organisers of the dinner said: Usually the celebration is limited to the Zimbabweans, however, due to Covid-19 pandemic scenario and travel ban, many nationals have to celebrate the festival here in the UK
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admin | December 5, 2021
Breadcrumb Trail Links Author of the article: In his famous and immortal novel Kanthapura (1938), Raja Rao, one of the Big Three of Indian-English novelists (the other two being R. K
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