admin | March 7, 2020
JERUSALEM (JTA) Israel held its unprecedented third election in less than a year on Monday and, yet again, the results raised more questions than answers. At first it seemed as if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had finally garnered the votes he needed to break the longstanding impasse and consolidate his power.
admin | March 7, 2020
The Forward invited the 15 parties contending for the World Zionist Congress elections, which end March 11, to write an article about why readers should support them. Eight responded by our deadline (well happily publish the others; contact kunza@forward.com).
admin | March 7, 2020
Israel just completed its third national election in two years, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears poised to claim victory and keep his right-wing coalition in power. With 99 percent of the votes counted as of press time, it is highly likely that he will be invited to form the next government.
admin | March 4, 2020
Community Submitted WednesdayMar4,2020at10:03AM Tel Mond, Israel, a Sarasota Sister City, possesses a significant Sephardic Jewish population. Historically identified with the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, Sephardic Jews are found throughout the world today but especially in Israel, France and the U.S. In late February, the Tel Mond Sister City Committee sponsored a Tastes of Sephardic Cooking and Culture program at Arts Center Sarasota.
admin | March 4, 2020
Yaron Zilberman's Incitement is a fine example of the dramatized history lesson that fills in the gaps of our knowledge on the subject of who did what to whom, and why, in the seemingly eternal political turmoil of modern-day Israel. In this case the subject is the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a crime committed to avenge Rabin's rapprochement with the Palestinian people with the emphasis on the assassin, a religiously motivated young Jewish idealist named Yigal Amir. We've seen several well-meaning movies about Arab terrorists in the Middle East and what drives them to take action
admin | March 4, 2020
Gathering 28 years to the day when 613 Azerbaijanis were murdered on 25 February 1992, the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) and Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) hosted the 2nd "Looking in, Speaking Out: Commemorating Khojaly and Standing Against Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing" event at the Center for Jewish History. The event brought together a diverse audience to "remember to victims of ethnic violence, and to acknowledge that effects of genocide do not stay limited to where it was committed. As Martin Luther King, the visionary leader of American civil rights said, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," according to MALA's Founder and Chair Zainab Khan.
admin | March 1, 2020
Yehuda Blum Grace Aguilar Who she was: Grace AguilarWhere and when: Victorian EnglandWhat we know: Born to Portuguese Jewish parents who fled the Inquisition, Grace Aguilar grew up in a London suburb, enmeshed in the sizable Sephardic community even as she led a fairly typical middle-class life. As a child, Aguilar experimented with writing plays and poetry, but like many Victorian female writers, she pursued publication as a way to make money: both of her parents became chronically ill when she was a teenager, forcing her to become the familys breadwinner
admin | March 1, 2020
Thank you for reading Keep The Faith! If you enjoy our content, tell us by leaving a review here Six lead artistshave been announced forthe latest round of Opera NorthsResonance residencies this spring, developing new ideas in workshops andwork in progress performances in Leeds, with the support of PRS Foundation. Launchedin 2017, Resonance offers time, space and resources to professional artists fromBAME backgrounds working in any genre of music and based in the North ofEngland, to take their work in new directions, to experiment with collaboratorsand new ideas, and to test the results in front of audiences
admin | February 28, 2020
In 1952, on South La Brea Avenue, a restaurant called Robaires opened for business.
admin | February 28, 2020
By Joel Davidi Weisberger | February 27, 2020 This piece will focus on how and why some Ashkenazic Jewsboth religious and (later) secularadopted the Sephardic pronunciation of Hebrew because they deemed it superior to the Ashkenazi one.
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