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General Topics Series - No. 66 - July 1, 2010
• Al Qaeda's First English Language Magazine Is Here (English)
By Marc Ambinder .
- As the U.S. struggles to manage its efforts to influence opinion about Al Qaeda abroad, Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula has produced its first English-language propaganda magazine. It's called "Insp...
General Topics Series - No. 65 - April 13, 2010
• The Survivor Mitzvah Project (English)
By Zane Buzby and Chic Wolk.
- The Survivor Mitzvah Project considers all Jewish Men, Women and Children who experienced the Holocaust "Survivors," whether they were in ghettos, concentration camps, partisan groups, the Russian arm...
General Topics Series - No. 64 - April 13, 2010
• Survivor Mitzvah Project Finds Angels in America (English)
- Several years ago, during a trip into the former Soviet Union, actress-director Zane Buzby discovered that there were thousands of elderly Holocaust survivors there in desperate need of help. "Many ar...
General Topics Series - No. 63 - April 6, 2010
• Fish and Chips: A Sephardic Delicacy (English)
By Nathan Burstein.
- Forward - Forget the bagels and lox: The most popular Jewish contribution to world cuisine may be, in fact, fish and chips. The quintessentially British meal is celebrating a major birthday this year,...
General Topics Series - No. 62 - April 6, 2010
• The Center for Community Action program, Project H.O.P.E. , provides the vehicle to help us help others fulfill the commandment to observe Passover. (English)
- In communities across the Northeast, B’nai B’rith volunteers have brought Project H.O.P.E (Helping Our People Everywhere), a community action project whose major goal is the collection and distributio...
General Topics Series - No. 61 - March 26, 2010
• Ethiopian Jewry gets its first Haggada: Historic saga will be incorporated into mainstream Pessah story for first time (English)
By Ruth Eglash.
- Immigration & AbsorptionThe historic saga of Ethiopian Jewry, with its unique traditions and customs, will be incorporated into the mainstream Pessah story for the first time in a new Haggada writ...
General Topics Series - No. 60 - March 8, 2010
• The New Faces Of Leadership (English)
By Jane Eisner.
- The Forward 50 began 15 years ago, the brain-child of Seth Lipsky, founding editor of the English Forward, who went in search “of the men and women who are leading the American Jewish community into t...
General Topics Series - No. 59 - March 5, 2010
• Costa Rica elects Jewish VP (English)
By JTA Staff.
- A Jewish former banker was elected the vice president of Costa Rica. Luis Lieberman will become vice president after Costa Rican voters on Sunday elected Laura Chinchilla as the Central American count...
General Topics Series - No. 58 - March 5, 2010
• Moysés Fuks, o criador da expressão Bossa Nova é homenageado na Calçada da Fama de Ipanema (English)
- Para os aficcionados, todo dia é dia de Bossa, mas, no último 25 de janeiro, quando Tom Jobim estaria completando 83 anos, a música que ele ajudou a arquitetar festejou, pela primeira vez, oficialment...
General Topics Series - No. 57 - February 6, 2010
• Preserving the unique heritage of Jamaica’s Jews (English)
By Gil Shefler .
- KINGSTON, Jamaica (JTA) -- Abraham Cohen Henriques, a Jewish merchant from Amsterdam, arrived in Jamaica in 1670 on a mission to find the hidden treasure of Christopher Columbus. Acting on a tip hande...
General Topics Series - No. 56 - February 4, 2010
• Nancy Pelosi's father and the holocaust (English)
- When Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, stepped to the podium at a Knesset dinner during her visit earlier this month, she made history in more ways than one. Not only was s...
General Topics Series - No. 55 - January 29, 2010
• These are difficult times for David Beckham and his family. (English)
- These are difficult times for David Beckham and his family. Joseph, his maternal grandfather, 83 years, died on Wednesday in London .. The star had just arrived in South Africa when he heard the sad n...
General Topics Series - No. 54 - January 29, 2010
• A Shofar For The King Of Spain (English)
- Several years ago [2004], King Juan Carlos of Spain had invited Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger to a commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the passing of the illustrious codifier, philosopher a...
General Topics Series - No. 53 - January 19, 2010
• The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Haiti (English)
By Ariel Scheib.
- The first Jew to settle in Haiti, Luis de Torres, arrived in 1492 as Christopher Columbus’s Converso interpreter. After Haiti was conquered by the French in 1633, many Dutch Jews emigrated from Brazil...
General Topics Series - No. 52 - January 5, 2010
• Canary Islands: Crypto-Jewish history (English)
- Thanks to Harry Stein's Sephardim.com, Tracing the Tribe learned about a century-old paper on Crypto-Jews in the Canary Islands, delivered by Lucien Wolf to the Jewish Historical Society of England in...
General Topics Series - No. 51 - January 5, 2010
• After 500 Years, A Return To Judaism (English)
By Sandee Brawarsky.
- After emerging from the warm waters of the West Side Mikvah last week, Miquel Seguara, above, said, “I feel a relief, like I’m free, clean, purified.” More than five centuries after his ancestors were...
General Topics Series - No. 50 - December 2, 2009
• Emergency Humanitarian Mission to Ukraine (English)
By Jane Ulman.
- Survivor Mitzvah Project co-founder Zane Buzby, right, and Luidmila Petrovna, her guide and translator, on a trip to assist survivors in Belarus in 2007.Zane Buzby, co-founder of The Survivor Mitzvah ...
General Topics Series - No. 49 - October 23, 2009
• Were you on the train? (English)
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL.
- Hedy Mayer, Devora Spira, Peska Friedman and Berta Rubinsztejn felt no need to ask: which train? Only one train was on everyone’s lips on Tuesday night at a Manhattan gathering of Hungarian Jews who h...
General Topics Series - No. 48 - October 13, 2009
• Una nueva exposición en Yad Vashem: Una nueva exposición en Yad Vashem (English)
- Museo Yad Vashem JerusalemLa exhibición cuenta, con fotografías y testimonios, la hazaña de decenas de musulmanes albaneses que, regidos por la ética del Islam, arriesgaron su vida para salvar a cient...
General Topics Series - No. 47 - October 13, 2009
• Judíos Marroquíes del Amazonas (Español)
- La comunidad judía del Amazonas tiene una rica historia de casi dos siglos, mucho más antigua que las comunidades judías de Río o de San Pablo - las más numerosas del Brasil- que es todavía poco conoc...
General Topics Series - No. 46 - October 8, 2009
• The last of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, Marek Edelman, died this weekend (English)
By Guysen.International.News.
- The last of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt in 1943 during World War II, Marek Edelman, died this weekend at the age of 90. Edelman and Mordechai Anielewicz fought against the Nazi storm troop...
General Topics Series - No. 45 - September 24, 2009
• KOL NIDREI E MARRANISMO (English)
By Jane Bichmacher de Glasman*.
- Errar é humano, perdoar é divino”, “Perdão foi feito pra dar”, “Errar é humano, insistir no erro é burrice”... Ditados e canções populares, versões satíricas dos mesmos... Enfim, a constância dos mesm...
General Topics Series - No. 44 - September 10, 2009
• Oy! Google Translate now speaks Yiddish (English)
- Google on Monday announced that it had added nine new languages to its Translate service . Included in the update (which actually went live early last week ) are Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Iris...
General Topics Series - No. 43 - July 20, 2009
• Countries with Largest Jewish Populations (English)
By JewishVirtualLibrary.org.
- Countries with Largest Jewish Populations RankCountryJews% of World Jewish Population 1Israel 5,313,80040.6%2United States 5,275,00040.3%3France 491,5003.8%4Canada 373,5002.9%5United Kingdom 297,0002....
General Topics Series - No. 41 - July 14, 2009
• Cervantes: Desendiente De Konversos? (Ladino)
By AKI YERUSHALAYIM.
- 400 anyos atras, en 1605, era publikado en Madrid el livro de Miguel de Cervantes “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” ke fue rekonosido bien presto komo uno de los kapos-de-ovras mas impor...
General Topics Series - No. 42 - July 11, 2009
• El judeoespañol: una cultura con futuro pero que pronto carecerá de idioma (Español)
- 'La expulsión de los Sefardíes' vista por Emilio Sala. (Imagen: WIKIPEDIA) El judeoespañol es hablado actualmente por unas 300.000 personas. "La edad promedio de los que hablan el judeoespañol supera ...
General Topics Series - No. 40 - June 25, 2009
• The Last Jews of Essaouira (English)
By BRETT KLINE .
- ESSAOUIRA, Morocco - Josef Sebag says he has a fine life in his native Essaouira, though he has no friends here. This retail-artisan heaven for tourists on Morocco's southern Atlantic coast is a town ...
General Topics Series - No. 39 - June 10, 2009
• Bulgaria's Jews (English)
- A great many Jews know the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazis by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats.Very few Jews, know the story of how all 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were sav...
General Topics Series - No. 38 - May 28, 2009
• Sonia Sotomayor NOT the first Hispanic for US Supreme Court (English)
By saudades-sefarad@yahoogroups.com.
- His name was Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, and I think that he would have thought of himself as Sephardic, Hispanic as well as Judeo Portuguese. Look, Judge Cardozo was born in New York City, the son of Re...
General Topics Series - No. 35 - May 11, 2009
• Hard Times Give New Life to Prague's Golem (English)
By DAN BILEFSKY .
- Milan Jaros for The New York Times NY Times - They say the Golem, a Jewish giant with glowing eyes and supernatural powers, is lurking once again in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue here. The Golem,...
General Topics Series - No. 37 - May 10, 2009
• Recrean la vida oculta de los hebreos en Honduras (Español)
Por OSMIN GARCIA.
- El País - Honduras: Un joven historiador del occidente del país, que radica en Israel, ha escrito tres libros, uno de los cuales lleva como título “Los Cripto-judíos en Honduras” y trata sobre la vida...
General Topics Series - No. 36 - May 10, 2009
• Jewish by candlelight - from Spanish converso to modern mixed marriage (English)
By Miriam Shaviv, The Forward .
- Diego Arias was born a Jew in 15th-century Spain, but his parents converted him to Catholicism following a wave of anti-Jewish persecution. Later in life, as royal chief financier of Castile, and one ...
General Topics Series - No. 34 - April 17, 2009
• It's time they knew our names (English)
By STACEY MENCHEL .
- Stella Levi and friends at the Jewish Museum of Rhodes. Photo: CourtesyStanding side by side the women looked identical: malnourished, skeletons - a mere shadow of the vibrant mothers, daughters, and ...
General Topics Series - No. 33 - January 24, 2009
• Argentina: Ashkenazi Jewish history (English)
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General Topics Series - No. 31 - October 12, 2008
• La gallega que salvó a 500 judíos (Español)
By Paco Rego*.
- El quiosco. Era el cuartel general de la red de fuga de judíos que Lola, en colaboración con sus dos hermanas, había creado en 1941 en la estación de Ribadavia. ( Foto: Museo etnolóxico de Ribadavia)L...
General Topics Series - No. 22 - May 9, 2007
• IRON-WORKING: A JUDAIC HERITAGE (English)
By Samuel Kurinsky.
- In the 12th Century BCE, hundreds of Israelite villages proliferated in the hills of Canaan. The Iron Age likewise appeared, coinciding with Israelite settlement. A vivid picture of the agronomic and ...
General Topics Series - No. 21 - May 9, 2007
• Inside Nicolas Sarkozy (English)
- In an interview Nicolas Sarkozy gave in 2004, he expressed an extraordinary understanding of the plight of the Jewish people for a home: “Should I remind you the visceral attachment of every Jew to Is...
General Topics Series - No. 20 - April 19, 2007
• From Auschwitz to Virginia Tech, He survived the camps to save his students lives (English)
- As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech Colleg...
General Topics Series - No. 19 - December 16, 2003
• ¿De donde viene la palavra Ladino? (Ladino)
By Haïm-Vidal.
- La palavra LADINO sale del latin LATINU, ke dyo por las leyes fonetikas ladino por sonorizasyon de la T en D komo SETA dyo SEDA . Los moradores de la Espanya avlaron LATIN, ama kontinuaron dizyendo av...
General Topics Series - No. 18 - December 16, 2003
• A True Story Never Told (English)
- A great many Jew knows the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazi's by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats. Very few Jews, including me, until yesterday, know the story of how a...
General Topics Series - No. 17 - November 19, 2003
• Astrophysics: Ari Sternfeld, genius unknown in the West (English)
By Danielle Wolfowitz*.
- In 1957, the successful launching of Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, by the Soviet Union, astonished the world. This victory of science was based on the research of a genius little know in the ...
General Topics Series - No. 16 - November 19, 2003
• Arie Sternfeld, genio de la astronáutica (Español)
By Danielle Wolfowitz*.
- En 1957, el lanzamiento del primer satélite artificial, el Sputnik, realizado por la Unión Soviética, estremeció al mundo. Este triunfo de la Ciencia se debió a los ...
General Topics Series - No. 15 - November 19, 2003
• Astronautique: Arieh Sternfeld, génie inconnu en Occident (French)
By Danielle Wolfowitz*.
- En 1957, le lancement par l'Union soviétique du premier satellite artificiel stupéfia le monde entier. Cette victoire de la science était basée sur les recherches d'un astr...
General Topics Series - No. 14 - September 3, 2003
• When Missionaries Wrote in Yiddish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Yiddish in America (English)
By Yaakov Ariel.
- Residents of and visitors to Jewish immigrant neighborhoods in America at the turn of the twentieth century noticed a phenomenon that at first glance seemed like an oxymoron -- Christian missionaries ...
General Topics Series - No. 13 - August 26, 2003
• Marrano (English)
- The term marrano refers to the Crypto-Jews from the Iberian peninsula, i.e. descendants of Jews who were forced to adopt the identity of Christians. The term marrano denotes in Spanish "damned," "accu...
General Topics Series - No. 12 - August 26, 2003
• Un cuento de Purim - Historia de Leon y Dina (Español)
- Gran inseguridad reinaba en Bohemia en los tiempos del rey Juan de Luxemburgo, quien solía encontrarse más en los campos de batalla de toda Europa, en busca de hazañas y conquista...
General Topics Series - No. 11 - April 25, 2003
• The Psychological Wisdom of the High Holy Days (English)
- It is no wonder that so many Jews associate Judaism with pain, suffering, and guilt. Quite apart from the history of oppression that shapes many Jews' perception of the world, the fact is that most Am...
General Topics Series - No. 10 - April 25, 2003
• Transkripsyon Del Dekreto De Ekspulsion Ke Fue Anonsyado Por La Reyna Isabella I El Rey Fernando (Ferdinand) De Espania En 1492, Ke Ovligava A Los Judios De Salir Por Entero De La Espania. (Ladino)
- Tomado del livro de las "Bulasy Pragmaticas de los Reyes Catolicos de Johan Ramirez 1503", ahora nuevamente publicado por el Instituto de Espania en Madrid, Ministerio de Justicia 1973, Vol. VI-VII. ...
General Topics Series - No. 9 - April 18, 2003
• Last Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Surviving Commander Calls on Arabs To Cease Fire (English)
By Marek Edelman.
- Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, has issued a public call from his home in Poland for Palestinian fighters to lay down their arms and make peace with Israel. E...
General Topics Series - No. 8 - April 18, 2003
• The Vatican and the Holocaust: A Preliminary Report: Part III. (English)
By The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission.
- Concluding Observations Our preliminary investigation of the eleven volumes has generated many significant questions. Those listed in this document are only a selection of those that could be asked....
General Topics Series - No. 7 - April 18, 2003
• The Vatican and the Holocaust: A Preliminary Report. Part II. (English)
By The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission..
- Questions What follows are some examples of questions that arose in our examination of the documents. For convenience we have grouped these questions into three categories: the first, of a very spec...
General Topics Series - No. 6 - April 18, 2003
• The Vatican and the Holocaust: A Preliminary Report. Part I. (English)
By The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission.
- Submitted to The Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations Preface The International Catholic-Jewish Histori...
General Topics Series - No. 5 - April 18, 2003
• The Salonica Petition Was a Success!! (Ladino)
By Prof. Haím-Vidal Sephiha.
- Huge achievement for Haim Vidal Sephia and the World Sephardic Community! Finally, Ladino will be added to Aushwitz' plates. Up to now, both Ladino and Yiddish have been excluded from the Aushwitz m...
General Topics Series - No. 4 - April 18, 2003
• Address at Morning Prayers (English)
- I speak with you today not as President of the University but as a concerned member of our community about something that I never thought I would become seriously worried about -- the issue of anti-s...
General Topics Series - No. 3 - April 18, 2003
• Oriana Fallaci contra el Antisemitismo (Español)
Por Oriana Fallaci.
- La veterana periodista y escritora vuelve al primer plano de la actualidad al publicar un tenso alegato en el que denuncia el antisemitismo que subyace en el apoyo a la causa palestina y las duras ...
General Topics Series - No. 2 - April 18, 2003
• Oriana Fallaci on Antisemitism Today (English)
By Oriana Fallaci.
- I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they...
General Topics Series - No. 1 - April 17, 2003
• Gene helps Jews resist Alcoholism (English)
- Genes may help explain why Jewish people typically have fewer drink problems than non-Jews, researchers said last month. A study has shown that a genetic mutation carried by at least a fifth of Jews a...
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