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Proud to have attended the reception and breakfast meeting in honor of H.E. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye, at the Turkish House in New York. The Foreign Minister shared his and his country’s views with the #Jewish community leading members. He offered his vision of how #Turkey, #Israel, and […]
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In an interview with le 360. ma Serge Berdugo, President of the Council of Jewish Communities in Morocco, discussed the cultural and economic issues at stake in the ongoing lockdown of kosher services in Morocco. For him, it is a question of putting an end to prejudicial chaos in the country, which is preparing to […]
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Marrakech, a mythical city with a unique charm is home to the Atlas Asni hotel. They recently opened “Axo” the first Kosher restaurant in the hotel, providing the Kosher consumer with breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Axo restaurant will be open all year round and is also taking reservations for Shabbos meals. They have separate meat […]
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with Istanbul’s Jewish community on the second and final day of his brief but historic diplomatic visit to Turkey. Herzog spoke at the Neve Shalom Synagogue, where he was greeted with joyful clapping and shofar blasts. The President asked those assembled at the house of worship to pray for “our […]
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What does it mean to be Italian? Is it pausing to enjoy an Aperitivo or gelato? A passeggiata down a laneway steeped in history? An August spent tanning at the beach? This book is a celebration of the Italian lifestyle – an education in drinking to savor the moment, traveling indulgently, and cherishing food and […]
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Ezra Choueke didn’t set out to write a book, but after hearing his grandmother’s fascinating stories, he knew he had to publish them. When Ezra Choueke was in his early 30s, he started interviewing his grandmother, Lucie Choueke, about her life. She was in her 80s and lived in Japan, which was only a three-hour […]
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The exhibition: ‘The Objects of Love by Oliver Sears, which tells the fate of individual lives torn asunder in Nazi-occupied Poland and beyond opened in Dublin Castle’s Bedford Hall on 12 January. Told through a curated collection of precious family objects, photographs, and documents, Dublin-based art dealer Oliver Sears vividly brings to life this extreme […]
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At least 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews have become citizens of Portugal or Spain since 2015, when those countries passed laws offering a naturalization process for such applicants, according to the most updated information data from the two countries. The laws were meant to atone for the Inquisition, a campaign of religious persecution unleashed at […]
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Researchers from Israel, Morocco and France have discovered remnants of a small Jewish community in the mountains of Morocco, Haaretz reported Monday. The ruins of the community’s synagogue in the small village of Tamanart – located on the outskirts of the Sahara desert – were found while conducting a preliminary survey of Jewish sites in […]
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In a world of fake news and hype, what distinguishes theories from conspiracy theories? Do certain issues and rhetoric, such as anti-Zionism, receive a protected platform on university campuses around the United States? Is there an anti-Jewish bias in academia, and if so, does that create problems in other areas of society? Is there a […]
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