admin | January 4, 2020
Around 1492 my ancestors, the Papos, fled Iberia for the Middle East or southern Europe, along with hundreds of thousands of other Jews, in what became a vast Sephardic diaspora. Then, in the early 1800s, the Papo descendants moved to Jerusalem, thriving as rabbis and agronomists for more than a century, until World War I.
admin | January 4, 2020
If there's one thing Dora Beraha regrets in her twilight years, it is not passing on the 500-year-old language of Istanbul's Jews, Ladino, now on the point of extinction. "After us, will there still be people who speak this language?" says 90-year-old Beraha.
admin | January 4, 2020
Yesterday, we went to see the new Adam Sandler movie, Uncut Gems. The movie is directed by Joshua and Benjamin Safdie, Sephardic Jews, and Adam Sandler, who is Jewish, plays Howard Ratner, a Jewish jewelry dealer in the famed NYC diamond district on east 47th street
admin | January 4, 2020
Kenny used fish as bait and I took it, Jose Dominic says, his laugh filling the foyer of AB Salem House, his new 10-room guest house in Kochi. He is describing how he got seduced into a second innings as an entrepreneur, just a year after he stepped away from the leadership of the CGH Earth hotels group, which his father founded in 1954. AB Salem House is a historic building, just down the road from the famous Paradesi Synagogue, in Kochis Mattancherry or Jew Town area
admin | January 4, 2020
Free public menorah lighting ceremonies will be held at various locations in Los Angeles County Sunday to mark the final night of Hanukkah, including in Boyle Heights, once the main center of Jewish life on the West Coast. "Chanukah on the Eastside," will be held from 7-10 p.m
admin | January 4, 2020
Authorities are investigating whether Grafton Thomas, the man charged in a machete attack on Hanukkah celebrants in Monsey, is tied to a recent stabbing near a village synagogue, a law-enforcement official told The Post on Sunday. Details of the incident under investigation were unclear, but a 30-year man was beaten and repeatedly knifed while walking to the Mosdos Meharam Brisk Tashnad religious center in Monsey around 5:30 a.m. on Nov
admin | January 4, 2020
Twitter/ADLThe ADL took these photos of the scene of the Monsey stabbing attack.
admin | January 4, 2020
Please enable Javascript to watch this video WOODBRIDGE-- State lawmakers are looking to increase security at places of worship, this following a recent string of anti-Semitic acts.
admin | January 4, 2020
The No Hate, No Fear rally in New York is being supported by the full range of Jewish organizations. Image: UJA Federation-New York. Ahead of this Sundays solidarity rally in New York City against antisemitism and hate, Jewish organizations and leaders have been actively promoting the event on social media
admin | January 4, 2020
WASHINGTON - At exactly 3:01 p.m., Miguel Barajas poured shots of tequila, lining them up on the bar. The 25-year-old general manager raised a glass to his staff, to the start of the last happy hour of the year at Taqueria del Barrio, a Latin American restaurant in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington. "Let's hope there's no phone calls," Barajas said.
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