admin | November 4, 2021
MADRID (JTA) Located in the Priorat region of Spain, hidden in the steep hills and lush mountains of the Tarragona province, 100 miles southwest of Barcelona, sits the Celler de Capanes winery. The cooperative winery, founded in 1933, has seen its reputation for high-end vintages grow steadily over the decades
admin | November 4, 2021
The French celebrity journalist and far-right firebrand is roiling the 2022 presidential election campaign, even without announcing his candidacy. Although Zemmour's worldview has typified French reactionary thinking since 1789 and animated the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, the fact that he is a Sephardic Jew is not as odd as it may seem
admin | November 4, 2021
A call for papers via RelCFP: Hello, everyone. Im editing a series with Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington on a line of academic books critically analyzing elements ofJewish science fiction and fantasy(thats the series title).https://rowman.com/action/series/les/lexjsfAs such, Id love some authors with concepts to write about.
admin | November 4, 2021
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) Tuesday is Election Day in New York City, where the Democratic primary can often be more decisive than Election Day itself. Many key races were essentially decided in June, including mayor, comptroller and public advocate. However, there are still races to know about, including a few close City Council races.
admin | November 4, 2021
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admin | November 4, 2021
We need to look ahead; we need to build something new; we need to build something better, he said to a receptive audience, recounting a previous conversation with a pastor concerned about New Yorks post-pandemic future. The better question is, when will we reach our greater glory
admin | November 4, 2021
A Jewish dating website has launched in the UAE to pair up single people looking to make the emirates their long-term home.
admin | October 18, 2021
After Spain announced it would offer of citizenship to families of Jews it expelled more than 500 years ago, Mark Tafoya, a personal chef living in New York City, filled out an application. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tafoya calls himself a proud Sephardic Jew rediscovering my roots.
admin | October 18, 2021
This story contains spoilers about Episode 4 in Season 9 of Netflixs The Great British Baking Show. (JTA) Jrgen Krauss, the basically a Jewish dad on the latest season of The Great British Baking Show, lived up to his reputation during Desserts Week when he produced a Passover-inspired pavlova complete with a traditional charoset topping. The dessert also sustains a different tradition: the internationally popular shows habit of not getting Jewish content quite right, when host Noel Fielding badly mispronounces charoset while describing Krauss creation
admin | October 11, 2021
MADRID (JTA) In an unprecedented effort to find their relatives and raise awareness about their stories, Spanish authorities are releasing a list of the Hungarian Jews protected from the Nazis by a diplomat nicknamed the Spanish Schindler. ngel Sanz Briz was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial and museum, in 1966 for using an ingenious legal maneuver to save more than 5,200 Jews from being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. But even though his efforts saved five times as many Jews as those of Oskar Schindler, his story is far less well known in part because the staunchly anti-Israel Franco regime, which ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975, barred him from accepting Yad Vashems honor.
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