admin | October 11, 2021
Even before the two of us set off on our latest trip to Poland, we discussed how we would portray our visit in our Travel Edition of The Jerusalem Post Podcast. Our biweekly show is usually fun-filled, so the thought of portraying Jewish history both glorious and tragic in our broadcast was somewhat daunting. Our destination: southeastern Poland, close to the borders with Slovakia and Ukraine.
admin | October 2, 2021
Pablo Casado, leader of the conservative Popular Party of Spain, has participated this Friday in the fifth day of the traveling convention of his training accompanied by former Mexican president Felipe Caldern (2006-2012). The meeting takes place in full controversy after the apologies offered by Pope Francis for the excesses committed by the Church in the Conquest of America and the crossing of statements that it caused between popular politicians and the Government of the President of Mexico, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador. In this sense, Casado has refused to apologize for the Spanish Conquest, as requested by the current Mexican president
admin | September 30, 2021
In one of the scenes from my book, The Poetry of Secrets, Isabel, the main character is served fritada espinaca, or spinach frittata, at a Shabbat dinner, her first one since she has been captured by the Spanish Inquisition. My choice of that food was deliberate
admin | September 27, 2021
Seven centuries after it was created, a priceless Sephardic Jewish book whose wine-stained pages have somehow survived exile, the Inquisition, the rise and fall of an empire, two world wars and the Bosnian conflict, is making a homecoming. Of sorts.
admin | September 27, 2021
My son Ariel called me from Jerusalem this week. He told me that he and his wife Rachel had booked a Sukkot meal at the Sephardic House Hotel
admin | September 27, 2021
Good hummus doesnt need many ingredients: chickpeas, fresh lemon juice, tahini, some garlic and salt. But that doesnt mean its easy to make
admin | September 27, 2021
A veteran of numerous albums, University of Rhode Island classical guitarist Adam Levin had never seen one of his recordings reach the Billboard charts. Now, in the span of 10 weeks, hes done it twice landing the top spot with two different albums. In June, Music From the Promised Land, his debut album with the mandolin and guitar chamber group Duo Mantar, reached No
admin | September 22, 2021
(JTA) Before the Spanish Inquisition, the island of Mallorca had a sizeable Jewish community. Every fall, the island became dotted with the leaf-roofed huts that Jews are commanded to erect during the holiday of Sukkot
admin | September 22, 2021
The Netherlands has from this Sunday in Amsterdam with a monument in memory of the Dutch victims of the Holocaust. Designed in the shape of a maze, it has 102,220 bricks bearing the names and dates of birth of an equal number of Jews and members of the Roma community. They have no grave because their bodies were thrown into mass graves, or burned, in concentration camps during World War II.
admin | September 22, 2021
JTA Before the Spanish Inquisition, the island of Mallorca had a sizeable Jewish community.
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