admin | January 8, 2020
The Atlanta Jewish Life Festival, the citys largest single-day celebration of Jewish culture and community, is back for its second year. The event will return to the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta Jan. 26 from 10 a.m.
admin | January 8, 2020
(RNS) Serious FOMO. That's "fear of missing out." I missed out on therallySunday (Jan. 5) in New York against anti-Semitism.
admin | January 6, 2020
Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner in Uncut Gems (Courtesy of A24 Films) Youve seen Chanukah-time Adam Sandler before, but never like this. Actually, though the latest from the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, opened nationally on Christmas Eve, and square in the middle of 2019s Chanukah, the Jewish holiday that Uncut Gems loosely revolves around is Passover. Sandlers character, Howard Ratner, is an inveterate gambler who owns a jewelry store in Manhattans Diamond District
admin | January 6, 2020
Classical music and opera events happening in and around Toronto for the week of Jan 6 12.Critics Picks (Jan. 6 12) Ludwig van Torontos weekly Critics Picks are a curated list of some of the best concerts happening now through the end of the week
admin | January 5, 2020
Istanbul (AFP) 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. "Surely, very few
admin | January 5, 2020
Youve seen Chanukah-time Adam Sandler before but never like this.
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
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