admin | December 29, 2019
Food coverageis supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. For many people, the point of foreign travel is to expand horizons and see things in a new way. Thats how it was for Daniel Azarkman on a 2006 trip to Spain, when his horizons expanded specifically around the countrys cuisine
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admin | December 29, 2019
On December 14, 2019, a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, vandalizing the sanctuary.
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admin | December 13, 2019
The tricky politics of world historiography is what it is because of the concern todays world shares for identity and natural rights.
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admin | December 13, 2019
LONDON (JTA) Linzi Pinto surveys a familiar urban landscape through her car windshield as she runs errands in north London. Very little has changed in her native city in her lifetime. But on the eve of a fateful and close general election, Pinto feels like a foreigner here
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admin | December 7, 2019
Shelley Morrison, best known for her role as maid Rosario Salazar in the US comedy Will and Grace, has died at the age of 83 from heart failure following a short illness. Born to Sephardic Jewish parents who emigrated to the US from Spain, Morrison appeared in 68 episodes of the pioneering LGBT comedy between 1999 and 2006
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admin | December 7, 2019
When Michael Benarrochs parents immigrated to Canada from Morocco in the early 1960s, no one in the family had ever earned a university degree. Now, Benarroch is preparing to take on his new role as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manitoba
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admin | December 7, 2019
Comedian, movie star and film mogul Adam Sandler gave a rare interview to The New York Times Magazine on Sunday, and in many ways it is a close examination of Sandlers Jewishness. As its author, Jamie Lauren Kelles, explained, I grew up as a Jew in a not-very-Jewish place, and Sandlers work meant a lot to me. * Sandler is a member of Hillcrest Country Club, the oldest Jewish country club in Los Angeles, a place where self-proclaimed Jewish big shots could unwind in semiassimilated fashion.
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admin | December 7, 2019
(JNS)-It was the year 2000, at the beginning of the Second Intifada, and Arab terror attacks were being carried out against Israelis on a nearly daily basis throughout the country, and particularly on the roads in Judea and Samaria. After one particular deadly attack, former Sephardic chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu approached one of his aides, Arie Levy, who had been a volunteer medic and ambulance driver with Magen David Adom (MDA) for about six years, asking why no emergency response organization existed in Judea and Samaria in order to react in a timely manner to save lives. Levy, now 53, who arrived in Israel as an immigrant from France with his family as a child, agreed with his protg that something had to be done.
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admin | December 7, 2019
Boxing has long been a British obsession, exported successfully to North America, but never widespread on the Continent. Mainland Europeans struggled to understand that in general there was no quarrel between contestants who assaulted each other so brutally.
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admin | December 7, 2019
I write in my capacities as President of SHAI, Sephardic Heritage Alliance, Inc., Trustee of the Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education, and longtime resident of this community to share wonderful tidings with your readers this holiday season. Your readers will surely be gladdened to know that the recent SHAI Childrens Coat and Clothing Drive surpassed anyones wildest expectations due to the overwhelming goodwill and generosity of hundreds of people of goodwill right here in our community. As previously reported in your paper, the Great Neck Public Schools launched a clothing pantry to benefit students in need last year.
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