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Holocaust Museum Rising in Thessaloniki, Marking Lost Jewish Legacy
04 Nov 2024 14:06 GMT
… – and decimated the Jewish population of Thessaloniki, where … targeted Thessaloniki for its Jewish population, rounding up people … Most were Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews who had settled in … Antoniou, Assistant Professor of Jewish studies at the Aristotle …
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Greeks Jews and World War II
04 Nov 2024 05:02 GMT
… overwhelming majority of the Jewish Community based in Thessaloniki, … Crete, and Rhodes.
The Sephardic Jews of Thessaloniki were less assimilated … , that the local Jewish Community first enjoyed complete … the leadership of the Jewish Community – especially in …
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This week in Jewish history: Balfour Declaration and battle of Sharm el-Sheikh
03 Nov 2024 16:05 GMT
… tranquil dwellings”), the first Jewish neighborhood outside of the …
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel and … values among millions of Sephardi Jews in Israel and abroad. … mission to rescue European Jews, was executed in Budapest …
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'The most famous Jew in the world': Life, times, legacy of Moses Montefiore
03 Nov 2024 15:32 GMT
… British baronet and religious Jew Moses Haim Montefiore, whose … up as an observant Jew and knew Hebrew.
Montefiore … Moses.’”
Global advocate
Wherever Jews were oppressed, he traveled … unification of the Jewish people through mixed Sephardi-Ashkenzai couples …
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Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessaloniki’s Holocaust museum is finally set to open
03 Nov 2024 05:10 GMT
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Most were Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews who had settled in … including the 39 other Jewish communities that, prewar, were … Thessaloniki and highlighting its Jewish and Ottoman Muslim heritage. … Antoniou, assistant professor of Jewish studies at the Aristotle …
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OY VEY, TRUMP FAKAKTA MESHUGGAH JEWISH TV COMMERCIAL!
02 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT
… television commercials which stereotype Jewish American Trump voters. Now … show the average American Jew who is highly educated, … are Black Jews, Sephardic Jews and Middle Eastern Jews who tend towards … #47;Gender Issues in Judaism, and the Intersection of …
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Rabbi Kalman Ber elected as Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi
31 Oct 2024 22:38 GMT
… — the one designated for the Sephardi chief rabbi election. The polls opened … serve alongside him as the Sephardi chief rabbi, congratulated him after the … in brotherhood and friendship,” The Sephardi chief rabbi added.
“This will sanctify …
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Rabbi Tamir Granot’s Call to Defend and Unite
31 Oct 2024 19:53 GMT
… Jewish people.
Delivered at a time when Israel faces increased threats, Rabbi … both Lithuanian and Chassidic, Sephardi and Ashkenazi… I do … this address, Rabbi Granot calls upon every Jew to honor … but to the entire Jewish community, encouraging everyone to …
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Ultra-Orthodox-backed Kalman Ber chosen as Ashkenazi chief rabbi in runoff
31 Oct 2024 19:51 GMT
… of United Torah Judaism.
Ber will serve alongside Rabbi David Yosef, elected … Rabbinate Council meeting with his Sephardic counterpart Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and David … Democracy Institute of over 600 Jewish respondents conducted in June found …
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Kalman Ber to be Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi
31 Oct 2024 17:04 GMT
… Zionism Party and Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party.
The … minister of Jerusalem affairs and Jewish heritage, said in a … his brother as the Jewish state’s Sephardic chief rabbi. Yosef, 67, … leader after serving as Sephardic chief rabbi for 11 years, won …