July 14, 2009

SWC Members Day at the New York Tolerance Center


THE NEW YORK TOLERANCE CENTER WILL OPEN TO SWC MEMBERS ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2009 FOR GUIDED TOURS

July 15, 2009
 
 To honor the memory of Jews deported or murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto,
the NYTC will be open to SWC members on:
 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 for guided tours.

This date marks the anniversary of the first deportations and murders in the Warsaw Ghetto.

—The tours will begin at 10:00am, 1:00pm & 4:00pm on a reservation-only basis.—
 
Modeled after the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the NYTC  is the East Coasts' first state-of-the-art interactive training and educational facility that focuses on exploring the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America, international human rights and the history of the Holocaust.

Those who come to the New York Tolerance Center will have an opportunity to experience the following exhibitions:

•The Power of Words exhibit features a film that demonstrates how modern-day figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Franklin Roosevelt used their words to instill hope while others like Hitler, Stalin, Osama Bin Laden and other religious extremists used that same power to spread lies and incite hatred.


•The Globalhate.com exhibit features touch-screen computer terminals that expose the dangerous proliferation of hate on the Internet. This exhibit is based on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s ongoing investigation of hate on the Internet and introduces questions for critical thinking in a media saturated society.
•The Hall of Memory offers a multimedia theater that presents a thought-provoking film on the Nazi Holocaust featuring survivors’ personal testimony. A memorial wall portrays the stories of the ‘Righteous Among Nations,’ those who acted to save the lives of others at their own personal risk. Participants take the opportunity to consider other examples of genocide in the twentieth century and reflect upon the lessons of history for today.
•The Point of View Diner is a modern cyber-café that screens a variety of scenarios portraying situations of escalating conflict in a contemporary American context. Through the use of cutting edge technology, group members have the opportunity to individually ‘interview’ the main characters in the scenario and then register personal opinions on the issues raised. The results of the anonymous vote are instantly tabulated, providing a springboard for dialogue on violence prevention, conflict resolution and personal responsibility.
•The Millennium Machine offers a media presentation that focuses on pressing global human rights issues such as the threat of international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, the exploitation of women and children, and the plight of political refugees. Participants in this immersive theatre experience test their knowledge of the issues via automated response technology and are challenged to discuss solutions together.
NYTC Public Days are partially underwritten by a grant from the David Berg Foundation.

All visits to the NYTC are by
reservation only

Please call 212-697-1180 x105 or
email: groupinfo@tolerancecenter.org

Ticket for members are:
$15 - adults
$10 - students and seniors

Tours take approximately 2 hours and are recommended for adults and students ages 12+
New York Tolerance Center (NYTC)
226 East 42nd Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
New York, NY

Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines & Threats of a Global Pandemic - Part 1

Posted: 2009/07/09
From: Mathaba

This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to know what is behind the global flu pandemic: these are FACTS - pass them on to as many as you can using the buttons at the end of the article to print, Email, or share on social media networks - and stay tuned to Mathaba
 
Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare program since at least the 1940s. In 1941, it began secret developmental efforts using controversial testing methods. During WW II, mustard gas was tested on about 4000 servicemen. Biological weapons research was also conducted. Human subjects were used as guinea pigs in various other experiments, and numerous illegal practices continued to the present, including secretly releasing toxic biological agents in US cities to test the effects of germ warfare.

The Hague Convention of 1907 banned chemical weapons usage, and the 1928 Geneval Protocol prohibited gas and bacteriological warfare. The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) "Prohibit(ed) the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction." The 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act "implement(ed the) Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction...."  continued>>

From the LionHeart Blog...

I received this frightening notice from our friend at Lionheart. Please read it here or go directly to his blog and leave comments and spread the word as widely as you can. The European governments are either blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to militant islam.


14 July 2009

An act of war! An official threat against my life

Update below

2 weeks after being released from an 18 month arrest, I now receive an official warning about threats against my life.

The question is; do you stand with your fellow Englishman and ally, who has had his life threatened by Islamic militants living within Great Britain, or do you ignore the reality of what that means?

Today it is me - Tomorrow it is you!

... Unless you are one of those people who closes their frontdoor at night, shuts the curtains, switches the TV on and then ignores what is going on in the real world outside, and what is happening to the future of way of life of our country?

Bedfordshire police have now officially warned me that there is a threat against my life. The police, through fear of upsetting 'community cohesion' would not divulge where the threat has come from, only that my actions through this blog and the street protests have upset certain sections of our society who, now want to harm me.

No guessing which 'section of society' that is then!

Video: The Calling

I wonder whether the Daily Mail article linking me to the fire-bombing of the Mosque in Luton, which I had absolutely nothing to do with, had anything to do with this threat against me.

Is it any way to live in our own country; being threatened by invading militant Moslems who want to take our country over?

Is that not an act of war against the British people?

What is a 'common man' to do to protect himself from this violent aggression, that is aimed at him from a religious guerilla army that is against the 'Crown' of which he is subject and subservient to?

War is War whichever way you want to dress it up, but we cannot even defend ourselves, because the State has neutralised us, and made us weak and vulnerable in the face of those who want to die killing us, because they believe they are rewarded in their heaven for their murderous actions.

The police tell me I cannot even carry a weapon to protect myself?

What hope for us and our future, is there?

Civil War is here, but people are yet to wake up to the reality of that fact. They are currently fed the lies and are supressed from being allowed to speak about the truth they are now experiencing, by being branded racists and neo-nazis if they do.

'Islam and Moslems bring enrichment to our society' they tell you, and those who disagree are racists!!!

Yes, they are going to take your country over, implement Sharia law, and subdue the population into a position of dhimmitude. That is the enrichment they bring to your society.

Might not happen today, tomorrow or next week, but what about 30 - 40 - 50 years from now?

Those who stand with me sit at the foot of the throne, Earthly and Heavenly, as the new Crusade to defend Christendom from Jihad unfolds upon our world.

The future of these Isles, and its inhabitants are reliant on the people of this generation. The future is either going to be an Islamic one or Chistian one, and there is no middle ground because Islam is on a religious mandate to stamp out the light of Christianity upon these shores, and if it achieves that aim, darkness and Islamic suppression will cover the land where your future descendents reside.

Video: Lebanon, once a Christian majority

Look at the facts, and what Moslems have planned for these Isles.

(Click image to see official Osman warning from Beds police)

Comment taken from comments section

Thank you Anonymous for leaving this comment

The islamic boards are starting to become aware of the protests and
One poster on http://www.islamicboard.com/world-affairs/134284663-anti-islam-anti-muslim-protests-birmingham-2.html

states the following;


Re: Anti-Islam Anti-Muslim Protests in Birmingham - 5 Hours Ago
----------

''there are millions of Muslims in the west, we could easily set up a well orginized Muslim group of up to 25 thousand to 30 thousand members who's only goal is to defend the Muslim community in the west from neo-nazis and islamophobic people, we could have them guarding mosques, certain homes, etc etc. no doubt this will happen in the future''


Pretty scary stuff, watch your backs Lionheart and all those brave patriots who stand against this satanic bunch of religious nuts.
Fight the good fight !

9 comments:

Anonymous said...
To let them know of your whereabouts at all times would be foolhardy indeed.
Aimée Kligman, née Dassa said...
I am reading a horrifying book at the moment called "As Europe Slept". It is about the policy of appeasement in Europe toward Islam and its Muslim population. They expect that by 2050, Europe will become Eurabia. Wake the fuck up! Aimee Kligman
Anonymous said...
The islamic boards are starting to become aware of the protests and One poster on http://www.islamicboard.com/world-affairs/134284663-anti-islam-anti-muslim-protests-birmingham-2.html states the following; Re: Anti-Islam Anti-Muslim Protests in Birmingham - 5 Hours Ago ---------- ''there are millions of Muslims in the west, we could easily set up a well orginized Muslim group of up to 25 thousand to 30 thousand members who's only goal is to defend the Muslim community in the west from neo-nazis and islamophobic people, we could have them guarding mosques, certain homes, etc etc. no doubt this will happen in the future'' Pretty scary stuff, watch your backs Lionheart and all those brave patriots who stand against this satanic bunch of religious nuts. Fight the good fight !
Cioara Andrei said...
Foarte interesant subiectul prezentat de tine.M-am uitat pe blogul tau si imi place tare mult Sigur am sa mai revin. O zi buna!
Anonymous said...
The police spellchecker seems not to be working judging from that letter.
Mr Angry said...
Lionheart, you are always welcome to stay with us, if you can cope with the cats, that is. And the missus. :) Seriously, though, I wouldn't trust the cops as far as I could throw myself.
kris said...
First of all WTF is that thing you signed? "oh, you might be under threat, but you've brought it on yourself"? What "business activities" are they referring to? The exercise of your Article 10 Human Right of Freedom of Expression? Good Lord, will you get a proper solicitor to deal with this.
kris said...
http://www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/v3/pdfstore/policies/D339.pdf jeez, I wonder if Beds Police is going to offer you a panic alarm, body armour etc? I also note the template in the link above is worded a bit more sympathetically than yours.
headhunter said...
come and get me aswell

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Le philosophe égyptien Murad Wahba soutient la normalisation avec Israël et déclare: «la laïcité est une nécessité culturelle»

envoyé par Elie  Mangoubi


Ci-dessous des extraits d'une interview du philosophe égyptien Murad Wahba, diffusé sur la télévision ON le 22 juin 2009.
Interviewer: Croyez-vous encore au dialogue ?
Murad Wahba: Oui, et je vais vous dire pourquoi. D'abord, il n'y a pas de précédent à une guerre sans fin dans l'histoire de l'humanité. C'est pourquoi il faut mettre un terme à la guerre et amorcer la paix. La paix ne peut venir qu'avec des concessions, et les négociations nécessitent des concessions. En d'autres termes, si vous vous embarquez dans des négociations en croyant détenir la vérité absolue, ces négociations sont condamnées à échouer. Les concessions entraînent un changement de mentalité: au lieu de penser en termes d'absolu, vous devez penser en termes relatifs, afin d'arriver à la paix. Tant qu'il y aura des gens qui croiront détenir la vérité absolue – les fondamentalistes dans les camps juif et palestinien –, nous demeurerons en état de guerre. En tant qu'intellectuel, il est de mon devoir de m'efforcer de changer cette mentalité, afin d'entamer le processus de paix. C'est pourquoi je ne renonce à la paix. Y renoncer serait aller à contre courant de l'histoire de l'humanité.
(…)
Nous avons signé un accord de paix avec Israël. Dans cet accord de paix se trouve un article qui oblige les deux côtés à normaliser leurs relations dans les domaines économique, politique et culturel. Respecter cet accord de paix consiste à œuvrer pour la normalisation culturelle.
(…)
Les intellectuels qui se leurrent en croyant qu'il est possible de refuser la normalisation culturelle, vont à l'encontre de l'accord de paix. Deuxièmement, aujourd'hui, avec la globalisation, qui signifie la mort de la distance, aussi bien en termes de temps que d'espace, on ne peut demeurer culturellement isolé. En outre, les cultures s'enchevêtrent, que cela nous plaise ou pas. Certains disent que les Juifs s'isolent. Ce n'est pas vrai. La révolution scientifique et technologique – et c'est un point très important – a commencé au début du 20ème siècle. C'est l'époque où ont été publiées les premières études de physique nucléaire. Cela a mené à la bombe atomique, à l'utilisation de l'énergie atomique à des fins aussi bien pacifiques que guerrières. Qu'est-il arrivé à ceux qui ont mené la révolution scientifique et technologique au début du 20ème siècle ? Ils n'étaient que dix à douze, juifs pour la plupart, à mener ces recherches. Au point que la physique nucléaire a été appelée «physique juive». En 1933, Hitler a expulsé ces gens d'Allemagne, et ils sont partis pour les Etats-Unis, qui les ont accueillis. C'set ainsi que les Etats-Unis ont accueilli la révolution scientifique et technologique dans le domaine de la physique nucléaire.   lire la suite>>

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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
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Beginning today, we're bringing you two wonderful shorts from SFJFF's award-winning teen filmmaking program, the 
New Jewish Filmmaking Project, produced by Citizen Film. Watch NOT ANOTHER JEWISH MOVIE, featuring a quirky chorus of Bay Area teenagers who grapple with ambivalent feelings about being Jewish, and FOUR SHORT FILMS ABOUT LOVE, which looks beneath the surface of ordinary interactions to explore what draws us toward and pushes us away from the people we love.

Watch a video of an interview with co-director Sophia Teper, who explains the impact of the NJFP and her relationships with her grandparents years after making FOUR SHORT FILMS ABOUT LOVE.

Watch Festival shorts from the comfort of your home or office (we won't tell your boss), with a new short film at sfjff.org every month! Now showing 29th Festival shorts WITH A LITTLE PATIENCE and ESCAPISM

July 13, 2009

The Place of Women on the Court

In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to Barack Obama’s first address to Congress. Given the circumstances, it wasn’t an event anyone expected her to attend. She went, she said, because she wanted the country to see that there was a woman on the Supreme Court.
Now another woman, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, is about to begin the confirmation hearings that stand between her and a seat near Ginsburg on the high bench. After 16 years on the court — the last three, since the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, as the only woman working alongside eight men — Ginsburg has a unique perspective on what’s at stake in Sotomayor’s nomination. I sat down with the 76-year-old justice last week to talk about women on the bench and their effect on the dynamics and decisions of the court. more>>

July 12, 2009

Meurtre d'Ilan Halimi - Les associations exigent un nouveau procès

Samy Mouhoubi, le lundi 13 juillet 2009 à 04:00


Au lendemain des condamnations prononcées à l’encontre de Youssouf Fofana et de ses affidés, les protestations sont vigoureuses. La garde des Sceaux et le parquet sont quasi sommés de faire appel.
C’est d’abord la famille de la victime qui s’estimait dimanche flouée par un verdict rendu après deux jours et demi de délibérations qu’elle considère trop clément. Si elle est satisfaite de la peine maximale prononcée à l’encontre de Youssouf Fofana – perpétuité assortie de 22 ans de sûreté –, elle ne digère pas celles infligées aux 26 autres coaccusés.

Furieux, Me Francis Szpiner, l’avocat de la famille Halimi, en a aussitôt appelé à Michèle Alliot-Marie, la ministre de la Justice, exigeant sur-le-champ un nouveau procès. Pour lui, certains des principaux complices ont écopé de peines trop douces. Parmi eux : la jeune fille ayant servi d’appât pour le rapt du jeune Ilan, condamnée à neuf ans ferme. « Je regrette que la cour ait fait preuve d’une particulière indulgence pour ceux qui ont aidé ou assisté Youssouf Fofana », s’est emporté le conseil de la famille d’Ilan Halimi. lire la suite>>

Snapshots of Sephardic culture

De Leon, an Indie rock band shown in a live performance, features music with 15th century Spanish influences. (Jori Klein)
 
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- There are dozens of ways to enjoy modern Sephardic culture, art that draws upon traditions from regions such as Spain, Portugal, the Middle East, North Africa, the Far East, Italy, Rome and Greece. The culture includes music, literature, history, cooking, art and theater. Here are just some samples.

LISTEN
De Leon
Indie rock band with 15th century Spanish influences infused with cadences of the ancient Sephardic tradition.
http://jdubrecords.org/artists.php?id=22

Pharoah's Daughter
Jewish folk group infuses an eclectic instrumental blend of traditional Judaic tunes with Arabic rhythm and African beats in "Haran," an infectiously beautiful album full of haunting joy.
http://www.pharaohsdaughter.com/bio.html

Vanessa Paloma
Singer, performer, scholar and writer specializing in Sephardic women's songs and their connection to women's spiritual expression.
http://vanessapaloma.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM1qeR-NV30

READ
“Cry of The Peacock," by Gina Nahai (Crown, 1991)
The Iranian Jewish author's first novel (she's writing her fifth) charts seven generations of a Jewish family beginning in 18th-century Persia to modern-day Iran.

“The Rabbi's Cat” and “The Rabbi's Cat 2,” by Joann Sfar (Pantheon Books, 2005, 2008)
A funny and wiry graphic novel about an Algerian rabbi in the 1930s whose cat sometimes speaks but always narrates these tales that investigate Jewish, Arab and French culture.

“Dropped From Heaven,” by Sophie Judah (Schocken, 2007)
A collection of moving stories about the everyday life of a fictional community of Indian Jews (Bene Israel) as its ancient culture confronts the modern world.

“The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World,” by Lucette Lagnado (Harper Perennial: Reprint edition, 2008)
Lagnado's memoir of her father and her family's life in cosmopolitan Cairo and their painful relocation to poverty in America.

“The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature,” edited by Ilan Stavans (Shocken, 2005)
This anthology of fiction, memoirs, essays and poetry from 28 writers spans more than 150 years and offers a collective portrait of the “other Jews,” Sephardim who long for their lost ancestral home even as they create a vibrant, multifaceted literary tradition in exile.

“Sephardic Jews in Amercia: A Diasporic History,” by Aviva Ben Ur (New York University Press, 2009)
Vanessa Paloma, a singer and scholar, is now living in Morocco, where she can find out more about her past. (Peter Svarzbein)

WATCH
New York Separdic Jewish Film Festival
The 14th annual festival opens Feb. 4.
http://www.americansephardifederation.org

“SYNFELD,” a Syrian spoof of the popular "Seinfeld" sitcom.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1223270079651430278

“The Hebrew Mamita”
Actress/poet/playwright/native New Yorker Vanessa Hidary
http://www.hebrewmamita.com
Original 2003 Def Jam Poetry Slam video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubdGjzzJiVs
COOK
"Fistful of Lentils: Syrian-Jewish Recipes from Grandma Fritzie's Kitchen,"
by Jennifer Felicia Abadi (Harvard Common Press, 2007)
Part memoir, part cookbook, Abadi tells stories and recipes from her Syrian grandmother's kitchen. 

“Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews,”
by Poopa Dweck, Michael J. Cohen and Quentin Bacon, (Ecco, 2007)
Now considered the Syrian cooks' bible, "Aromas of Aleppo" presents more than 180 Syrian Jewish recipes.  

“Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon,” by Claudia Roden (Knopf, 2006)
The authority on Middle Eastern and North African food offers 150 recipes from three countries. 

“Mama Nazima's Jewish Iraqi Cuisine,”
by Rivka Goldman  (Hippocrene Books, 2006)
A cookbook-memoir with 100 family recipes with Mongolian, Turkish and Indian influences.

A notícia que o resto do mundo não viu 2

This must be seen and heard. You do not need to read the Portuguese subtitles for the English portion.


Viviane's Corner



Video clandestin sortie d`Iran: Ce document vidéo est tout à fait extraordinaire. Filmé à l’insu de ses acteurs, sorti clandestinement d’Iran, il représente Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, à Qom, en compagnie de son mentor, l’Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, ainsi que d’un cénacle d’élèves et de fidèles. La vidéo est sortie d’Iran via internet. Elle daterait du 13 juin 2009 soit le lendemain de la victoire supposée de Mahmoud Ahmadinéjad (datation que tendraient à corroborer tant les remerciements réitérés que le programme annoncé « d’islamisation radicale » ). On ignore qui a capturé ces images, puis a choisi de les diffuser, mais il s’agit, à l’évidence, de personnes issues de ce cénacle même (peut-être un téléphone portable ?). C’est une réunion privée, et en petit comité, dont le contenu ne s’adressait visiblement pas à la foule, mais à des initiés auxquels on s’adresse, parfois, en langage codé. On va y voir le « Président non élu » remercier son mentor et ses invités pour leur soutien et les services rendus (lesquels ?). Il leur assure, que grâce à leur aide, la « grande victoire » (laquelle ?) est proche. Le tout sur un ton et dans une terminologie dont la teneur messianique est particulièrement accusée. Voyez.
Fariba Hachtroudi et Bernard-Henri Lévy



From sheep dairies to shops: A Bedouin woman who wants to start a sheep dairy has just received the 1,000th small-business loan granted by SAWA, a unique microfinance program in Israel.
 Through SAWA women in Israel's Bedouin community can set up small businesses.

Chagit Rubinstein, a native Israeli, created SAWA ("together" in Arabic) modeled on Grameen Bank, which provides collateral-free group loans to rural Bangladeshis. "I had a dream to create microfinance for the poorest populations in Israel," Rubinstein tells ISRAEL21c.

Born on a kibbutz, the Fulbright Scholar earned her MBA in France, worked in export companies in Israel, and then studied microfinance at American University in Washington, DC. more>>

PA Chief Abbas: We Left Galilee on Our Own: Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas says the Arabs of the Galilee city of Tzfat left in 1948 not because they were driven out, but on their own volition.
Many biographies of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas imply that his family became “refugees” because of the War of Independence in 1948. For instance, a BBC profile on Abbas when he succeeded Yasser Arafat as PLO chairman in 2005 writes, “In the light of his origins in Safed in Galilee - in what is now northern Israel - he is said to hold strong views about the right of return of Palestinian refugees.” Answers.com states, “As a result of the Arab-Israel War of 1948, he became a refugee.” Wikipedia articles on the topic say the same – all giving the impression that the Abbas family was driven out and became homeless. more>>

Rabbinate Confronted With 60 Missionary Converts: The Chief Rabbinate has been given a list of more than 60 recent converts to Judaism who continue to believe in Jesus – and are active missionaries.

Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz, chairman and founder of the anti-missionary and anti-assimilation Yad L’Achim organization, met in recent days with Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and provided him with the list. Rabbi Amar was reportedly “shocked” at seeing that the Chief Rabbinate had authorized the conversions.

An immediate solution was found for the future, however. Rabbi Lifshitz presented Rabbi Amar with a list of 17 questions that should be asked of any prospective convert. Under the assumption that the missionaries will either not lie straight out, or that the specific questions will help detect the lies, it is hoped that missionaries will be spotted and weeded out from the conversion rolls. more>>

Second Temple Stone Quarry Discovered: Archaeologists have discovered a quarter-acre (one dunam) quarry in Jerusalem that apparently was the source for mammoth stones used by Herod to build the Second Temple. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) discovered the quarry prior to the planned construction of apartment buildings on Shmuel HaNavi Street.

Workers at the ancient quarry in Jerusalem.
Photo: Assaf Peretz, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority

The ancient quarry dates back 2,030 years, according to excavation director Dr. Ofer Sion. The immense size of the stones, which measure up to three meters long and two meters high and wide, “indicates it was highly likely that the large stones that were quarried at the site were destined for use in the construction of Herod’s magnificent projects in Jerusalem, including the Temple walls,” he said. more>>

Yemeni Jewish woman reportedly abducted: A newly married Jewish Yemeni woman reportedly was kidnapped.

News Yemen, quoting unnamed sources in the Yemeni Jewish community, said in an article published Wednesday that the woman was kidnapped Tuesday from her husband's home in Tourist City in the capital Sana'a after their recent wedding, which was attended by several Yemeni government officials.

The Jewish sources also told News Yemen that Lia Saed Hamdi was kidnapped because she refused to marry her kidnapper, a Muslim man from a local tribe. They said he stole her jewelry and money of her husband's. more>>

L'Egypte, destination vacances pour petites filles à exciser: « Que se passe-t-il en Europe ? Pourquoi ces familles installées depuis des années hors d'Egypte renvoient encore leurs filles pour se faire mutiler ici ? » Telle est la question du docteur Ismail Ayman qui opère à Assiout en Haute-Egypte, à propos de l'efficacité en Europe des campagnes de sensibilisation contre l'excision.


Travaillant depuis plus de vingt ans dans le développement, ce responsable de programme pour l'organisation humanitaire Plan international, expert en campagnes anti-excision, rappelle que, dans son pays, il a fallu un constant réajustement des stratégies de coopération entre ONG et gouvernement pour faire évoluer les mentalités. Ainsi qu'un travail soutenu avec les communautés locales et des ressources médiatiques considérables. Pourtant, 50% des petites Egyptiennes ont encore leurs organes génitaux externes arbitrairement mutilés avant l'âge de 12 ans.


Eduquer la population reste la clé du changement. « La question de l'excision est à l'ordre du jour du gouvernement depuis presqu'un siècle, » affirme Ayman en savoir plus>>


Ancient Israeli Myths Deter Peace: The rationale for formally designating Israel a Jewish state "" as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now demands "" rests on three religious-political pillars: God's purported covenant with Moses instructing the ancient Israelites to conquer the land, the injustice of the Roman-era Diaspora that supposedly removed them centuries later, and the brutal persecution of European Jews in the Holocaust.


Yet, two of these pillars "" Moses conveying God's covenant to the Israelites and the Roman Diaspora "" appear based on almost no historical reality, the stuff of legend and possibly even lies that crumble under any serious scrutiny.


Normally, such ancient stories might be regarded as harmless tales that some people treasure as part of their Judeo-Christian faiths, except that Netanyahu's new demand means that these myths now threaten peace in the Middle East and conceivably could push the modern world into more bloody warfare. more>>

Conflict-Worn Palestinians Carve out Niches of Joy: Middle-class matrons shop for imported furniture in a marble-and-glass emporium. A new movie house is screening "Transformers." Teens bop to a Danish hip-hop band performing on their high school basketball court. 
Life in the West Bank — in sharp contrast to beaten down, Hamas-ruled Gaza — has taken on a semblance of normalcy.


In this photo taken on Saturday, July 4, 2009, Palestinian customers are seen at the Herbawi home furnishings in the West Bank city of Jenin. Middle-class matrons shop for imported furniture in a marble-and-glass emporium. "Transformers" is playing in a new movie house. Teens bop to a Danish hip-hop band performing on their high school basketball court. Life in the West Bank _ in sharp contrast to beaten down, Hamas-ruled Gaza _ has taken on a semblance of normalcy. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas) Collapse


Exhausted after more than two decades of on-and-off conflict with Israel and deeply skeptical about prospects of statehood, Palestinians here are increasingly trying to carve out their own little niches of happiness.  "We need to enjoy our life despite all the difficulties," said housewife Nadia Aweida, in her 50s, after taking in a dance show in the town of Ramallah. more>>

Stopping settlements = "Ethnic Cleansing"? No way.

sent by J Street



Stopping settlements = "Ethnic Cleansing"?
No way.
Aimee --

Opponents of President Obama's call to end Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank have hit a new low,
equating stopping settlements with "ethnic cleansing."

The Israel Project, a right-wing media advocacy group, was caught red-handed this week privately distributing outrageous, fear-mongering pro-settlement talking points to its activists in a blatant attempt to undermine the President's Middle East agenda.

Their so-called advice? First, if you get a question about settlements, change the subject. If pressed,
say stopping settlements is "a kind of ethnic cleansing."

Unbelievable. As someone who cares about Israel's future, I know that stopping settlements - as well as Palestinian incitement and violence - are first steps towards a secure, Jewish, and democratic Israel through a two-state solution. Using terms like "ethnic cleansing" to undermine that agenda is incendiary and dangerous - and, I believe, not pro-Israel.

Click here to demand that The Israel Project's Executive Director Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi remove any pro-settlement, fear-mongering talking points from her organization's materials.

The Israel Project's talking points even admit that the public, including pro-Israel Americans, aren't on their side. They say that "public opinion is hostile to the settlements - even among supporters of Israel." You bet we're hostile to settlements - they're bad for Israel!

As Doug Bloomfield, a columnist for the
New Jersey Jewish News, wrote this week:
[The Israel Project] says the "best argument" for settlements is this: Since Arab citizens of Israel "enjoy equal rights," telling Jews they can't live in the Palestinian state "is a racist idea."
Even though that's completely false, as Bloomfield continues:
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said this week that Jews would be welcome to live in the Palestinian state and enjoy the same rights Israeli Arabs enjoy in Israel.
Israeli settlers that don't want to remain behind would be repatriated into a Jewish, democratic Israel as part of a political solution that would finally provide Israel with real peace and security.

That's why we've got to speak up against The Israel Project's propaganda - it's not only wrong, but it's endangering Israel's future as a Jewish, democratic homeland. Big, well-funded organizations like The Israel Project cannot be allowed to sow confusion and fear about how settlements hurt both Israel and the chances for a two-state solution.

Click here to send a message to The Israel Project's Executive Director demanding that she remove these scurrilous talking points from all of her materials.

Thanks for all you do.

- Isaac

Isaac Luria
Campaigns Director
J Street
July 9, 2009

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FACEBOOK et terrorisme

envoyé par Clément Dassa


Les services secrets israéliens : Facebook devient le Big Brother des groupes terroristes
Source : Jerusalem Post

Facebook devient le Big Brother des groupes terroristes. Le Shin Bet, les services secrets israéliens, demande la plus grande précaution sur la plateforme communautaire. Des groupes terroristes chercheraient à obtenir des informations confidentielles de la part des utilisateurs israéliens du site. L’avertissement a été publié lundi dans l’après-midi. Selon les services de sécurité, des terroristes arabes essayent d’obtenir des informations classifiées en échange de sommes d’argent. Certains ont tenté d’organiser des rendre-vous. Une man?uvre qui signifie un risque élevé d’enlèvements. Le Shin Bet cite le cas d’un Israélien qui a été récemment contacté par un citoyen libanais. Ce dernier lui a demandé de divulguer des informations classifiées. D’autres histoires similaires ont été rapportées. Pour contrer cette dérive, les services secrets demandent aux citoyens israéliens d’éviter de publier des informations personnelles sur Facebook telles que des adresses ou des numéros de téléphones portables. Il est recommandé, par ailleurs, de rester vigilants face à des propositions ins olites, en particulier la promesse de faire fortune à l’étranger. Le Shin Bet a ajouté que des groupes terroristes essayaient également de s’introduire dans des forums fréquentés par des soldats d’unités d’élite afin d’obtenir des informations sur les dispositifs de sécurité de leur base militaire. Facebook, une base de données que vous alimentez !!!?

The Queens of Bollywood -When Jewish women were the leading ladies of Indian cinema

sent by Matthew Posner

Sulochana (Ruby Myers) and Zillo in Saubhagya Sundari
CREDIT: Courtesy Neepa Majumdar

Rose Ezra. Ruby Myers. Farhat Ezekiel Nadira. From the earliest years of Bollywood, these and other Jewish actresses garnered starring roles. And while they may have looked somewhat exotic to moviegoers, they came from Baghdadi Jewish families who had been living in India for decades. Reporter Eric Molinsky speaks to film scholars, as well as friends and relatives of these once-beloved but now mostly forgotten stars of Indian cinema, to find out how they became the “go-to girls” for leading female roles in the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond.
Produced by Julie Subrin

Electro Morocco & Kailash Kher @ Celebrate Brooklyn!



29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy


Aug 2 2009 9:00 AM - Aug 7 2009 6:00 PM



Venue:Sheraton Philadelphia Center City Hotel
Philadelphia, PA
Contact:
Organization:International Association for Jewish Genealogical Societies


Come join us in Philadelphia to learn more about Jewish genealogy, enjoy the many historical attractions Philadelphia has to offer, make new friends, see old friends, and maybe even find a relative you didn't know about before.

The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia (JGSGP) are proud to co-sponsor the 2009 conference.



KEYNOTE SPEAKER: We are delighted to announce that the distinguished French priest, author, and humanitarian, Father Patrick Desbois, will be the keynote speaker at the opening session of the 29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Philadelphia, Sunday, August 2, 2009. His speech will be, "The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 million Jews," which is also the title of his recently published book.


Women's Lens introduced Father Desbois in this post on October 6, 2007

July 11, 2009

ليش عم بيقرقط ظافيرو؟

Sent by Marlyse

My arabic is weak, but I was able to determine that this is a spoof of Bocelli's 'Con te partiro'. We need all of you arabic speakers out there to give us these words!


Marriage in Egypt

sent by Chuck Kuhn
In Egypt and across the Middle East, many young people are being forced to put off marriage, the gateway to independence, sexual activity and societal respect. Marriage plays an important financial role for families and the community. Often the only savings families acquire over a lifetime is the money for their children to marry, and handing it over amounts to an intergenerational transfer of wealth. Abeer Adel, 19, and her fiancé, Amgad Muhammad, 21, looked at engagement rings and other jewelry at a shop in Cairo. The two, who are cousins, said they planned to be engaged for four years.
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times

At a mosque in Cairo, Amal Muhammad Hassan, 17, center, signs a marriage contract alongside her fiancé, Yasser Allam, 27, right, with the mazoun, an Islamic marriage official who acquires the signatures, registers documents and performs other tasks related to marriage.
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times
Because officials are concerned about the destabilizing effect of young people being unable to afford marriage, the Egyptian government helps finance mass weddings. A government-aligned charity paid for dozens of couples to wed last fall in Idku, Egypt. Brides lined up to pick their wedding dresses.
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times

"Marriage and forming a family in Arab Muslim countries is a must," said Azza Korayem, a sociologist with the National Center for Social and Criminal Studies. "Those who don't get married, whether they are men or women, become sort of isolated."
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times

The mass weddings, like the one in Idku, are hugely festive, with couples, many in their late 30s and 40s, allowed to invite dozens of family members and friends.
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times
At the Idku ceremony, the couples were ferried to an open-air stadium in 75 cars donated by local people. They were greeted by a standing-room-only, roaring crowd, flashing neon lights, traditional music, the local governor and a television celebrity who served as the master of ceremonies for the event.
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times
Brides and grooms prior to a ceremony at the mass wedding in Idku.
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times
Newlyweds celebrated their marriage as friends and relatives danced on a bridge over the Nile in Cairo.
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times

Sefarad, the Sephardic Newsletter

sent by Yitzchak Kerem

Sefarad, the Sephardic Newsletter
Volume 18 Number 6, Part I (SEA18.6.1)
June 2009

Editor: Yitzchak Kerem, Aristotle University ,
Thessaloniki ,
Greece
Academic Consultant: David Bunis, The Hebrew University ,
Jerusalem, Israel
Founding Technical Coordinator: Avrum Goodblatt
Founding Technical Assistant: Warren Burstein
Sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem ,
Shamash in association with the Boston Hebrew College ,
The Yakar Educational Foundation (London/Jerusalem),
and Sephardic House , New York City.
Please note changes in contact details due to sabbatical in
Los Angeles beginning Aug. 25, 2008:
Yitzchak Kerem,
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Sefarad, the Sephardic Newsletter
c/o Judaic Studies
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lengthy amounts of information and long issues, efforts will
be made in the future to list strictly Sephardic items
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end.
Apologies for late issues due to relocating to Los
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problems in transferring mail from Israel to the USA.
Recently the large sections of Judeo-Spanish
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information in the section of the homepage for Sephardic
genealogies!
Hopefully this databank will serve as a future central
deposit for Sephardic genealogy throughout the world.
Hopefully, in
the future the newsletter can also be read in sections on
the SEA website.
We are currently in the beginning of the eighteenth year
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13. Courses –
14. Announcements – Research query on Jews in Turkey in the
Holocaust (Arnold Reisman).
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18. Articles – ]
19. Eulogies – Singer Jo Amar z"l
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events being announced late. Numerous books have been
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****SEPHARDIC EVENTS IN JULY 2009 & THE FUTURE*********
July 12, 2009
From: American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House
<info@americansephardifederation.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 10:30:32 AM
Subject: Jewish Experiences in Salonika -Seminar on SUNDAY,
JULY 12
Dear Friends,
ASF is delighted to be in partnership with YIVO on this
upcoming seminar.
Please note that an RSVP is required and can be made at:
212-294-6143 or fmohrer@yivo.cjh.org.

UPCOMING SEMINAR
Sponsored by YIVO in partnership with the American Sephardi
Federation

RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES
Uncommon Voices, Everyday Lives: Jewish Experiences in
Salonika through the YIVO Archives
SUNDAY 12 JULY 2009
Meet the faculty at 3PM; Seminar at 3:30PM

Chair: Isaac Benmayor
Introductory Remarks: Steven Bowman
Presenter: Devin Naar

RSVP REQUIRED: 212-294-6143 / fmohrer@yivo.cjh.org

Devin Naar, a doctoral candidate in the department of
History at Stanford University, was Project Historian of the
Salonika Project at YIVO. Under the project, the Records of
the Jewish Community of Salonika housed in the YIVO Archives
were arranged, microfilmed, and digitized, and a finding aid
was completed. The project received support from the Maurice
Amado Foundation and from the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum.

Naar is writing his dissertation on the Jewish Community of
Salonika during the 19th and 20th centuries. He was the
recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece where he
organized a segment of the Salonika archives housed at the
Jewish Museum of Salonika and curated the exhibition "With
Their Own Words: Glimpses of Jewish Life in Thessaloniki
before the Holocaust." He has delivered conference papers or
lectured at numerous locations in New York and New Jersey,
as well as St. Louis, Georgetown, New Haven, Jerusalem,
Moscow, and Paris.

Isaac Benmayor holds a Ph.D. in Modern Greek Linguistics
from Oxford University. Born and raised in Thessaloniki,
Benmayor is a past president of the American Friends of the
Jewish Museum of Greece, and has worked on a number of
publications on the Holocaust in Greece, including The
Holocaust in Salonica: Eyewitness Accounts.

Steven Bowman is Professor of Judaic Studies at the
University of Cincinnati and has written extensively on
Greek Jewry. His books include Jews in Byzantium, 1204-1453,
Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece, The Holocaust in
Salonica: Eyewitness Accounts and The Agony of Greek Jewry
during World War II (in press). Bowman is Editor in Chief of
the "The Sephardi and Greek Holocaust Library."

The Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies is given at YIVO
several times a year by scholars who have done research in
the YIVO Archives and who wish to share their research with
the public. The seminar series is named in honor of the
noted American Jewish scholar and historian Ruth Gay (1922-
2006), and was made possible thanks to a generous gift from
the family of Ruth Gay.

RSVP REQUIRED: 212-294-6143 / fmohrer@yivo.cjh.org

All events take place at the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | 15 West 16th Street
New York | NY | 10011
www.yivo.org
For directions and parking information, click here.

In This Issue
Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies

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July 26-28, 2009
The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
The Sverdlin Institute for Latin American History and Culture
XIV International Research Conference of LAJSA
"Latin American Jewish Experiences through
Plural Lenses"
26-27-28 July 2009
Conference Program
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
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Conference Program
Sunday 26 _
8:30 Registration
09:15 – 10:30 Opening Ceremony
Opening Session
10:30 – 12:00 Panels
12:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break
13:15 – Guided tour of The Diaspora Museum
14:30 – 16:00 Panels
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Panels
18:00 – 18:30 Coffee Break
18:30 – 20:00 Panels
20:15 – 21:30 Cocktail
Monday 27 _
9:00 – 10:30 Panels
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Panels
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – Nora Glickman (Reading): "Popper en el fin del mundo"
14:00 – 15:30 Panels
15"30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Panels
Cultural Activity _
19:30 Tel Aviv Cinematheque
Tuesday 28 _
9:00 – 10:30 Panels
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Panels
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Panels
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Plenary Session
General Assembly
Cultural Activity _
Jaffa City Tour
Tel Aviv City Tour
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
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Sunday 26
Opening Ceremony
Sunday 26, Webb 001, 09:15 – 10:30
Greetings
Tribute to Günter Böhm (z.l.): Prof. Ana María Tapia
¿Is the Jewish Diaspora Unique? Gabi Sheffer
10:30 – 12:00 Panels
Panel 1: "La Shoà y sus efectos en Latinoamérica"
Webb 102, 10:30 – 12:00
Moderator: Efraim Zadoff
"Pasaportes latinoamericanos como documento de protección de
judíos
durante la Shoá"
Efraim Zadoff
"La mesopotamia judeoargentina y el Holocausto"
Fanny Ran
"La Segunda Guerra Mundial en el arte verbal judío argentino
contemporáneo"
Fernando Fischman
"Costa Rica y el pueblo judío durante el Holocausto"
Haim Avni
Panel 2: "Comunidad y Educación Judía en Latinoamérica" I
Webb 103, 10:30 – 12:00
Moderator: Natan Lerner
"Identidad, pertenencia y comunidad judía: los judíos en
Argentina y Brasil
desde la perspectiva de los estudios comunitarios"
Yossi Goldstein
"Educación, diversidad e identidad en grupos minoritarios"
Frida Shwartz
"Multiculturalismo e racialização: paradoxos da
representação dos judeus no
Brasil do século XXI"
Monica Grin
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
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Panel 3: "Victimismo, conflicto y aportaciones de los
escritores judíos en
América Latina"
Webb 104, 10:30 – 12:00
Moderator: Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes
"Carácter pionero, marginalidad y desarraigo en la obra de
Samuel Rawet"
Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes
"Refugiados y Asalto al paraíso de Marcos Aguinis:
apropiaciones y
reapropiaciones del discurso palestino"
Ignacio López-Calvo
"Aportaciones a la cultura mexicana del exilio judío español
del 39"
Roberto Fuertes-Manjón
14:30 – 16:00 Panels
Panel 2: "Comunidad y Educación Judía en Latinoamérica" II
Webb 103, 14:30 – 16:00
Moderator: Natan Lerner
"Educación escolar judía viable al 2015"
León Trahtemberg
"Niños y jóvenes en situación de riesgo en la comunidad
judía Argentina.
Institucionalización-Posibilidad de reinserción social"
Patricia Hanono
"Diálogo intercultural: jóvenes de origen judío y árabe en
Chile"
Abraham Magendzo
Panel 4: "Libros y prensa judía en la Argentina"
Webb 102, 14:30 – 16:00
Moderator: Silvina Schammah-Gesser
"¿Quién dice qué es un "libro judío" en Argentina? El Mes
del Libro Judío de
AMIA y las formas de clasificación cultural, 1947-1980"
Alejandro Dujovne
"La prensa judía de izquierda en Argentina – los periódicos
en ídish hasta
mediados del siglo XX"
Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
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"From Apoliticism to Leftism: Re-Crafting Jewish Argentine
Ethnicity in the
1960s and 1970s"
Beatrice Gurwitz
Panel 5: "Representaciones artísticas judeolatinoamericanas"
I
Webb 104, 14:30 – 16:00
Moderator: Beth Pollack
"¿Dijo 'gay' o 'goy'?: Identidades étnicas y prácticas
sexuales en Esperando al
Mesías de Daniel Burman"
Amy Kaminsky
"Miradas cotidianas hacia un nuevo cine judío argentino"
Luciano Martínez
"As Três Semanas em que os Brasileiros Saíram de Férias"
Shawn Stein
"Rituales judaicos en el cine judeolatinoamericano:
circuncisión, bar-mitzva,
casamiento y entierro"
Nora Glickman
16:30 – 18:00 Panels
Panel 5: "Representaciones artísticas judeolatinoamericanas"
II
Webb 104, 16:30 – 18:00
Moderator: Beth Pollack
"Falafel and Salsa." A Comparison between Israeli Muzika
Mizrahit and Salsa
Music"
Moshe Morad
"Sephardic Latin American Genres: The New Argentine Judeo-
Spanish Tango"
Monique Balbuena
" [Con]Textualization of Tico Memories in Samuel Rovinski"
Beth Pollack
"The Name and the Number-Embroidered onto the Skin"
Mirta Kupferminc
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
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Panel 6: "Inmigraciones judías a Latinoamérica" I
Webb 103, 16:30 – 18:00
Moderator: Margalit Bejarano
"Historiografía e identidad – "polacos" en América Latina"
Margalit Bejarano
"Artistas judeo- alemanes en el exilio sudamericano: entre
patrias, religión e
ideología (1938-1953)"
María Ximena Álvarez
"El comienzo de la organización comunitaria judía en Chile"
Moshe Nes-El
"The Settlement of Monastir Jews in Temuco, Chile"
Yitzchak Kerem
Panel 7: "Expresiones en la literatura" I
Webb 102, 16:30 – 18:00
Moderator: Ester Nora Azubel
"Madres e hijas en la genealogía literaria de las escritoras
judeo-argentinas"
Alicia Ramos González
"Jewish Fables Transformed: Feminine Themes in Ana Maria
Shúa's Retelling
of Rosenberg's Tale of the Golem and Rabbi Liva"
Sumor Sheppard
"O corpo e a memória em dois romances"
Moacir Amancio
"Another Esther: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Biblical Self-
Portrait"
Pamela Kirk Rappaport
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
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18:30 – 20:00 Panels
Panel 8: "Objetos e inmobiliaria como forma de validación
identitaria"
Webb 104, 18:30 – 20:00
Moderator: Rosalie Sitman
"Haciendo Comunidad, Haciendo Ciudad. La inversión
inmobiliaria como
mecanismo de inserción social de los migrantes judíos en
Bogotá, Colombia,
desde 1910 hasta 1970. El caso del centro de la ciudad"
Enrique Martínez Ruiz
"La construcción del 'Once': burguesía inmigrante, lenguajes
arquitectónicos y
élites judías (1920-1930)"
Marcelo Dimentstein
Panel 6: "Inmigraciones judías a Latinoamérica" II
Webb 103, 18:30 – 20:00
Moderator: Margalit Bejarano
"A política imigratória brasileira e o caráter da imigração
dos sefaraditas
egípcios ao Brasil"
Ruth Leftel
"Alfred Hirschberg – o direito à cidadania dos judeus na
Alemanha. Sua
atuação na vida cultural de São Paulo, após a emigração"
Miriam Oelsner
Panel 7: "Expresiones en la literatura" II
Webb 102, 18:30 – 20:00
Moderator: Ester Nora Azubel
"Las Acacias desde Buenos Aires: Rebeca Mactas y la
identidad judía"
James Hussar
"Elementos de identificación para la construcción de una
identidad minoritaria
en la ficción híbrida judío-argentina de la transición
democrática"
Viviana Fridman
"La representación del terror en novelas de José Pablo
Feinmann"
Ester Nora Azubel
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
8
"Margo Glantz: judía errante a domicilo. Relectura de Las
Genealogías"
Juana Lorena Campos
20:15 – 21:30 Cocktail
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
9
Monday 27
9:00 – 10:30 Panels
Panel 9: "Dictaduras latinoamericanas" I
Webb 102, 9:00 -10:30
Moderator: Daniel Fainstein
"No todo lo que brilla es oro. El periódico Nueva Presencia
y la dictadura militar
en Argentina, 1977-1983"
Emmanuel Kahan
"Las texturas y las políticas de la memoria: el papel de la
Shoá en el
posicionamiento comunitario y el activismo social de
diversos sectores de la
colectividad judía de la Argentina y sus implicaciones
institucionales y políticas
(1973-1984)"
Daniel Fainstein
"Una solidaridad selectiva:lLos exilados políticos
latinoamericanos en Israel
(1973-1978)"
Efraim Davidi
Panel 10: "Arabs and Jews in Latin America" I
Webb 103, 9:00 – 10:30
Moderator: Raanan Rein
"Dynamics of Arabs and Jews in Brazil in the present"
Regina Igel
"Visions of Grandeur: Brazil, Israel and the United
Nations 'Zionism Equals
Racism' Vote (1975)"
Jerry Dávila
Jeffrey Lesser
"Moors, Turks, Syrians and Poles in Cuba: Shared Collective
Imaginary,
Tensions and Reconfigured Identities"
Maritza Corrales
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
10
Panel 11: "Raíces identitarias en la literatura" I
Webb 104, 9:00 – 10:30
Moderator: Ana María Tapia
"Literature and Autobiography in the Writings of Isaías Leo
Kremer"
Daniel Nahson
"Trazando raíces en el habla"
Matilde Holte
"Jewish Enlightenment in Berlin and in Paramaribo - A
Contemporary
Perspective"
Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger
11:00 – 12:30 Panels
Panel 9: "Dictaduras latinoamericanas" II
Webb 102, 11:00 -12:30
Moderator: Daniel Fainstein
"Aullando con los lobos: comunidad judía de Chile durante la
dictadura de
Pinochet (1973-1990)"
Valeria Navarro
"Genocidio y campos de concentración en Chile, 1973-1990.
Reflexiones a
partir de la Shoá"
Silvana Vetö
Panel 10: "Arabs and jews in Latin America" II
Webb 103, 11:00 – 12:30
Moderator: Raanan Rein
"Inscribing Difference: Maronites, Jews and Arabs in Mexico,
Migrant
Institutions, Marriage Strategies and Popular Culture in the
Institutionalization of
Conflicting Ethno-religious Identities"
Camila Pastor
"Collective Identities and Public Sphere: Jews and Arabs in
Mexico"
Judit Liwerant
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
11
Panel 11: "Raíces identitarias en la literatura" II
Webb 104, 11:00 – 12:30
Moderator: Ana María Tapia
"Heine's Princess Sabbath in Grünberg's Spanish and Bialik's
Yiddish Versions"
Alan Astro
"Escritos de Yejezkel Fridman"
Ana María Tapia
Panel 12: "Antisemitismo y neonazismo en Latinoamérica" I
Webb 105 11:00 – 12:30
Moderator: Alicia Gojman
Haim Avni
"O incrível e grotesco passado: experiências do ensino dos
Protocolos dos
Sábios de Sião numa Universidade pública brasileira"
Marta Topel
"Tramas do Neonazismo: tessituras de ódio nas tramas das
cidades"
Adriana Abreu Dias
"Judeofobia en Chile durante la dictadura: el caso de Miguel
Serrano"
Gustavo Guzmán Castro
14:00 – 15:30 Panels
Panel 12: "Antisemitismo y neonazismo en Latinoamérica" II
Webb 105 14:00 – 15:30
Moderator: Alicia Gojman
Haim Avni
"Antisemitismo en Argentina: características y
diferenciaciones. Una visión
comparativa"
Graciela Ben-Dror
"Las actividades nazis en México a través del Archivo
Secreto de México: 1939-
1942"
Alicia Gojman
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
12
Panel 13: "Fronteras identitarias" I
Webb 104, 14:00 – 15:30
Moderator: Alisa Ginio
Marquesa Macadar
"Indios y judíos en Chiapas: apuntes y cuestiones
preliminares"
Luz del Rocío Bermúdez
"Judíos, indios y el mito de crimen ritual: el caso de
Chamula, Chiapas
(México), 1868"
Misgav Har-Peled
"El caso del indio frente a la inmigración árabe y judía en
Norpatagonia
(Argentina, 1900-1930)"
Mauricio Dimant
"El caso del inmigrante-olim indio frente a poblaciones
árabes y judías en
Samaria y Judea (Cisjordania, 1990-2004)"
Eduardo Torres
Panel 14: "Lo judío en escritores no judíos" I
Webb 103, 14:00 – 15:30
Moderator: Ruth Fine
"El Holocausto en obras de novelistas mexicanos no judíos:
Carlos Fuentes y
José Emilio Pacheco"
Malva Filer
"Rescuing Homero Aridjis: Latin American Jewish Literature
Beyond Identity
Politics"
Yael Halevi-Wies
"Manifestaciones de la identidad judía en textos de Roberto
Bolaño"
Myrna Solotorevsky
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
13
16:00 – 17:30 Panels
Panel 13: "Fronteras identitarias" II
Webb 104, 16:00 – 17:30
Moderator: Alisa Ginio
Marquesa Macadar
"Family Secrets: Journeying toward a Crypto-Jewish Heritage"
Martha Garza-Randeri
"New Discoveries in Hitherto Unknown Marranos-Anusim Life"
Gloria Mound
"Dos mundos, una palabra: inmigrantes árabes judíos a la
tacita del plata"
Marquesa Macadar
"La inmigración judía al Uruguay: procesos de aculturación,
asimilación e
integración"
Anabella Loy
Daniel Vidart
Panel 14: "Lo judío en escritores no judíos" II
Webb 103, 16:00 – 17:30
Moderator: Ruth Fine
"Los orígenes secretos de Borges: travesías y linajes"
Martin Hadis
"Fascismo en el espejo: barbarie europea y barbarie
argentina en 'El Sur' de
Borges"
Florinda Goldberg
"Borges and the Kabbalah: Seeking Access"
Mirta Kupferminc
Saúl Sosnowski
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
14
Panel 15: "Inmigrantes latinoamericanos judíos y no judíos
en Israel: una
perspectiva comparativa"
Webb 104, 16:00 – 17:30
Moderator: Rebeca Raijman
"Formas de organización comunitaria desarrolladas por
inmigrantes
latinoamericanos de origen judío"
Deby Babis
"Formas de organización comunitaria de los migrantes
laborales
latinoamericanos (no judíos)"
Rebeca Raijman
"El estatus civil de los niños de immigrantes laborales en
general y de la
comunidad latinoamericana en particular"
Anabel Lifszyc
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
15
Tuesday 28
9:00- 10:30 Panels
Panel 16: "Las nuevas escrituras del desarraigo judío en
Latinoamérica:
transmigraciones, identidades y lenguas" I
Webb 102, 9:00 -10:30
Moderator: Andrea Jeftanovic
"Exilio, escritura y memoria"
Gilda Waldman
"Tradición y huerfanía en las nuevas voces judías mexicanas"
Rodrigo Cánovas
"Reinventarse como héroe mítico"
Jorge Scherman
"Saudades de la tierra paterna"
Andrea Jeftanovic
Panel 17: "Entre dos mundos: Alteridad y Otredad en
manifestaciones
culturales"
Webb 105, 9:00 – 10:30
Moderator: Martina Weisz
"Entre dos mundos: juego de la alteridad en El Dibuk de
Ansky"
Atziri Cárdenas
"Exiliados judíos de la Guerra Civil Española en México"
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
"Golem, Hoúnculo, Judeu e Ìndio: Criaturas insólitas como
metáforas das
minorías étnicas na sociedade brasileira em "Cenas da vida
minúscula" de
Moacyr Scliar"
Lepoldo Oliviera
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
16
Panel 18: "Los judíos de origen sirio en América Latina:
procesos de
inserción a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX"
Webb 104, 9:00 – 10:30
Moderator: Liz Hamui
Susana Brauner
Commentator: Margalit Bejarano
"El Rabino Sedka Harari y la modernización comunitaria en
México (1950-
1980)"
Liz Hamui
"Os judeus de Alepo em São Paulo"
Rachel Mizrahi
"Los argentinos de origen judío y sirio: inserción en los
movimientos
contestatarios de los años sesenta y setenta"
Susana Brauner,
Silvina Schammah-Gesser
"Shaping the Boundaries of Sephardic Jewry in Latin America:
Mexico and
Panama in a Comparative Perspective"
Batia Siebzehner
11:00 - 12:30 Panels
Panel 16: "Las nuevas escrituras del desarraigo judío en
Latinoamérica:
transmigraciones, identidades y lenguas" II
Webb 102, 11:00 - 12:30
Moderator: Andrea Jeftanovic
"Judaísmos e izquierdas en las primeras vanguardias: de
Samuel Glusberg a
Mariátegui y Waldo Frank"
María Gabriela Mizraje
"Alias Enrique Espinoza: ¿un argentino, chileno, judío, o
qué?"
Rosalie Sitman
"Nuestra Shoá: dictaduras, Holocausto y represión en tres
novelas
judeorioplatenses"
Amalia Ran
"Presencia del misticismo judío en la literatura
latinoamericana contemporánea"
Ariana Huberman
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
17
Panel 19: "Paradigmas y prácticas identitarias judías en la
actualidad:
conflictos, evoluciones, cambios" I
Webb 103, 11:00 – 12:30
Moderator: Adriana Brodsky
"'Pero es un Ruso!' Marriage Choice, Conflict and the
Construction of a Jewish
Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
Adriana Brodsky
"Perspectiva sociológica en torno a la revitalización del
judaísmo ortodoxo en
Argentina"
Damián Setton
"En torno al problema de la formación judía hoy. Una
reflexión desde
Hermann Cohen y Franz Rosenzweig"
Emmanuel Taub
Panel 20: "Judíos latinoamericanos: una diáspora
transnacionalizada" I
Webb 104, 11:00 – 12:30
Moderator: Sergio DellaPergola
"Pluralizando hogares/patrias: los parámetros cambiantes de
la diáspora judía
en América Latina"
Judit Liwerant
"Diáspora y judaísmo: reflexiones teóricas y dinámicas
culturales en América
Latina"
Bernardo Sorj
"Cambios culturales como expresiones de transnacionalización"
Saúl Sosnowski
14:00 – 15:30 Panels
Panel 19: "Paradigmas y prácticas identitarias judías en la
actualidad:
conflictos, evoluciones, cambios" II
Webb 103, 14:00 – 15:30
Moderator: Adriana Brodsky
"Are you trying to kill me? You are my doctor, and you get
me a cheeseburger?"
Shulamit Halevy
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
18
"Who needs a rabbi?"
Leni Silverstein
"Entre la Torá y el manifiesto: tensiones en la construcción
de la identidad
judeocomunista en América Latina"
Daniel Kersffeld
Panel 20: "Judíos latinoamericanos: una diáspora
transnacionalizada" II
Webb 104, 14:00 – 15:30
Moderator: Sergio DellaPergola
"Intelectuales latinoamericanos frente a lo judío, los
judíos y la
transnacionalización"
Luis Roniger
"¿Diásporas transnacionales? Prácticas de ciudadanía dual y
etnicidad de
italianos y judíos argentinos en el nuevo milenio"
Leonardo Senkman
Panel 21: "Ecos de guerras nos trópicos"
Webb 102, 14:00 – 15:30
Moderator: Nancy Rozenchan
"Ecos da Guerra na literatura judaica no Brasil"
Saul Kirschbaum
"O Brasil na linha de fogo"
Berta Waldman
"Saga e lutas dos judeus da Argentina na ficção de Gabriela
Avigur-Rotem"
Nancy Rozenchan
"Uma Contribuição ao Registro da Participação de Militares
Brasileiros Judeus
na 2ª. Guerra Mundial"
Israel Blajberg
LAJSA 2009, Tel Aviv University
Conference Program
19
General Assembly: "Breaking Out and Breaking In: Latin
American Jewish
Studies 2009"
Webb 001, 16:00 – 17:30
Moderator: Rosalie Sitman
"From Jewish Gauchos to Anti-Nazis: The Challenge of Latin
American
Literature to Shoah Studies"
Edna Aizenberg
"Towards a Normalization of Jewish-Latin American
Historiography"
Raanan Rein
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August 2-6, 2009
שלום רב,
החלה ההרשמה לקונגרס העולמי החמישה עשר למדעי היהדות, שיתקיים
בירושלים, 2 עד 6 באוגוסט 2009.
בקונגרס יהיו 1,400 הרצאות בתחומי המחקר השונים של מדעי
היהדות, וביניהם: המקרא ועולמו, תולדות עם ישראל, ספרות חז"ל,
מחשבת ישראל, משפט עברי, ספרות עברית וספרויות היהודים, לשון
עברית ולשונות היהודים, אמנות יהודית, מוסיקה יהודית, תיאטרון
וקולנוע, החברה היהודית בת זמננו וחינוך יהודי. כמו כן יוצגו
מפעלי מחקר ומידע חדשים בתחומים אלה.

מידע תוכלו למצוא בעלון המצורף

בכבוד רב ובברכה,


רונאלה
מרדלר
יוחאי בן-גדליה
מנהלת האיגוד העולמי למדעי
היהדות מזכיר הקונגרס


טל: 02-5325831/5882593, פקס: 02-5325910
דוא"ל: jewishst@vms.huji.ac.il

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J U N E P R O G R A M S

June 4, 2009
Thursday, June 4 at 1:30pm

The American Sephardi Federation presents:

Common Fate

ASF Membership Film Series The film describes the
institution and impact of racial laws, property confiscation
and the establishment of forced labor concentration camps in
German occupied Tunis, and under the Vichy regimes in
Algeria and Morocco. It relates the general suffering and
death of North African Jews as the result of starvation,
disease and the violence directed against them. Director:
Serge Ankri. Israel, 2005. 52 mins. Hebrew w/English
subtitles.

Admission: $5 at the door; free for ASF members and a guest

For more information, please visit www.programs.cjh.org.

For all reservations and inquiries (unless otherwise noted),
please call SmartTix
at 212-868-4444
or visit www.smarttix.com.

All coats and bags MUST be checked. Please plan accordingly.

Monday, June 8 at 7pm
Center for Jewish History and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
present:

Refugees and Rescue: American Diplomat James G. McDonald and
the Jewish Refugee Crisis,
1935¬-1945

Panel Discussion The remarkable efforts of James Grover
McDonald to call attention to the threat faced by European
Jewry and his tireless attempts to relay these concerns to
the highest levels of government are explored in the
acclaimed new volume Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and
Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945, edited by Richard
Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg.

As Chairman of the President's Advisory Commission on
Political Refugees, McDonald personally interacted with many
of the leading figures who shaped the events of World War II
and the Holocaust - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf
Hitler, Mussolini, Cardinal Pacelli (the future Pope Pius
XII) - and numerous others.

The evening's discussion will highlight new insights into
the Nazi regime and American responses to the Jewish refugee
crisis from the insider's perspective of James G. McDonald's
remarkable and well-documented experiences.

Admission: $10 general; $5 CJH and USHMM members



June 15, 2009


מרכז תיעוד
משרד החינוך
יהודי צפון אפריקה
המרכז לשילוב
במלחמת העולם השנייה מורשת יהדות המזרח

מכון בן-צבי



כשהתותחים רועמים המוזות לא שותקות
מוזיקה ולוחמים יהודים בצפון אפריקה
במלחמת העולם השנייה




יום שני, כ"ג בסיוון, 15.6.09, בשעה 19:30
סינמטק ירושלים, דרך חברון 11

לפרטים: מרכז התיעוד, טל' 02-5398869, 02-5398844
דוא"ל: tamarf@ybz.org.il; www.ybz.org.il

כרטיסים בקופת הסינמטק

בכורה עולמית של התמונה המוזיקלית "יוסף"
שהלחין משה בן-אסף
לזכר הלוחם היהודי יוסף ברייטמן
בביצוע תזמורת הבוגרים של קונסרבטוריון קריית אונו בניצוחו של
גיא פדר

אנדרה היידו, אוניברסיטת בר אילן
זיכרונות שואה ביצירות מוזיקליות יהודיות

ריקודים עתיקים לזכר קהילות יהודיות שנשמדו בשואה מאת אנדרה
היידו
בביצוע תזמורת הבוגרים של קונסרבטוריון קריית אונו בניצוחו של
גיא פדר

שירים שהוקדשו ללוחמים העברים
אשר שירתו במלחמת העולם השנייה בצפון אפריקה
בביצוע הזמרת מאיה בלולו, מקהלת אנקור

מנחה: איזי מן, קול ישראל

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June 17-18, 2009. Conference on Jewish Literatures,
Conference Hall A, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. [Hebrew]
For details or reservations please contact Kineret Mizrahi,
Gaon Center for Ladino Culture
Tel: 972-8-6428323
FAX" 972-8-6428324
gaon@bgu.ac.il
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June 17, 2009.
יום עיון ואזכרה לרפאל גוילי ז"ל
במלואת שנה לפטירתו של רפאל גוילי ז"ל, ביום רביעי, כ"ה בסיון
תשס"ט – 17.6.2009, יתקיים יום עיון ולימוד ואזכרה לזכרו, בבית
הכנסת "ברכת אהרון", רח' הנגיד 3, רמת-גן (ליד רח' ביאליק)
יום העיון יחל בשעה 12:00
תפילת מנחה וערבית, ודברים לזכרו בשעה 18:45

למחרת, ביום חמישי, כ"ו בסיון תשס"ט – 18.6.2009, בשעה 07:45,
עולים לקברו בבית-העלמין "זיכרון מאיר" בבני-ברק

המשפחה

****************PAST SEPHARDIC
EVENTS****************************

May 7, 2009

Since the May 7th celebration of our
Santangel book, I haved be very busy with writing a press
release to distribute to the press and to my sponsors and
with preparing all
of the photos of the event. But I do not forget you, my dear
friend! Before
more time goes by, I would like to send you a copy of the
press release so that you may know what a wonderful success
it was. If you think that it would be of interest to publish
some of this information
in Sefarad, it would be a great privilege for me. I know
that what I have written is very long--but I have tried to
include everything relevant; then, each
venue can edit and select what it wants to publish. It seems
to have taken forever
to get the press release text ready, but I wanted to have my
co-organizers approval
before I sent it anywhere, and I also have translated it
into Spanish to send to my
contacts in Spain and Latin America. I am attaching to this
email the
press release in English. If you or anyone you know would
like a copy in Spanish, please just let me know

As you can see in the attached images and read about in my
press release, the
Santangel book was awarded the Medal of the Four Sephardic
Synagogues in
Jerusalem at my May 7th event. What a thrill and what an
honor! There is so much
more to do and so much more that I would like to share with
you, but for today I
want to get this information and the three following images
to you:

Image Photo.LeMieux1: The moment at the May 7th event when
Dr. Abraham Haim
awarded the Medal to me, at the end of his speech. What an
emotional and
a happy moment for everyone! You can see that my book had a
place of honor next
to the podium all evening.

Image Photo.LeMieux2: The front side of the Medal, up close:
people have been asking
to see the Medal; so, I have scanned it so that everyone can
see its beautiful
details.

ImagePhoto.LeMieux3: The back side of the Medal, also up
close.

These are the attachments for today. I hope that all is very
well with
you and with your family. Please know that I am thinking
about you
and that the May 7th attendees in Chicago absolutely loved
the
copies of Sefarad that I printed from my computer. Thank
you again so much. I hope that your sabbatical year has
proven to be something wonderful.

Un fuerte abrazo,
Kathleen












PRESS RELEASE WITH IMAGES

(For Immediate
Release)









Chicago ― The following is an announcement of a dream of
many years that has been realized through friendship on an
international scale. On Thursday, May 7, 2009, at 6:30PM, a
round table discussion entitled "Jews and Conversos in the
Discovery of America" took place in Chicago at the Instituto
Cervantes (31 W. Ohio Street), Spain's cultural and Spanish
language center. This program was presented under the
auspices of the Consulate General of Spain in Chicago. It
was sponsored by the American Jewish Committee Chicago
Chapter, the Alliance of Latinos and Jews and the America-
Israel Chamber of Commerce Chicago and was supported in part
by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. For this
celebration of friends and colleagues from the U.S., Spain
and Israel, the beautiful Instituto Cervantes Auditorium
welcomed over 200 audience members. The standing-room-only
assembly is an excellent indicator of the enormous interest
that the event topics have generated.

The reason for this gathering was the recent publication of
Lluís de Santàngel, Primer Financiero de América (America's
First Financier). This big red book (531 pages, illustrated)
is based on the proceedings of the International Symposium
SANTÁNGEL 98, a forum held in Chicago in August of 1998. The
organizer of the symposium and editor and general
coordinator of the Santàngel anthology, Chicago-area native
Kathleen E. LeMieux, presided at the May 7th round table
discussion. Both symposium and book explore the
contributions of a little known but essential figure in the
history of Spain and America and, by extension, the
significance of Jewish Spain of the Columbus era and the
heritage of the Sephardic Jews around the world through the
centuries until today. As can be seen from the extensive
Acknowledgments and from the important symposium texts
themselves, this book is the result of a series of
collaborations by numerous individuals and institutions
across three continents. Following nearly ten years of
complex international negotiations, the volume was published
in Valencia, Spain, by the Conselleria de Cultura y Deporte
of the Generalitat Valenciana (regional government) and was
superbly printed in Valencia by Martín Impresores. It was
proofread and formatted over many months via the Internet as
email attachments between Valencia and Chicago.

The story of the title character is one that is rarely
included in history lessons outside of Spain: It was January
of 1492. Christopher Columbus, after years of following the
Spanish Court, had departed Granada after what he understood
was the final rejection by the King and Queen of his
proposal to sail west to reach the East. Into this seemingly
lost situation appeared a courageous and articulate man
named Lluís de Santàngel. In what must have been an
extraordinary speech which lasted only minutes, Santàngel
convinced Queen Isabella to change her mind and to accept
Columbus's voyage, which Santàngel then made possible by
underwriting it with his own funds. Columbus and Santàngel
are forever linked with the history of Spain and America. In
spite of his far-reaching contributions, however, Lluís de
Santàngel remains largely unknown and unappreciated today,
and his essential role is often ignored in favor of the
legend that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to secure
Columbus's venture. Santàngel, who would become King
Ferdinand's indispensable Comptroller General and Advisor,
was born into a prominent family of Jewish ancestry in the
city of Valencia of the second half of the fifteenth
century, a flourishing economic, political, scientific,
cultural and educational center. This Valencian courtier,
whose decisive action and personal funding saved Columbus's
enterprise for Spain and literally altered the course of
history, deserves the title of America's First Financier.

The Santàngel tome first went on sale in Valencia in the
spring of 2008. In exciting news just received from
Valencia, the book has been so well received in Spain that
the first edition is almost completely sold out even before
it has been made available for purchase in the United
States. While the Generalitat Valenciana markets the book in
Europe, Ms. LeMieux has distributed complimentary copies
across North and South America to participants in the
international SANTANGEL PROJECT, of which she is director,
and to interested persons and institutions, such as
synagogues, embassies, consulates, community groups,
universities, schools, historical societies and libraries.
The book has been nominated for and accepted as a candidate
for the prestigious Samuel Toledano Prize awarded by the
Center for Research and Education of the Heritage of
Sephardic and Oriental Judaism in Jerusalem. This Prize is
bestowed annually on one Israeli and one Spaniard
(individual or entity) each of whom has achieved exceptional
projects and studies on topics such as the Sephardic
Diaspora and its historical and cultural legacy; the
relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Spain; and
the relations between Spain and Israel. Prize winners
receive $15,000 for their work. Due to the success of Lluís
de Santàngel, Ms. LeMieux has initiated talks aimed at
publishing a children's book on the subject complete with
bilingual grade-specific learning materials, including
audiovisual components, for use in schools.

The May 7th program spoke to the wide-ranging subjects
contained in the Santàngel anthology and to the friendly
collaboration that made possible both the 1998 symposium and
the book. A copy of Lluís de Santàngel was displayed on a
special stand near the podium during the program. Opening
the talks was Juan Carlos Vidal, Director of the Instituto
Cervantes in Chicago. He welcomed the audience, thanked the
sponsors and described the work of the Instituto Cervantes
in Chicago and around the world. Señor Vidal was followed by
Luis Aznar, Director of IVEX Chicago (Trade Development and
Promotion Agency for the Region of Valencia, Spain), who
read a letter of greeting from Rafael Miró Pascual,
Secretary of Culture and representative of the Generalitat
Valenciana and the Community of Valencia. In his letter,
Señor Miró outlined some of the numerous cultural and
historical ties that unite Valencia and the U.S. and,
especially, Valencia and Chicago. Kathleen E. LeMieux then
presented a Power Point program during which she detailed,
with images of the Spain of Santàngel, her 40 years of
travel, research and filmmaking with Charles B. LeMieux,
along with personal anecdotes related to the art of
publishing in Valencia and the joy of working on these
projects with Spanish friends.

The next two speakers, Rabbi Michael Azose and Dr. Abraham
Haim, had both given talks at the 1998 symposium, and both
have papers published in the Santàngel volume. Rabbi Azose,
leader of the Sephardic Congregation in Evanston, Illinois,
for almost 40 years, chose as his topic the Jewish ancestry
of Christopher Columbus. Dr. Haim, Chairman of the
Education, Culture and Heritage Committee of the Council of
Sephardi and Oriental Communities in Jerusalem, and who in
2009 is celebrating 30 years of teaching and outreach in
Spain, traveled to Chicago from Israel in order to
participate in the May 7th event. He discussed the modern
history of the Sephardic Community in Jerusalem.

At the end of his talk, Dr. Haim surprised and delighted
everyone present with the awarding of the Medal of the Four
Sephardic Synagogues of Jerusalem to Kathleen E. LeMieux,
who accepted the homage to her work in the name of all those
who had collaborated on the project. Upon presenting the
award, Dr. Haim referred to LeMieux's unwavering dedication
to bring the Santàngel book into print by recalling these
words of Winston Churchill: "A miracle of deliverance,
achieved by valor, by perseverance, by perfect discipline,
by faultless service, by resource, by skill, by
unconquerable fidelity, is manifest to us all" (from
Churchill's "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech to the
House of Commons on June 4, 1940, following the Dunkirk
evacuation of 338,000 allied troops to English shores). The
Medal of the Four Sephardic Synagogues of Jerusalem is
struck by the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation
exclusively for the Sephardic Community Council, one of the
oldest organizations in the Holy Land, founded in Jerusalem
as early as 1267. The bronze Medal, measuring about 2¼
inches in diameter, honors those whose work furthers and
sustains Sephardic history and culture and those whose
efforts advance the peaceful and lasting co-existence of
cultures and nations. Among other recipients, this Medal has
been awarded to the following Spaniards: His Royal Highness
Felipe, Prince of Asturias; former President of the
Government, José María Aznar; Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Cooperation, Miguel Ángel Moratinos; National Ombudsman
(Defender of the People of Spain), Enrique Mújica Herzog;
and performer and preserver of the music of medieval Spain,
Eduardo Paniagua.

In closing the program, Ambassador Javier Rupérez, Consul
General of Spain in Chicago, invited everyone to enjoy the
Reception with Kosher food and Spanish wine, a delicious
buffet offered to the evening's guests by the Instituto
Cervantes and the Consulate General of Spain. The
magnificent Reception also included complimentary copies of
the Santàngel book donated by the Generalitat Valenciana,
which allowed a book signing by anthology authors. There
were tables with information booklets and sheets pertaining
to event themes, as well as lovely travel brochures from the
Office of Tourism of Spain in Chicago, all of which people
could take with them for further reading. On these tables
were descriptions of books published by friends of the
SANTANGEL PROJECT, well-written and engaging works with
related subjects of enormous interest to the attendees:
Toledoth - City of Generations by Sheldon Mike Young; Emma
Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters by Bette Roth Young;
and The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an
Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
by Dolores Sloan. Among the free copies of newsletters and
bulletins available to guests, who were very happy to become
acquainted with them and have an opportunity to read them,
were U.S. publications Erensia Sefardi and HaLapid (Bulletin
of the Society of Crypto Jews), the Israeli-based editions,
Casa Shalom Journal (of the Institute for Marrano-Anusim
Studies and Sefarad, the Sephardic Newsletter and Los
muestros, published in Brussels.

From the earliest planning stages, the May 7th meeting was
designed to be a comfortable venue that would bring together
people of diverse backgrounds to take part in the admission-
free program, to ask questions and to comment on the
subjects presented. Audience members talked about a new or
renewed desire to travel to Spain and to Jerusalem and to
learn Spanish for the first time or brush up on their
language skills at the Instituto Cervantes. The spirited
discussions at the Reception included: Santàngel as man and
symbol for increasing awareness of the roles played by
Spanish Jews and Conversos in the early exploration and
colonization of the New World; international cooperation,
friendship, respect and tolerance for diversity; and the new
Santàngel book as a stimulus for greater understanding of
relations between Spain, America and Israel. In reference to
the Santàngel anthology itself, one question that was asked
over and over again at the Reception was, "How do I get a
copy of the big red book?" Most especially, there was an
enthusiastic desire voiced by many to encourage the
organization of related events in the future and to continue
the dialogue thus begun with the 1998 symposium, the newly-
published Lluís de Santàngel and the May 2009 celebration of
friends, history, culture and good food at Chicago's
Instituto Cervantes.


For further information, please contact:

Kathleen E. LeMieux
P.O. Box 5731
Director
River Forest, IL
THE SANTANGEL PROJECT 60305-5731
E-MAIL: xpoferens@yahoo.com

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Au Festival d’Avignon, l’actrice de 81 ans se tire avec art d’une adaptation ardue : la chronique des conquêtes romaines en Judée.

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