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Liza Cemal
Jan 711 min read
Las Validjas—National Sephardic Essay Competition Student Winner 2024
Family photo. First row from left to right: Nava, Avram Hatem, Emel, Roza Hatem. Second row from left to right: Doron, Eliza Presented in...


Magazine Staff
Jan 76 min read
A Sepharadi in Jewish politics—A conversation with World Zionist Congress Chairman Yaakov Hagoel
Yaakov Hagoel, the Chairman of the World Zionist Organization, is the first Sephardic Jew to head up the global Jewish organization With...

Magazine Staff
Jan 72 min read
Ex-Thessaloniki Mayor Who Fought to Recognize City’s Holocaust History Dies at 82
Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris sports a replica Nazi concentration camp Star of David after his swearing-in ceremony in...

Larry Luxner
Jan 74 min read
Thessaloniki Breaks Ground on New Holocaust Museum
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier participates in the planting of two trees at the location of the Greek Holocaust museum in...

Elyssa Marcus
Sep 30, 20243 min read
Sacred Connection Through Place: My Experience in Veria, Greece
Author Elyssa Marcus reviewing names of Holocaust victims at the Holocaust Center for the Jews of North Macedonia in Skopje Reflecting...


David Behar
Sep 30, 20245 min read
Reflections on a Summer in Rhodes—Joining the Brotherhood’s Tour of Jewish Rhodes
Author David Behar with Rabbi David Benchlouch praying during Shaharit morning services at the Kahal Kadosh Shalom Synagogue of Rhodes In...


Ina Romano
Sep 26, 20243 min read
The Sephardic Community of Sofia, Bulgaria
Interior of the Great Synagogue of Sofia, Bulgaria While there are historical facts proving there has been Jewish life in Bulgaria dating...


Rabbi Naftali Haleva
Mar 14, 20242 min read
The Jewish Community of Istanbul
The Jewish Community of Istanbul is still an active and vibrant Sephardic Jewish Community, one that has a long history dating back...


Magazine Staff
Jan 15, 20242 min read
Holocaust Museum of Thessaloniki Finally Gets Building Approval
The municipality of Thessaloniki finally approved the construction of the Holocaust Museum, a decade after the project was conceived. It...


Rabbi James Benman
Jan 15, 20241 min read
The Sephardic Community of Lima, Peru
Bienvenidos a la Sociedad de Beneficencia Israelita Sefardi - welcome to the Lima Sephardic Community! Our community has a long and proud...


Michel Azaria
Sep 4, 20234 min read
Distortions of the Holocaust narrative in Bulgaria - Interview with Dr. Alexander Oscar, President of Bulgaria's Jewish community
At a time when a growing number of examples of distortion of the Shoah narrative are being deplored in various Central European...


Magazine Staff
Sep 4, 20232 min read
Historic Greek Synagogue on the Island of Kos Inaugurated
On Sunday, July 23, 2023, the Municipality of the island of Kos, the Central Board of the Jewish Communities of Greece (KISs), the Civic...

Zach Youcha
Sep 4, 20234 min read
Rediscovering Jewish Monastir
Over a century ago, a young woman by the name of Sarah decided to make the journey from Ottoman Monastir, now Bitola, North Macedonia, to...


Belin Benezra Yensarfati
Sep 4, 20232 min read
The Jewish Community of Izmir
As the education coordinator of Sunday School in Izmir, I am delighted to share with you all the amazing activities and accomplishments...


Andrew Marcus
Sep 4, 20233 min read
Young Professionals Tour of Jewish Turkey
Our first ever Young Professionals Tour of Jewish Turkey took place in July and it was an incredible experience! Twenty young community...


Selin Toledo
Sep 4, 20234 min read
Kreser en la komunidad djudya de Estanbol
Entre todas kozas, nasi djudya, i entre todos lugares, nasi en Estanbol. Estos dias ser “djudyo turko” parese interesante a la djente,...


Rachel Amado Bortnick
Sep 4, 20233 min read
Izmir Se Desperto!
Oy en dia en Izmir biven solo mil djudios entre mas de 4 milyones de povlasion. Ma un tiempo, antes del establesimiento del estado de...


Magazine Staff
Apr 17, 20232 min read
Greece Commemorates the 80th Anniversary of the Deportations of the Jews of Salonika
Republished with Permission from the Greek Reporter On Sunday Greece commemorated the first deportations of Greek Jews from Thessaloniki...


Magazine Staff
Apr 17, 20231 min read
Stella Levi, Sephardic Holocaust Survivor from the island of Rhodes, turns 100, awarded special honor from the Italian Republic
Mazal Tov to our Sephardic Community member & Auschwitz Holocaust survivor Stella Levi on receiving one of the highest honors of the...


Magazine Staff
Apr 17, 20231 min read
Prime Minister of North Macedonia visits Kehila Kedosha Janina in New York, meets with Sephardic & Greek Jewish Community leadership
In a first for any of our Sephardic Communities in the United States, one of our affiliate congregations was paid a special visit by a...
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