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Community Articles/Organizations
It never rains at Camp Simcha, at least for its remarkable campers. Camp Simcha is very similar to your traditional sleepaway camp, with soccer fields, swimming pools and a cafeteria. The only difference is that every single camper has cancer or another serious illness. So for two weeks a year, thes...
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Community Articles/Travel
After a very hectic summer, Albert and I decided we needed peace and quiet. Europe was not the answer and a cruise required too many clothing changes, so after much deliberation we decided on Canada.
We didn’t go to Montreal or Quebec, which are closest to New York; instead we flew strai...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Congregants were sad when Cantor/Rabbi David Abikzer, 68, retired from the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst after 44 years. Although they begged him to stay, he was ready to move on. “I will continue to sing and perform,” he assured them.
Although he’s happy with his decision, h...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Career Discovery at MDY is dedicated to promoting and continuing academic excellence from the elementary school throughout high school. Beginning in the 8th grade, a Career Discovery MDY advisor will be assigned to every child, working one-on-one to identify each student's interest and to ensure tha...
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Community Articles/Community Announcements
Sephardic Nightlife Music
Presented by
American Sephardi Federation (ASF) and Yeshivah University Museum (YUM)
01/17/2008 | 537 Hits |  (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Organizations
Purim night, always a happy and joyous occasion, was especially festive this year at Congregation Magen David of West Deal. Community members from all over the Deal area joined together to participate in the synagogue's annual Purim Dinner and Celebration.
05/02/2008 | 393 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Each week of the year, another of the Torah's 54 parshat is studied, publicly read in the synagogue, and its lessons applied to daily living. Thus the Jew lives with the Torah: the Five Books of Moses are his calendar, their chapters and verses marking, defining, molding and inspiring the weeks and ...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Assemblyman Cymbrowitz hosted a “celebrate the end of summer” luncheon for 400 local seniors at Kingsborough Community College, recently. The seniors, most of whom came from local senior centers, were treated to lunch, greetings from the event’s keynote speaker, Brooklyn District A...
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Community Articles/Community Events
The name Edmond J. Safra is synonymous with philanthropy and benevolence. A Lebanese-born Jew who rose to prominence in the banking industry, Mr. Safra supported a remarkable diversity of institutions and charities during his lifetime. While his legacy of giving affected Jewish communities worldwide...
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Community Articles/Jewish History
Rosh Hashanah
It is customary to sound the shofar and blow trumpets at the coronation of a king. Similarly, on Rosh Hashanah, we crown G-d. The shofar represents a simple outcry of a person who recognized his spiritual ‘poverty' and whose feelings cannot be contained in word...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Permanent Chabad Synagogue/Kosher Restaurant in Guangzhou Inauguration a Big Success!
10/18/2007 | 644 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Education
During its quarter of a century of educating hundreds of students, the Shehebar Sephardic Center has produced over 150 rabbis and communal leaders who accepted positions throughout the world on practically every continent and in the most out-of-the-way cities from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, ...
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Community Articles/Community Events
This past fall, Chief Rabbi of Israel, The Rishon LeZion, Hakham Shlomo Amar, Shlita, spent an entire day on campus visiting and inspiring the Yeshiva University community. The daylong visit was organized by the Center for Jewish Future (CJF) in cooperation with YU's Sephardic Community Program (SCP...
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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
Recently, the Brooklyn Sephardic community was honored to have as its special guest Rabbi David Messas, Chief Rabbi of Paris, France. The rabbi, who had spent that weekend visiting various Sephardic synagogues, had come to New York by special invitation for a meeting of the Orthodox Union regarding ...
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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a great scholar and daring legislator, Chief Rabbi of Israel (1972-1983), spiritual teacher and political leader to hundreds of thousands, never ceases to surprise. He surprised everyone in the rabbinical arena when he rose in amazing speed from office to office and was elected...
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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
A little over 10 years ago we were orphaned by the loss of our esteemed and honorable Chief Rabbi Hacham Yaakov Shaul Kassin. In his infinite foresight, Hacham Yaakov saw the frenzy we would be in. He left our new father, patriarch, educator, and his right-hand man, Hacham Shaul Yaakov Kassin, as h...
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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
Born in Morocco in 1948, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Shlita immigrated to Israel in 1962. As a close associate of former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Hacham Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Amar served as head of the Petah Tikva Rabbinical Court. In March 2002, he was elected as the first sole Chief Rabbi ...
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Community Articles/Health
Cholesterol is a soft, fat-like, waxy substance found in the bloodstream and in all your body's cells. It's normal to have cholesterol. Cholesterol is an important part of a healthy body because it's used for producing cell membranes and some hormones, and serves other needed bodily functions.
11/05/2007 | 414 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Community Announcements
Some of the world's leading researchers will converge in Mexico City in September for an International Congress on Syrian Jewry in the American Diaspora. The schedule of speakers and topics promises to be one of the most enticing for Syrian history buffs.
Sponsored by Banque Safdie, the Congres...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Recently, Congregation Magen David of Belle Harbor celebrated its first ever inauguration of a rabbi. In September of 2007, Magen David hired Rabbi Izhar Azriel, a member of the first graduating class of the Sephardic Rabbinical College (SRC) and the Shehebar Sephardic Center (SSC).
04/01/2008 | 591 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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