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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
During a recent visit to Mexico, I spent three days in Mexico City, where I had a chance to visit the institutions of the Aleppan Jewish community. My host was Dr. Liz Hamui, a professor at the National University of Mexico, whom I met at the International Conference on Syrian Jewry held in May at B...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
The Shehebar Sephardic Center (SCC) trains and sends rabbinical leaders to the four corners of the earth helping to revive dying communities by instilling Jewish values and practices, educating Jews about their history, preventing assimilation and assuring continuity. Their work is possible thanks ...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and historically significant Jewish communities. It was to Babylon that the Jews were exiled around 600 BCE. The descendants of these exiles ensured that Babylonia became the most important Jewish community after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem. The...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
Iraqi Jews were famous for commerce throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. They sat at the crossroads of trade routes, buying and selling, and venturing abroad to procure merchandise. Wherever they traveled, they brought Judaism with them. They also established communities in Indonesia when the country ...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
At the top of the sloping, green hill, the round castle looms dramatically against the sky. To the casual observer, the scene might just be another picturesque tourist attraction. But here at Clifford's Tower in 1189, in York, England, a tragic, but little-known event in Jewish history took place.
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
The Jewish community in Norway is one of the country's smallest ethnic and religious minorities, yet boasts a long, storied history.
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
The Jews in Norway have a long history. The Jewish community in Norway is one of the country's smallest ethnic and religious minorities. The largest synagogue is in Oslo, and a smaller synagogue in Trondheim is often claimed, erroneously, to be the world's northernmost synagogue.
Norwegians con...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
For more than two millennia, the city of Toledo has sat on the top of a granite hill surrounded like a horseshoe by the River Tagus, just 40 miles from Madrid. The present day Alcazar (castle) stands where there was a Roman fortress. Jews were a part of Toledo's history since the last years of the R...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
Presented by the Shehebar Sephardic Center
Since Shehebar Sephardic Center's inception more than 25 years ago, they have evolved into a remarkable and significant global outreach program. The program's main goal is to ensure Jewish continuity through education, made possible through the work an...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
In 1700, Rabbi Judah he-Hasid and between 300-1,000 students arrived in Jerusalem from Poland. They bought the courtyard next to the Ramban Synagogue, which had been closed by the Ottomans in 1589 due to Muslim incitement and they began building a synagogue to accommodate the increased Jewish popula...
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