Announcing the #ASF's #Hamas War Resource Page, featuring the appearances and articles of ASF Sephardi House and Broome & Allen Fellows, ASF Staff, & Partners #HamasMassacre #Israel #HamasISIS #AmericanSephardi #AllJewsTogether #Jewish #GreaterSephardi americansephardi.org/asf-hamas-war-…

Here are a few photos of my family in Khonsar, Iran. Possibly two of very few documents about the Jews of that city. @MaryamBagh91457 My father believed, to the very end, that it was the most beautiful place on earth!

yes yes and yes! from our founding Jews were included as jews! we were not given tolerance- (thx Washington @Newport) we were equal- and that set the model for all minorities- you can live your difference here as part of the american story- it is what makes america great

🕯️Baroukh Dayan haEmeth. For the past year, as we recited blessings for the hostages in Israel, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani Ben Sonia (age 20), an Iranian Jew, was included in that fragile hope. This past Shabbath, I found myself wondering, "will we soon have to update this?"…

How did the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky get lumped together with the latest news about births, deaths, weddings, bar-mitzvah celebrations, and new arrivals to and departures from Baghdadi-Jewish Shanghai? Read the latest Sephardi Ideas Monthly! americansephardi.org/news/simoct24/

Protection Against the Evil Eye of Resentment - A Special Letter from the Land of Israel for Simchat Torah, 5785 americansephardi.org/news/simchat-t… #AllJewsTogether #SimchatTorah #Judaism #Sepharadim #Sephardic #DigitalDust #Egypt #Babylon #Israel #ASF #AmericanSepahrdi #GreaterSepahrdi

I will never forget the day when the 38-year-old brilliant journalist, #DanielPearl was savagely murdered. His murder was a warning to all of us in the western world, Jews and non-Jews, that there's a war of civilizations brewing up in the world. A war between kindness and…

In 2021, @isaacdecastrog inspired the #ASF to take a principled stand against California's #ESMC. Post-#October7, lessons still need learning, eg: Antisemites do not discriminate BTW the types of Jews they hate, but rather hate all Jews. #AllJewsTogether americansephardi.org/projects/beyon…

"Unfortunately, efforts to make the Jewish community more inclusive of Jewish diversity have been used to smuggle in an illiberal ideology...." Real inclusivity means "a commitment to Klal Yisrael—the entirety of the Jewish people—in all its diversity and beauty."…

The American Sephardi Federation remembers all of the innocents in Israel who were brutally slaughtered, abducted, raped, and maimed by Hamas on October 7, 2023—as well as the thousands who have been killed, wounded, tortured, and displaced due to the terrorism of the Iranian…

Shabua tob! The #Sephardi World Weekly features: Jewish Awakening @TheGarden/MSG (@mijalbitton/@JTAnews), Hidden Spanish History (@BrianFishbach/@JewishJournal/ @xuetaisland), & Yom Kippur #Piyyut #IshayRibo’s Lekha Eli Teshukati sendfox.com/lp/1xkwyn

Shabbat Shalom! The Sephardi World Weekly features: Celebrating Resilience @ the 26th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (@MarjanKg), Holiday Kids’ Books (@PennySchwartz/@JTAnews), & Selichot @ the Kotel! #AllJewsTogether #EnricoMacias #NYSJFF #ASF sendfox.com/lp/19jknd

Shabbat Shalom! The #Sephardi World features From (Prophet) Mohamad to Mohamad (Jebara) (@ArminRosen/@WSJ/@MacmillanUSA), Modernist Sephardic Artists (#DevinNaar/@SephardicUW/@AyinPress), & Metula Evacuation (@isaacdecastrog/@aniwilc/@tabletmag). sendfox.com/lp/mpdqvy

I just bumped into Stella Levi, a 102 year-old woman from the Island of Rhodes and one of a small number of Sefardic Auschwitz survivors. She was in the offices of @AmericanSephard, with which she has worked for 50 years. Her amazing story, 100 Saturdays, is linked below.

Indeed! If the 11-15 Sepharadi Jewish Noble Laureates (in Chemistry, Economics, Literature, Peace, Physiology or Medicine, & Physics) were from one country, it would rank ahead of most others, incl the world's most populous. #AllJewsTogether #Sephardi #Sephardim #Judaism

During Tisha B’Av, Jews mourn the destruction of the first and second temples in Jerusalem, making it the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. I join my friends in the Jewish faith not only in mourning the destruction of the first and second temples but also in celebrating that…

Tragically, too many attempts to divide us are made by some of us. :(

Tish’a B’Ab demonstrates the link btw disunity & destruction caused by baseless hatred (sinat hinam), aka discriminating against a group identity. We must stand for Jewish unity against ignoble attempts to divide us! #AllJewsTogether #Sephardi #ASF #ProudJew #TishaBeav #CRT #ESMC

Which country is the rising neocolonialist powers in the Middle East? I am excited to announce that a scholarly article I co-authored with Jason Guberman has been published in The Brown Journal of World Affairs. Our article, "Transcending Western Myopia: Understanding…

Statement by @Conf_of_Pres Vehemently Condemning Hezbollah Attack on Majdal Shams   "Today, our hearts break for the families of the 12 teenagers murdered by Hezbollah’s missile attack on Majdal Shams. This tragedy comes on the heels of months of vicious assaults on the north of…

In a collection of pre-1979 Iranian books donated to the #ASF's National Sephardic Libary & Archives, we discovered a Persian-language volume on the Trial of Eichmann! Don't miss the final performance of @DavidSerero's world premiere play on the trial this Thurs! @cjewishhistory