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Another look at demography: Hello, is there a Jew in the house?
Have a million lost Jews really been discovered in the United States? And, if so, where have they been until now? And how is "Jew" even defined? [Full article...]By: Sergio Della Pergola
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In Memoriam: Dr. José Miller Ferdman
On February the 27th, 2006 at Havana, Cuba passed away Dr. José Miller, leader of the Cuban Jewish community and a close friend of our department and his president. In posthumous homage to his action for his people we present this article “In Memoriam” from the pen of the historian Dr. Margalit Bejarano. [Full article...]By: Margalit Bejarano
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Feature Organization: Saving Children's Lives, Spreading Tolerance
A young American who served as volunteer in Israel, shares with us his memorable learning experience at the "Save a Child's Heart" organization, where a group of cardiologists, pediatric heart surgeons and nurses donate their time in order to save as many children's lives as possible. With the slogan of “a child is a child”, they operate on any child in need regardless of religion, race, sex, or background creating the wonderful side effect of spreading tolerance and acceptance of each other's cultures. [Full article...]By: Hagshama Department
Aliyah InfoBase > Life in Israel
Israel
Israel > Advocacy
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Social Action Organizations
Voices of the Young
The Yemenite step: Judaism and Islam in Yemen: A Cast Study in Historical and Cultural Interaction
Muslim Arabs have coexisted more or less peaceably with Jewish minorities within their dominant theocratic polities, in several parts of the world for a millennium-and-a-half. So it was in Yemen, where, additionally, both groups were always exceedingly devout. [Full article...]By: Ephraim Isaac
Jews Around the World
From Spain to Zion: The Contribution of the Sepharadim to Zionism
There is a common misconception that Zionism is purely Ashkenazi. To learn about the Sepharadic roots of Zionism, read on…. [Full article...]By: Solomon Gaon
Jewish History > 0600 - 1789: Middle Ages
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
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People > 0600 - 1789: Middle Ages
People > 1789-1860: Haskala (Emancipation)
People > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
Zionism > Zionism and the Diaspora
: America is Galut
The Jew cannot settle down in freedom to be himself, "just like everybody else." When in his own inner consciousness he begins to approach a real feeling of at-homeness within the larger society, what remains of his Jewish identity is too little and to personalized to sustain a community. It inevitably follows that there is only one possible mode for the survival of a Jewish community in a free society. It can live only by emphasizing what is unique to itself and by convincing its children that that uniqueness is worth having. [Full article...]By: Arthur Hertzberg
Jewish History > 1948-Today: Modern Zionist Age
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Zionism > Zionism and the Diaspora
French: It's something about the Language
Continuing his series on Jewish communities around the world, Mann introduces us to the Jews of Paris, France- a history filled with both light and darkness. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Jews Around the World
The Jews of Russia: It Had Its History
Continuing his series on Jewish communities around the world, Mann introduces us to the Jews of Russia with a long, illustrious, and varied history. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Anti-Semitism
Jewish History > 0600 - 1789: Middle Ages
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
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A City Hushed To A Whisper: Berlin
Continuing his series on Jewish communities around the world, Mann introduces us to Berlin- a place which represents both some of the best and worst of Jewish history. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Jews Around the World
Yemen: A Land of Pure Dreams
Continuing his series on Jewish communities around the world, Mann introduces us to Yemen- where a rich and unique Jewish history can be found. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
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Keifeng, China: A Jewish Diaspora in the Orient
The lure of the Orient attracts scholars, writers and tourists to unearth, record and experience its history and folklore. The history of its minute Jewish Diaspora also draws much interest, perhaps due to the survival of a community in isolation from mainstream Jewish centers for about a millenium. [Full article...]By: Batsheva Pomerantz
Jews Around the World
Jews Around the World > Lost Tribes
A Story of Successful Absorption : Aliyah from Iraq
This is the story of the immigration of Iraqi Jewry, the oldest Jewish Diaspora on our planet, and their settlement in Israel. [Full article...]By: Sue Tourkin-Komet
Aliyah InfoBase > Aliyah Statistics
Jews Around the World
North African Jewry: Here Was Morocco
Continuing his series on Jewish communities around the world, Mann introduces us to Morocco- place of origin for one of the largest Jewish groups in Israel. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Jews Around the World
Iraqi Jews in Israel: Two Iraqi Jewish Museums in Israel
The first of two articles on Iraqi Jewry in Israel, this article explores Iraqi aliyah to Israel and the Shavuot pogrom that helped to trigger it through two Israeli museums dedicated to this community. [Full article...]By: Sue Tourkin-Komet
Jews Around the World
Museums and Memorials
Vilna: The City That Could Not Be Vanquished
As a continuation of his series on Jewish communities around the world, Stanley Mann introduces us to Vilna with a long and illustrious Jewish history. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
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The Case of Sweden: 'Jewishness' in Postmodernity
This report provides a window into the changing face of European Jewry using Sweden as a case study. [Full article...]By: Lars Dencik
Holocaust
Jews Around the World
Judaism > Jewish Identity
Diaspora Existance: Zionism in a Multiethnic World
A hundred years ago, Theodor Herzl proposed a radical idea-that the Jewish people would find a "normal" place among the nations if it reorganized itself into a nation-state. That would be the solution to "the Jewish Problem." [Full article...]By: Arthur Hertzberg
Jews Around the World
Zionism > Zionism and the Diaspora
He Spoke For Two Hours To The Pope - In Latin: Venice
As a continuation of his series on Jewish communities around the world, Stanley Mann introduces us to the unique history of the Venician Jews. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
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Cracow: A Picture on the Wall
As a continuation of his series on Jewish communities around the world, Stanley Mann introduces us to Cracow, Poland, which has a long and vibrant Jewish history. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Holocaust
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There was a Time: Vienna is a City You Write About
As a continuation of his series on Jewish communities around the world, Stanley Mann introduces us to Vienna where the Jewish community has undergone many changes. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
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A City of Nosegays and White Snow Flowers and Maybe a Frozen Onion: Budapest
As a continuation of his series on Jewish communities around the world, Stanley Mann introduces us to Budapest where, despite its tragic history, Jewish life continues to thrive. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
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Impressions and Reflections from the January Seminars in Kiev and Moscow: Jewish Atlantis
The history and impact of the Holocaust in the Former Soviet Union has been largely ignored. Andrei Shapiro discusses the ramifications of this and an educational initiative working to create change. [Full article...]By: Andrei Shapiro
Education
Holocaust
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Implications of the recent election results: The Jewish Community in Brazil
Today, January 1, 2003, Luiz Inacio da Silva (Lula) assumed the Presidency in Brazil. After winning a landslide election on October 27, 2002, da Silva will serve as Brazil's first leftist president, marking a major change in the political set-up of the country. This document will address the new political reality in Brazil and its influence on the Jewish community. [Full article...]By: Nadav Anner
Jews Around the World
Israeli Connections: Hungarian Roots, Branches and Zionism
It has always been fascinating for me to see how so much of history is enveloped by events that take place as much on the world stage as by seemingly inconsequential personal anecdotes. I watched this theory play out this past Shabbat, when I was an observer to a family reunion whose roots reach far back into Hungary and whose ancestors were responsible for some of the very first rumblings of Zionism in Europe. [Full article...]By: Ilene Bloch-Levy
Holocaust
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Zionism > Zionism and the Diaspora
“There Is A Beautiful Country” : The Carriage Shown Like a Flame
This quote, taken from the Danish National Anthem, captures the essence of Denmark's relations with its Jews. In addition to providing history on the Jews of Denmark, this article outlines the extraordinary effort made by the Danes to save their Jewish citizens during the Holocaust. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Holocaust
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The Jews of Warsaw: 'And Then?...After?' 'There is no Then! There is no After!'
Warsaw often brings up associations of death and destruction. However, Warsaw has a long and varried Jewish history and continues to house a Jewish community. In the following article, Stanley Mann explores all of these aspects of Warsaw with us. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Holocaust
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Museums and Memorials
An Enjoyable Walk Through Amsterdam: The Distance Between Anne Frank and Rembrandt
Jewish Amsterdam is often associated with Anne Frank and as the site of the Secret Annex where her diary was written. However, Amsterdam has a long and varried Jewish history. In the following article, Stanley Mann explores this with us. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Holocaust
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Separated in Time: Prague
In his diaries, Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, the famous writer born in the city of Prague, noted, "We were living in the house which separates the Little Square from the Old Town Square." And this is how you feel when you visit one of the grand European capitals that at times seems separated in time and space, with its history, its castles, and not far away, 60 kilometers from the city, the cries in the night from those who perished ins the concentration camp, Thersienstadt. [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
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Jews in India: A Pebble In The Water
Out of a general population of 1,000,000,000 in India, the number of Jews living there today is like a pebble in the water. Small but yet not insignificant. Most of the Jewish community of 6,000 live today in the city of Bombay. When you think of India you think of the teeming masses of people, streets crowded with the bustle of its citizens, open markets and the feeling in the air of the exotic. You think of the classes, of the very rich and the very poor, of the white marble tomb of the famous Taj Mahal and its weaving tale of a prince who built it in the memory of deceased wife. It is here that many Israelis come to seek another world and time, as they leave behind them the time spent in the army. But, after their wanderings and travels in the vast country and their eventual return home do they know of the beginnings of the Jewish community? [Full article...]By: Stanley Mann
Jews Around the World
Events and Activities Ideas: Shabbat Zachor - March 2002 - 13 Adar
Shabbat Zachor is the Shabbat of Remembrance. It dedicates a Shabbat to our Jewish brethren suffering around the world. For the most part, these are Jews experiencing political oppression for the simple fact that they are Jews. [Full article...]By: 12th House
Jews Around the World
Judaism > Holidays with a Twist > Shabbat
Events and Activities Ideas: Founding of WOJAC - January 25 1976
In 1975, the World Organization of Jews of Arab Countries (WOJAC) was founded in Paris. WOJAC offered representation for the other Middle East refugee situation - that of Jews from Arab lands. [Full article...]By: 12th House
Jews Around the World
Message from the President of the Zionist Federation of Venezuela: Focus on Latin America's Jews
These are difficult days for the Jewish people in several parts of the world, but the region needing the most help these days is Latin America. [Full article...]By: Elias S. Farache
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Jews in Italy: La Spezia Affair, Italy 1946
The latest contribution by Suzanne Kokkonen reflects on relations between the British occupiers, the Jewish refugees and the Italian authorities immediately after the Second World War. [Full article...]By: Suzanna Kokkonen
Jewish History > 1860-1948: Early Zionist Age
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Jews in Italy: Fascism and Zionism
New contributor Suzanna Kokkonen provides an historical background to the Jews of Italy and describes in detail the existence of Jewish Fascists and their relationship to Zionism. [Full article...]By: Suzanna Kokkonen
Jews Around the World
The Jewish Guide School In Moscow: Dor
The Jewish Guide School DOR was founded in Moscow in April 1999 thanks to the mutual cooperation of the Hillel student organization and the Youth Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Russia. The aim of such a joint project was to create a high quality educational and cultural program for students of Jewish Studies and graduates of Moscow institutes. Among the numerous goals of the project, the most important are to distribute knowledge of the history of Jewish community of Moscow and Russia to young people, to involve them in the modern community's life and to satisfy the existing demand of the Diaspora for highly qualified specialists in the history and sites of Jewish Moscow. [Full article...]By:
Jews Around the World
Moroccan Jews in the Amazon: Indiana Jones meets Tangier Moshe
Living in Jewish communities deep in the Amazon jungle, in places with names like Cameta, Obidos, Itacoatiara, Manaos and Tefe in Brazil or Tarapoto, Yurimaguas, Pucallpa, and Iquitos in Peru, 20 year old Moshe Levy brushes the bugs away from his suntanned face and thinks of his family in Morocco as he drifts down the river. His boat is ladden with the supply of rubber he bartered for and accumulated from his jungle contacts. Further down river he will meet his old childhood pal Shlomo Menashe who used to sit in the bench next to him in school in Tetuan. As he had done repeatedly before, he will hand his rubber supplies to Shlomo and load up more pots and pans and other utensils to use for bartering up-river. [Full article...]By: Jeff Malka
Jews Around the World
Judaism > Cholent: Little bit O' this, Little bit O' that
New Worlds and Forgotten Peoples: Incas and Jews
In this opus Gustavo Perednik draws a fascinating parallel between two seemingly unrelated histories of cultural flowering, destruction, struggle and rebirth: that of the great Inca Empire, annihilated by Francisco Pizarro and a small band of adventurers (and the colonial might of Spain) in 1534; and the scattered Jewish people during the long centuries of the Diaspora, generally victims of whatever reigning power had dominion over them. By deepening our understanding of history from a non-Eurocentric perspective, this article offers an impassioned plea for recognition of the contributions of those peoples who do not conform to the "Western" model, in this case, the Quechua speaking nations of Ecuador and Peru, and the Jews. [Full article...]By: Gustavo Perednik
Jews Around the World
Jews Around the World > Lost Tribes
Diaspora Culture Vs. Israeli Pre-eminence: Raising Jews on South Park & Seinfeld
North American Jewry makes up over 43% of world Jewry (with Israeli Jewry the second largest at 36%). In fact between Tel Aviv and New York we have a third of the total world Jewish population. If we are going to try and understand Diaspora Jews we should probably look to America. It is, after all, the most dominant Jewish culture outside of Israel. [Full article...]By: Judith Williams
Jews Around the World
Judaism > Jewish Identity
Counting Shadows: A Broader Look at Cuban Jewish History: The Jews of Cuba
Judaism in Cuba, like other religions there, was severely restricted for almost three decades. Now it is being rebuilt by the ten percent of the Jewish population which remained after the "revolution." As the individual congregations struggle for survival with only a remnant of their former population, new strains are put upon them as entire families leave for Israel. Can Judaism in Cuba survive? A tentative "yes" can be given, but the question is still open. [Full article...]By: Robert M. Levine
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