Over 200 people gathered at New York's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue for an evening featuring Moroccan dignitaries and young social entrepreneurs who are working with the American Sephardi Federation to preserve the Judeo-Moroccan past, connect in the present, and build a tolerant future.
Recipe of the Week: Syrian Mehshe By Marilyn Fahem
Ingredients: 6 medium size zucchini (green and/or yellow); 1 pound ground chuck or steak; 1/2 cup white rice; 1/2 cup temerhindi sauce; 1/2 cup lemon juice; 3 tablespoons vegetable oil; 1/2 cup water; 8 cooking apricots (rinsed); salt; pepper; allspice
Instructions: 1.) Wash zucchini well, cut off tips, then cut each in half, 2.) Scoop inside of zucchinis out leaving only a thin shell, 3.) Prepare filling: combine and mix meat, rice, water, vegetable oil, and spices, 4.) Prepare sauce: combine temerhinidi with lemon juice, 5.) Place stuffed zucchini in tight formation within a pot, 6.) Cover with sauce and apricots (liquid should be about 1 1/2 inches deep), 7.) Cook for 2 1/2 hours until tender.
LA’s dynamism stems in part from Persians, who transformed neighborhoods such as Beverly Hills, which, before their arrival, was fast becoming “a sleepy little village populated by cranky Eastern European Jews and polyester-clad Episcopalians from the Midwest.”
Wilshire-Wetherly Building
Photo courtesy of its award-winning architect, Yassi Gabbay
The legendary al-Kuwaiti Brothers with the Baghdad Broadcasting House Band, 1938
Photo courtesy of The Scribe
A Kuwaiti columnist recently lamented how “[t]he history of the Jews in Kuwait is important, but most of our generation knows nothing about it, and our textbooks ignore it.”
A look at how this Baghdad-born writer is “neither nostalgic for an idyllic exile past in the ‘old country,’ nor sentimental about the present, but [has become the] emblematic, ironic, unique, all-Israeli voice of ‘Otherness’ and edgy Israeli pluralism.”
Class @ ASF's Sephardi House in the Center for Jewish History: The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research's "Jews and the Colonial Project" starts November 25th. Members receive a 10% Discount. Click here for additional information and to register.
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