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20 November 2015 
In Memory of Sir Naim Dangoor, A”H, an Iraqi-British Entrepreneur and Philanthropist 
 
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Morocco and its Jewish Museum a model of coexistence
By Yehuda Lancry, JNS.org
 
Morocco has been spared the destruction plaguing the region thanks to the Kingdom’s “ability to absorb ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, and translate it into a coherent national identity.” According to Moroccan-born Yehuda Lancry, Israel’s former ambassador to France and the UN, “The edifying fact that a Jewish Museum… has been operating in recent decades in Casablanca is a resounding testimony of the Jewish-Arabic symbiosis in the contemporary Moroccan social fabric.”
Zhor Rehihil, the Casablanca Jewish Museum’s head conservatrice, speaking at the ASF-Association Mimouna Moroccan Jewish Caravan, Congregation Shearith Israel: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, 22 October 2014 (Photo courtesy of PAYAM Studio)

Navid Negahban in Baba Joon (Photo courtesy of LA Weekly.com and United King Films)
Baba Joon Is the First Film to Explore the Struggle of Jewish Iranians” 
By Orly Minazad, LA Weekly

The Israeli film Baba Joon“Daddy Dearest” in Persian, investigates how, post-1979, three generations of Jewish-Iranian men “navigate domestic life through cultural and religious divides.” Spoken in Hebrew and Persian and featuring Israeli and Iranian actors, the movie won five Israeli Oscars. The Iranian regime, however, punished an Iranian actor who starred in the movie by banning him from returning to the country.
Song of the Week: “Hanaleh Hitbalbalah (Hanaleh Got Confused)” 
 
 

The Tsli’lei Ha’Oud band (Photo courtesy of YouTube)
 
This week’s featured song is a 1975 hit by one of Israel’s early Mizrahi bands, Tsli’lei Ha’Oud (Sounds of the Oud), “Hanaleh Hitbalbalah (Hanaleh Got Confused).” The song reinterpreted, in Mizrahi style, a classic Israeli anthem that was originally based on an Eastern European Klezmer melody and Nathan Alterman’s satirical poem written for Tel Aviv’s 1934 Purim party. The tune was reworked once again in 1976 after Jerusalem’s Mizrahi, working-class soccer team, Beitar Jerusalem, won the Israeli Cup.
The evolution of Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes
By William Armstrong, Hurriyet Daily News
 
The 17th century false Jewish messiah, Sabbatei Sevi, converted to Islam but practiced a strange Jewish-Islamic faith until he died in Turkey. Some of Sevi’s followers believed in their leader’s messianic mission until the end, and then refused to return to normative Judaism; they came to be known as Dönmes. In The Burden of Silence: Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes, historian Cengiz Şişman explores the history of the Dönmes from the 17th century until today. “Some have painted the Dönmes,” according to Şişman, “as a secret branch of world Jewry,” bent on undermining Islam in Turkey.
The only known portrait of Shabbatai Sevi, sketched from memory by an eyewitness at Smyrna, 1665 (Thomas Coenen, Ydele Verwachting der Joden, Amsterdam, 1669)
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NAHMIAS ET FILS Distillery Tour
6 December at 1 PM
201 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers NY, 10701
914-294-0055
 
The Shearith Israel League, American Sephardi Federation, and Beth Aharon Congregation of Riverdale invite you to a tour and demonstration of David Nahmias’ unique Moroccan distillery and a tasting of the different products, all of which are kosher (see list here).
                                                      

For those who need transportation, we will meet at the clock in Grand Central Terminal at 11:30AM to catch an 11:47 train to Yonkers. 
 
Please RSVP here
Cost: $10 (excluding transportation)

A light luncheon will be served


To pay online click here (and scroll to the bottom to for the PayPal “buy now” button). Check and cash accepted at the door.

 
Come visit ASF’s Leon Levy Gallery at The Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street) to view our new exhibition: “Baghdadis & The Bene Israel in Bollywood & Beyond: Indian Jews in the Movies”
on display now through March 2016

Click here for viewing hours and additional information
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