The American Sephardi Federation’s New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival has “risen in stature to the point where it usually screens several films that will be theatrically released. Three of this year’s films are particularly worthy of mention,” writes George Robinson, the Jewish Week’s Film Critic, in his review of God’s Slave (Argentina), The Dove Flyer (Iraq), and Orange People (Morocco/Israel).
Enrico Macias and his grandson, Symon, preformed before an enraptured, packed audience at Opening Night of the 18th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
An ISIS terrorist in July destroying artifacts inside the purported Tomb of Jonah, Mosul, Iraq
Why is the antiquities market from Iraq flooded with artifacts these days, many of them damaged? ISIS is both destroying historic sites, Jewish sites among them, that don’t conform to their puritanical vision of Islam, and selling pillaged artifacts in order to raise revenue for their perpetual, imperialist war.
From left to right: Sara Nodjoumi (Artistic Director), Kamal Hachkar (2015 Pomegranate Award Winner - Film), Jason Guberman (Executive Director), Enrico Macias (2014 Pomegranate Award Winner - Lifetime Achievement: Music), Erez Bitton (2015 Pomegranate Award Winner - Lifetime Achievement: Literature), David Dangoor (President)
Sami Hathroubi is a 30-year old French Muslim of Tunisian descent whose job is to bring Muslims and Jews together. What drives her? “I’m fed up… when you have Jews standing up only against anti-Semitism and when you have Muslims standing up only against Islamophobia.”
European Holocaust commemorations are often dedicated to remembering how Jews were transported to their death. Bulgaria, however, recently marked how individuals in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, civil society, and government joined together 72 years ago to block the deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps, saving 50,000 people in the process.
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