#jewish-history

#jewish-history

"It was a very smart trick," he tells me, because he'd start by naming the works he, as a sullen preteen, found stupid or boring, and then, by process of elimination, arrive at the pieces he liked. "Then she'd go, 'Why do you like it?'" Ehrenreich says. Suddenly, he had to learn to express why he was into art.

"Don't I have the right, after having suffered so much, to get my property back? Haven't I really paid enough for this war?"

The discovery of oil lamps and Hebrew artifacts in Castulo suggests a previously unknown Jewish community in the late Roman era, around the fourth or fifth century AD.

Henry Hamra recalls being told by Syria's president Hafez al-Assad that Jews could travel anywhere except Israel, leading to the departure of many, including his family.

Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Melman reminded the crowd, "In the camps, we were acted upon. Today, with Israel and its defenders, we act. Am Yisroel Chai."

Sephardi identity is not limited by geography or ethnicity - for us it's always been a philosophy, so we are very open to different expressions of that.