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Leon Saltiel: Glimmers of hope in battling Greek antisemitism
By George Gilson
When 44-year-old Leon Saltiel was growing up in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest, the Jewish community, which once constituted the majority group, remained introverted and did not talk about their Jewishness, even 40 years after the city's Jews were deported and 95 percent of them were exterminated in Auschwitz.
Leon Saltiel: Glimmers of hope in battling Geek anti-Semitism
By George Gilson
When 44-year-old Leon Saltiel was growing up in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest, the Jewish community, which once constituted the majority group, remained introverted and did not talk about their Jewishness, even 40 years after the city's Jews were deported and 95 percent of them were exterminated in Auschwitz.
Turkey’s Jews meet at historic Ankara synagogue after 40 years
After nearly four decades, Jews in Turkey came together at the Ankara Synagogue to "revive their memories."
Isaak Haleva, the chief rabbi of Turkey's Jews, as well as several members of the Jewish community, joined the event in the capital Ankara.
In a speech on the occasion, Haleva said the preservation of synagogues is important for his community in Turkey.
“I pray for a miracle”: Frenchman fights to be repatriated from Turkish prison
The Istanbul Criminal Court sentenced Fabien Azoulay to 16 years and eight months in prison in 2017
2,000 Turkish Jews applied for Portuguese citizenship: Envoy
Some 2,000 Turkish Jews have applied for Portuguese citizenship after Portugal's government decided to grant nationality through naturalization to the descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Portugal and Spain in the 15th century, Portuguese Ambassador to Ankara Paula Leal da Silva has said.
Experimenting with art
The Jewish Museum of Greece is in a pretty, salmon-colored neoclassical building with gray shutters on Nikis Street, which links Syntagma Square and Plaka in central Athens. I had passed it many times without entering. I finally did so to see the exhibition "FORM/Less" by young artist Maria Fragoudaki. "I was invited by Saranna Biel-Cohen, an American curator who works with the museum.
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Turkish Jewish Museum reopens after update
An updated and modernized version of the Museum of Turkish Jews has opened at the Neve ?alom Synagogue in IstanbulThe Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews has opened at Istanbul's Neve ?alom Synagogue with updated content that makes the most of state-of-the-art technology.
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Jews among Berbers: a Moroccan Exhibition
A photo exhibition titled Jews among Berbers was officially opened at the Bulgarian Academy of Science in Sofia on Thursday.
Dozens of images, short of making up an entire picture of everyday life of Moroccan Jews, show little known scenes dated back to the 1940s and 1950, when Jewish populations larger than now coexisted peacefully with Arab and Berber Muslims.
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Karamanlisgate: Peculiar CIA documents linking two former PMs with Nazis spark interest… again! (read docs)
An unusual leaked CIA document that has been around since 2006 has been doing the rounds on the Internet in recent hours, trending on Twitter as #Karamanlis_gate.
Spain set to approve citizenship plan for Sephardic Jews
Spanish lawmakers were set June 11 to give final approval to a law to right a "historical mistake" and ease the path to citizenship for the descendants of Jews it expelled in 1492.