Tebeka fights against discrimination and racism of Ethiopian Jews in Israel
EVENT:Â Â Â Â Ethiopian dinner, music, and Tebeka presentation
DATE:Â Â Â Â Â Â Thursday, June 4, 2009
TIME:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 7-9 pm
DONATION: $150 (100% of your tax deductible donation will go to TEBEKA)
PLACE:Â Â Â Ethiopian Embassy
3506 International Drive, NW
Washington, DC 20008
RSVP:Â Â Â Â Â Sharon Doner-Feldman
sdoner at verizon dot net
Where: Adat Shalom Bethesda, MD
Who: Carlos Cortes
When: May 8th
Please attend a very unique event at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda, MD. This is going to be a really special — and free! — shabbat performance. Carlos Cortés lectures around the world on multiculturalism and education — he is a professor of history at UC Riverside, [...]
Dynamic Nigerian Jewish leader and scholar, Remy Ilona, has the opportunity to come to Brandeis University (outside Boston, MA) for a master’s degree program in Jewish and Near Eastern studies, and bring back a wealth of knowledge to his Igbo community. He will only be able to come if he can find a family to [...]
If you read the previous post you know that there is going to be a HUGE Coolooloosh concert at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue on May 2nd at 10:00pm. The tickets are $19.00 and you can get them here.
Sixth and I Historic Synagogue will give away 2 tickets to one of our readers. The contest [...]
Coolooloosh
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
Saturday, May 2 at 10:00 pm
Coolooloosh, one of Israel’s hottest acts, is a multicultural jam-laced, Middle-Eastern influenced, hip-hop band on the rise. Frontman Rebel Son, aka Joel Covington, an east Baltimore native who immigrated to Israel, has been called the “grandfather of Jerusalem MC’sâ€. Come hear the band The Jerusalem Post [...]
(IsraelNN.com) The recent group of Bnei Menashe immigrants from northeastern India, who made Aliyah (immigrated to Israel)Â last week, paid an emotional first visit to the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem Thursday.
Singing the verse from Jeremiah 31, “And your sons shall return to their borders”, the group of 230 descendants of a Lost Tribe of Israel [...]
Jewish Cultural Society at FAU Hosts ‘The Jews of China’
WHAT: The Jewish Cultural Society (JCS) at Florida Atlantic University, a
unique fundraising group, is hosting “The Jews of China,†a presentation by Thelma Dorfman.
WHEN: Sunday, April 19, at 3 p.m.
WHERE: 7261 Valencia Drive
Boca Raton
COST: $15 for members and $20 for [...]
A New Israel Fund event…
Israel at 61: Seeking to Fulfill the Promise
“The State of Israel…will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or gender.”
During the week that we mark the 61st anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, join us to meet a leading [...]
The New York Times Magazine published an excellent article about Rabbi Capers Funnye on Sunday, April 5:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/magazine/05rabbi-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=capers%20Funnye&st=cse
The title was “Obama’s Rabbi.” Rabbi Funnye has hosted Kulanu speakers twice at his Chicago synagogue, and he helped found the Pan-African Jewish Alliance last summer during Rabbi Gershom Sizomu’s homecoming in Uganda.
The article, by Zev Chafets, includes a [...]
Thanks to Rabbi Peter Tarlow for this Passover wish, with the four questions in Ladino:
With Best Wishes for a Happy and Kosher Passover
Con los Mejores Votos para Una Fiesta de Pésaj Feliz y Kasher
Taken from a medievel pre-Inqusitional Hagaddah
Reproducido de una Hagadá Medievel antes de la Inquisición
Below the Four Questions with a translation into Ladino [...]
