Gay Block began her career as a portrait photographer in 1973 with portraits of her own wealthy Jewish community in Houston. Starting from this starting point her projects followed the two branches of her family […]
The Biblically named “king of the birds” occupies a special place in a land whose ancient prophets regarded its flight as a metaphor for religious exaltation. The griffon vulture is not only unsightly, smelly and […]
The Italian Jews celebrated their community’s first marriage since the closure of the country’s synagogues, along with many other institutions, due to the Coronavirus. Marco Del Monte, born in Rome and currently studying for a […]
The Moroccan rabbi and president of the Rabbinical Court of Casablanca, Yoshiyahu Pinto, supervised last week the opening of a new Jewish religious school (Yechivah) in Jerusalem, in the presence of a large number of […]
Soon after its launch in May, the account attracted more than 1,000 followers interested in the daily lives of Jews in the UAE. The Jewish community in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which consists mainly […]
How can we understand the emergence of a literature in a given context, precisely that of exile? Why do we see, over a more or less long period of time, authors that emerge tried to […]
Tal Benyezri is a Sephardic Jew of Arab origin. Her father is originally from Morocco. Her mother, who was also a singer and whose name is Lassim Azar, is a Jewish woman from Yemen. She […]
Is contemporary Judaism a singular or plural reality? This questioning may seem strange to those who experience it as a reference point of identity, as well as to its distant observers. However, the ways of […]
The French newspaper Le Figaro nicknamed Avi Gabbay, the Israeli politician and businessman, “the Israeli Macron” in reference to the many similarities between him and French President Emmanuel Macron. Indeed, Avi Gabbay also comes from […]
Deborah Anderson is a singer and songwriter from Colorado. Her album “Silence” was released in 2009. In addition to a photographic collection, she has also published a book entitled “Paperthin” (Verlhac Editions), which gave her […]
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