tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:18:26 +0000Sephardic Jews, Politics, Egypt, Feminism, Israel, Human Rights and the Middle East. Les Juifs Séfarades, La Politique, l'Egypte, Le Féminisme, L'Israël, Les droits de l'homme et le Moyen Orient.http://womenslens.blogspot.com/aimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)Blogger4425125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-1665705852250898466Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:16:00 +00002009-07-11T10:18:26.512-04:00Roman EmpireJudeawarJewish theaterAu Festival d’Avignon, l’actrice de 81 ans se tire avec art d’une adaptation ardue : la chronique des conquêtes romaines en Judée.Depuis longtemps, le réalisateur israélien Amos Gitaï est habité par La Guerre des Juifs, chronique des conquêtes romaines en Judée (Ier siècle après J.C.) consignées par Flavius Josèphe à la façon de Jules César pour La Guerre des Gaules. Avec une différence http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/fCXagMu_VQA/la-voix-de-jeanne-moreau-sauve-la.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-voix-de-jeanne-moreau-sauve-la.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-3386193763876170096Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:15:00 +00002009-07-11T10:15:03.785-04:00tourismsinaianti-IsraelEgypt Rebecca CollardJuly 11. 2009 11:27AM GMT TABA BORDER CROSSING, EGYPT // It is 5am and half a dozen Bedouin drivers linger at the taxi stand near the Egyptian side of the Taba border crossing, smoking cigarettes and preparing sweet tea on a gas burner. They are waiting for the arrival of tourists from Israel, many of whom have taken overnight buses. But the crossing, which once funnelled masses http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/Rr86sG15T8I/israeli-tourists-desert-sinai.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/israeli-tourists-desert-sinai.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-7117175413942577220Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:04:00 +00002009-07-11T10:04:59.230-04:00Judaismcultureliterature Antony Lerman The Guardian, Saturday 11 July 2009 addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='Ishtar55'; Jonathan Sacks begins by issuing stark warnings about the current state of the Jews. They have lost their way, lost touch with their soul: "the Jewish people today [is] as divided as it was in the last days of the Second Temple." There's fear abroad and a dangerous sense of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/FObApMQUXC8/ghetto-of-mind.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/ghetto-of-mind.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-7036578268722298608Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:54:00 +00002009-07-11T09:54:56.402-04:00extremismFranceJDL Le Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples (Mrap) réclame mardi l'interdiction en France de la Ligue de défense juive (LDJ) après l'attaque d'une librairie parisienne imputée à ce groupe sioniste réputée pour ses actions violentes.Dans un communiqué, le Mrap "exprime son indignation face aux exactions répétées de la Ligue de défense juive" qu'il qualifie de "groupe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/DyhOMPs8fY8/la-ligue-de-defense-juive-interdite.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-ligue-de-defense-juive-interdite.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-3113568949660310236Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:31:00 +00002009-07-11T07:34:55.012-04:00IslamtourismOttoman EmpireGreeceMen in fezzes and prayer caps take a coffee break in a village near Xanthi. Photo: Yannis Kolesidis for The New York TimesIn Thrace, Islam has long been part of the landscape. But the area was not a familiar landscape to travelers until very recently. Just a couple of decades ago, Thrace was known mainly as an outpost for soldiers guarding Greece from a hostile Turkey and Communist Bulgaria. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/M-rETu_qqb4/thrace-greece-vestiges-of-ottoman.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/thrace-greece-vestiges-of-ottoman.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-6134756334098864025Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:26:00 +00002009-07-11T07:26:31.248-04:00PolandsurvivorNazisEd Alcock for The New York Times Samuel Pisar, a Jewish survivor of Majdanek, Auschwitz and Dachau, the Nazi concentration camps. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='Ishtar55'; PARIS A feral child still lives haunted within him, Samuel Pisar says, and mocks all his fitted suits, lovely furnishings and worldly success. “The little one with the sunken eyes and shaved head helps a lot,http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/WhAd3IUfb1Q/after-survival-journey-to-self-recovery.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/after-survival-journey-to-self-recovery.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-8226361928717469123Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:56:00 +00002009-07-09T20:56:03.476-04:00Sephardi/Mizrahi Studiesby Aviva Ben-Ur Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List – July 5, 2009 Association for Jewish Studies Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List Editor/Moderator: Aviva Ben-Ur <aben-ur(at)judnea(dot)umass(dot)edu Week of Sunday, July 5, 2009 (13 Tamuz 5769) For archived issues please visit Index: 1. Conference Program: 'From Tolerance to Liberty: Jews in Democratic Spain' (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/cGlUNjs4Nl0/ajs-sephardimizrahi-studies-caucus.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/ajs-sephardimizrahi-studies-caucus.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-5282878761104298007Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:27:00 +00002009-07-09T20:27:04.941-04:00burqaMuslim womenfeminismSent by Elie Kheder NEW YORK — I am a Muslim, I am a feminist and I detest the full-body veil, known as a niqab or burqa. It erases women from society and has nothing to do with Islam but everything to do with the hatred for women at the heart of the extremist ideology that preaches it. We must not sacrifice women at the altar of political correctness or in the name of fighting a growingly http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/J-8bxUN3I0k/ban-burqa-by-mona-eltahawy.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)1http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/ban-burqa-by-mona-eltahawy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-6152285065391560991Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:22:00 +00002009-07-09T20:22:53.645-04:00Jewish WomenJewish History WEEK OF JULY 6 JULY 6, 1907Birth of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, daughter of a German Jewish immigrant father and a Mexican Catholic mother. more >> <JULY 9, 1733 Abigail Levy Franks, the most noted of American Jewish colonial letter writers, wrote her son Naphtali, admonishing him to eat nothing but "bread & butter" wherever food preparation was "not done after our Strict Judiacall [kosher] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/wA2IVgou6PU/this-week-in-jewish-history.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/this-week-in-jewish-history.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-2877294613578528758Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:08:00 +00002009-07-09T20:08:49.987-04:00sephardic educational centerLos Angeles addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='Ishtar55'; http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/GArZsKUAYuk/sephardic-educational-center-in-la.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/sephardic-educational-center-in-la.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-1691630868630638509Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:26:00 +00002009-07-09T20:33:01.007-04:00Mangoubipoetryby Elie MangoubiJe dors en toute sérénitéJ'entendais battre mon coeurAu milieu du silence de la nuitSonnette d'alarme qui me poursuitAvec pour compagnon la peur.Mes rêves insensés me terrorisaientM'empêchant de retrouver le sommeil,J'implorais alors les Dieux et le CielPour que mes cauchemars puissent cesser.Je me créais ainsi un monde à moiPour échapper la nuit à l'inquiétudeEt pouvoir dormir enhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/H5RsJY3RzEY/la-plume-du-poete.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-plume-du-poete.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-3340576827061568479Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:08:00 +00002009-07-04T14:43:43.994-04:00videosindependenceSephardic HeritageAs Americans celebrate their independence today, I am celebrating my Sephardic heritage by having chosen specific videos in English and French to remind our readers who they are and where they came from. I am heartened to see that some have not capitulated to the 'slogans du jour' and that they share my disgust at the omission of the Sephardic story from the Jewish narrative. Hopefully, some ofhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/Bb-R7nv33Mw/new-videosnouvelles-videos.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-videosnouvelles-videos.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-2878569502236763343Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:43:00 +00002009-07-09T21:00:40.738-04:00minoritiesIranhuman rightsinformationfreedomsent by David Lisbona Hi,Last week, millions of Iranians took to the streets to peacefully protest election−rigging. The resulting crackdown by the regime and security forces has left scores dead and hundreds locked up. Now a blackout is descending across Iran, internet and other forms of media are being limited and cyber−surveillance threatens to stop all Iranians communicating freely.We can’t http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/UCDldYhGFG4/iran-lets-stop-blackout.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/iran-lets-stop-blackout.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-1633497030513672141Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:38:00 +00002009-07-04T14:40:22.971-04:00photographybirthdayTel Avivsent by Chuck Kuhn Young Orthodox Jews are allowed to smoke during Purim festivities. (Bnei Brak, 1998) © Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos During the course of the last 60 years, eight Magnum photographers have followed the development of the city of Tel Aviv with their cameras. To commemorate the city's 100th birthday, the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Magnum Photography Agency are showing 53 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/qhzU10xJGvE/tel-aviv-through-lens-of-magnum.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/tel-aviv-through-lens-of-magnum.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-5523717547336816658Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +00002009-07-04T14:57:37.744-04:00USAItalyindependenceoccupationsent by Viviane Paolini Do they have a fourth of July in Italy? That's not a trick question. This July 4th, Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base in a town already swarming with U.S. troops stationed at existing bases.  For years now, a major campaign http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/PfIbVF4fY5U/do-they-have-fourth-of-july-in-italy.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/do-they-have-fourth-of-july-in-italy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-4329828625311347598Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:32:00 +00002009-07-04T09:32:49.303-04:00cumbiabelly dancingIndiaMexicoLebanonPhotographs by Terrence McCarthy for The New York Times At the Ethnic Dance Festival, from left: a Chinese lion dance by Leung’s White Crane Lion and Dragon Dance Association; Samar Nassar, a Lebanese bellydancer; and Savitha Sastry in a classical South Indian dance. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='Ishtar55'; excerpt" Amid such smorgasbord conditions, the range of dance sociologyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/pUEdFf_2lHk/in-san-francisco-thinking-globally.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-san-francisco-thinking-globally.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-9113835697055653108Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:30:00 +00002009-07-04T15:31:57.722-04:00FranceexpulsionEgyptUne vingtaine de ressortissants français ont été expulsés d'Egypte au cours des dernières semaines en relation avec l'attentat qui avait coûté la vie à une adolescente française en février au Caire, a-t-on appris auprès du ministère français des Affaires étrangères.  Articles liés Un sous-marin israélien a franchi le canal de Suez Plus d'articles sur : Égypte Discussion: Égypte Aucune http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/vfMSPEOpxnI/une-vingtaine-de-francais-recemment.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/une-vingtaine-de-francais-recemment.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-1595821151761632535Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:26:00 +00002009-07-04T15:29:06.475-04:00Sephardic JewsfamePrepared by Joe Rossano edited by Aimee Kligman Next time someone ask "Hey you, are you a Sepharad?" - "Yes, and so are these, baby"Just to name a fewAbrabanel Aszer ben Jechie Camille Pissarro  David ben Samuel Halevi Jacob ben Aszer Isaac AboabIsaac AlfasiJosé Caro Moisés  NachmanidesMaimónides Baruch EspinozaModigliani  Hasday Ibn Shaprut en la corte de Abderramán. Benjamín de http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/HvLGOvouJOw/famous-sephardim.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/famous-sephardim.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-2862696785142505401Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:28:00 +00002009-07-04T14:53:26.110-04:00July 4thindependencesent by Joe Rossano   I want to wish you all a joyous and safe Independence DayI read somewhere that our ancestors used to celebrate the 4th of July with hamburgers, hot dogs and barbecue, how uncivilized when compared to our traditional Independence Day Meal Happy 4thJOJOhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/qwnWtxU5tRk/happy-4th-of-july-2009.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)1http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-4th-of-july-2009.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-8371468710083191582Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:18:00 +00002009-07-03T23:21:24.989-04:00PolandJewish cemeteryprisonersVarsovie a décidé de mettre la réinsertion au service du patrimoine. En vertu d’un accord passé entre la Direction nationale des prisons et une fondation polonaise de protection du patrimoine juif, des prisonniers vont rénover et entretenir bénévolement des cimetières en déshérence. Avant-guerre, 3,5 millions de Juifs vivaient en Pologne. Il s’agissait alors de la plus vaste communauté d’Europe ;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/4yKosq3XRac/des-prisonniers-polonais-charges-de.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/des-prisonniers-polonais-charges-de.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-8109341344349393066Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:14:00 +00002009-07-03T23:16:48.080-04:00Jewish MuseumStudio Armadillo: Hadas Kruk (Israeli, b. 1970) and Anat Stein (Israeli, b. 1972), Hevruta-Mituta, 2007, plastic chess board, thirty-two knitted skullcaps. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='Ishtar55';NEW YORK, NY.- Artists and designers’ rising interest in ritual since the 1990s inspires Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life, the first international http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/n2Y2tJa3hgc/jewish-museum-announces-reinventing.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/jewish-museum-announces-reinventing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-483475069911238760Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:46:00 +00002009-07-03T17:46:05.134-04:00antisemitismfreedom of religionEgyptsent by David Shasha addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='Ishtar55'; Out of Egypt: Howard Levy is among the performers in an interfaith musical group that pulled out of an Egyptian music festival after the religious background of participants became an issue.Wendy Sternberg was thrilled when the organization she founded, Genesis at the Crossroads, was invited to perform at the eighthhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/JEfwo1i6s_8/harmony-silenced-at-egyptian-music-fest.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/harmony-silenced-at-egyptian-music-fest.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-7517644179173388627Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:37:00 +00002009-07-03T10:37:16.054-04:00racismIsraelGila OrkinJTA Wire Service The gains made by far-right parties across Europe in the recent European parliamentary elections are certainly cause for concern. But Europe is not the only place Jews should be concerned about the far right rising. It’s happening in Israel, too. In Europe, analysts have commentated on the interplay of factors that contributed to the success of overtly racist and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/jpWPK9lVS3s/jews-must-fight-israeli-racism.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/jews-must-fight-israeli-racism.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-5554732078073286750Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:30:00 +00002009-07-03T10:30:36.322-04:00independenceAmerican JewsRabbi Dr. Moshe Weisblum Special to the Jewish Times Shabbat Shalom and Happy Independence Day Weekend! This weekend America celebrates her 233rd year of freedom. Since 1776, we have been blessed in this wonderful country to enjoy a life where there is no ceiling or restriction on opportunities. While most of the nation will usher in the holiday with beautiful and exciting fireworks, Jews aroundhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/KrbKFOQIUf8/july-fourth-and-jews.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/july-fourth-and-jews.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-8689802701028685480Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:22:00 +00002009-07-03T07:22:07.271-04:00AlexandriasocietyhistoryPour s’interroger sur Alexandrie, son sens qui change sans cesse, ses époques, ses lieux, ses habitants, sa mer… pour réfléchir à «La réanimation» de la ville, entre la volonté de l’État et le rêve de ses habitants, il fallait une discussion qui s’écarte un peu des actes du colloque qui a eu lieu à la Bibliothèque d’Alexandrie sur le même sujet. La rencontre officielle était dominée par les http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/PwWDUUIvprI/alexandrie-ses-habitants-dun-cote-son.htmlaimeekgmn@gmail.com (Aimée Kligman, née Dassa)0http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2009/07/alexandrie-ses-habitants-dun-cote-son.html