La Disputa
“The Notorious” McGregor no tiene rival en la UFC, la mayor competición de artes marciales mixtas del mundo. Es difícil encontrar ni siquiera en el reino animal un ser vivo tan voraz. Le bastaron 13 segundos…
Manual para darse a la bebida
Kingsley, el cigarro y la botella. / TERENCE DONOVAN En estos tiempos de corrección política, en los que cualquier opinión, ironía o broma puede escandalizar a un montón de necios carentes de sentido del humor, leer…
Porfía en Texas, el Bar Mitzvá de Sam Horowitz
El Bar Mitzvá, a diferencia de otros rituales del ciclo de vida en el Judaísmo, no es una ceremonia de origen bíblico. No poseemos testimonio de este ritual antes del siglo XV. A pesar de…
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Raquel creció en el Buenos Aires de los años 60 en una familia judía no practicante y de izquierdas, en la que los rituales y las tradiciones no ocupaban precisamente un lugar destacado. En su casa sólo se celebraban dos comidas festivas al año: una…
De Kertész a Steiner: els reptes de la pedagogia, la cultura i la identitat després de l’Holocaust
“Déu va crear el món i l’ésser humà va crear Auschwitz” (I.Kertész) L’Holocaust fou un fet tan terrible i desmesurat que ni els mateixos presoners ni els responsables de la matança eren capaços de creure que havia passat. Víctimes i botxins albergaven una realitat tan…
Mozaika opens its doors to the neighbors
Yesterday we opened the doors of Casa Adret to the neighbors of the Call, the old Jeiwsh neighborhood. A week before, several Mozaika members went door to door, handing out invitations to come and meet us, have a coffee, explain our project, and especially, listen…
The European Days of Jewish Culture: Symbol of the awakening of Jewish culture in Europe.
Before the Second World War, more than seven million Jews lived in Central and Eastern Europe. Jewish communities lived in this vast territory of Old Europe for centuries, developing their own culture intensely related to that of their neighbours. Public records and archives tell us…
Anti-Semitism in France
In memory of Mireille Knoll, Sara Halimi, Philippe Braham, Francois-Michel Saada, Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Rabbi Yonatan Sandler, Aryeh Sandler (6 years old), Gabriel Sandler (3 years old), Miriam Monsonego (8 years old), Ilan Halimi, Sebastien Selam murdered in France just because they were Jews.…
A Rejection of Spain’s Sepharad (Part IX): Conclusion
Spain has an awkward relationship with its past. The lamentable restoration of Cadiz’s Castello de Matrea is no exception. A stupefied journalist from the Guardian explains the reconstruction process of the tower ‘in which new materials have been used to protect older stones’. The writer…
A Rejection of Spain’s Sepharad (Part VIII): Spain’s Lucrative Sephardic History
When Spain shows an interest in its Jewish history, as well as its present Jewish community, it is often attached to a money-making scheme. A cursory glance at the articles and figures criticising the law implies this economic framing. The Gatestone Institute determines that the…
A Rejection of Spain’s Sepharad (Part VII): The Law’s Eye in Lebanon/ Building an Independent Diasporic Identity
Sitting in Bet Shalom, a reform synagogue on a sloping street off Barcelona’s Gracia, I speak to Jaim Cassim, the synagogue’s president. Additionally, he is the president of the committee set up to make the law, as he is also a lawyer. When inquiring why…
A Rejection of Spain’s Sepharad (Part VI): Spain’s Cultural Diplomat
‘I think its a political thing – you need it to have some kind of excuse to be friend of Israel. With this law, you repair the hard feelings of people.’ Laura Kolesnicov, the director of Barcelona’s Reform synagogue ATID, offers her view as we…
A Rejection of Spain’s Sepharad (Part V): The Law’s New Identities
The Law unifies the two main ways the Government has addressed Jewish history. Not only does it present a version of Sephardic past, and present identity which is in line with their revisionist account, but it frames the law as the culmination of the nation’s…