This is a special book selection we made for this Sefer edition. We had a lot of sales and we are very happy. Many thanks to La Tribu bookshop to be with us in this adventure. Tsili APPELFELD, AHARON Club Editor Esperanza: una tragedia AUSLANDER,…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

‘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…

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…

Within Spain’s selection of the more flattering periods of Jewish history, they have scrambled linearity and avoided the legally repressed 20th Century. Un-scrutinised and accounted for history, is simply sidestepped. As with the Red, which stops its history at 1492, El Centro Sepharad Israel omits…