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…
Category Archives: Society & Politics
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,…
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…
Injustice is not immutable.
Passover this year comes at a critical moment in Catalonia and in Spain. As Jews in Madrid, in Oviedo, Mallorca, Malaga, Valencia, and in Barcelona gather around the seder table to commemorate the enslavement of…
Interview with Rabbi Bonnie Cohen, Jewish Renewal Movement
“Getting people to look inward is where the mystical begins and that is what Reb Shlomo and Reb Zalman gave us in a Jewish context” Around the 50´s a new Jewish religious movement began to…
Exceptional moments. Séfer 2017.
Dear friends, Today we celebrate the second edition of the Jewish Book Festival, Séfer Barcelona, and at the same time we can say that we are living in exceptional times. We must confess that those…
100 years of the Comunidad Israelita de Barcelona (Jewish Community of Barcelona).
The Tour The tour tries to rescue the history of the first years of the CIB, Comunidad Israelita de Barcelona, from its foundation, at the end of 1918, until the inauguration of the new headquarters…
A Rejection of Spain’s Sepharad (Part II)
Spain’s False Restoration of Jewish History Selective Memory The Spanish Government has allegedly, after five centuries, situated their Jewish legacy within their national history. In fact, the history which they present as complete, has been…
Growing up Sepharadi in an Ashkenazi America
I was born and raised in a neighborhood in Boca Raton, Florida, where everyone was above the age of 75, and everyone was all too familiar with the horrors committed by Nazi Germany. Sitting by…
A Rejection of Spain’s Sepharad (Part I)
Locating Sepharad in Spain’s Law of Return “Berlin’s Jewish population goes back to about 1670. Some of these Jews had Sephardic roots, but they’re hard to trace. I charge US$80/hr, 10 hours minimum.” Roger, a…