tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85886756156810614292009-11-25T02:21:44.972-05:00WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fémininSephardic 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.Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.comBlogger4921125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-71493880038960531442009-11-24T07:38:00.001-05:002009-11-24T07:40:49.269-05:00Israel's "Pathology"The Jewish Israeli body politic is diseased, that one man writes, because it has not adjusted to the Jews' reentry into history with a state of their own. Too many Jews are still stuck in the ancient feeling of powerlessness and victimhood. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Israelis that their country is militarily powerful, and neither friendless nor at risk. They should therefore stop Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-82154673818745318752009-11-24T07:35:00.000-05:002009-11-24T07:35:55.970-05:00Driving up J StreetThe success of J Street's conference is a symptom of the tensions that liberal American Jews feel towards Israel Security guards blocked the doors to several of the panels at J Street's first annual conference this week – because the rooms were so packed it would have been illegal to let any more people in. A discussion entitled "The need for a regional comprehensive approach to the Arab-Israeli Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-37190234755783101472009-11-23T15:51:00.002-05:002009-11-23T15:54:27.117-05:00Author of 9/11 Commission Report: Don't Believe UsHow could fires cause three steel-framed buildings to collapse straight down in free-fall time, looking to every Youtube viewer like a classic example of controlled demolition? How could a jetliner with a 150-foot wing span have disappeared inside a 20-foot hole in the Pentagon? And how could four planes vaporize, black box and all, leaving nothing behind but a few paper passports that Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-30613206529777038072009-11-23T12:17:00.000-05:002009-11-23T12:17:46.788-05:00Zionism and Oriental Jews: Dialectic of Exploitation and CooptationThe 17 page document, written by Ehud Ein-Gil and Moshe Machover, is available in pdf format here. The reading does require patience and attention. After which, you can begin to explore the analysis of the document as written by David Shasha, below:
For those who think that anti-Sephardi racism is solely a product of Right-Wing Zionism and Ashkenazi Orthodoxy, the following article from the Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-8608899603136544062009-11-23T11:04:00.000-05:002009-11-23T11:04:53.462-05:00André Malraux et l'Islam en 1956
envoyé par Jack Lévi
translated by Aimée Kligman
C'est le grand phénomène de notre époque que la violence de la poussée islamique.
The violence in the rise of Islam is the biggest phenomenon of our days.
Sous-estimée par la plupart de nos contemporains, cette montée de l'islam est analogiquement comparable aux débuts du communisme du temps de Lénine.
Underestimated by the majority of our Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-16169781830047033122009-11-23T10:33:00.000-05:002009-11-23T10:33:42.318-05:00This week in Jewish Women's History
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23
NOVEMBER 23, 1847A group of Jewish women in Charleston, South Carolina deplored the death of British author Grace Aguilar as a "national calamity." more >>
NOVEMBER 25, 1917The first shelter for Jewish women discharged from New York jails was opened by the New York section of the National Council of Jewish Women. more >>
NOVEMBER 27, 1972"Free To Be You and Me," the Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-63488508165237550512009-11-23T10:29:00.000-05:002009-11-23T10:29:54.228-05:00Marhaba mes Amissent by Elie Mangoubi
Marhaba....
Marhaba is an arabic greeting word used in the Middle East as Hello. But most people don't know its source and meaning; Marhaba it comes from 2 Syriac words which were used by the first Christians Mar+ haba
Mar = Master or God
haba =Love
Mar-haba = God love (you)
إن كلمة
"مرحبا" هي كلمة قديمة ذات
أصول آرامية
استخدمها المسيحيون
الأوائل وهي ذات
Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-35077632372564232522009-11-23T10:22:00.000-05:002009-11-23T10:22:02.731-05:00Book Launch Event in NY: Sami Shalom Chetrit (11/30)sent by David Shasha
*Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC)
BOOK LAUNCH Sami Shalom Chetrit author of Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews Meets Critics Joseph Massad & Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber * **
Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews (Rutledge, 2010) is the first book in English to examine the political history of Mizrahi Jews (Jews from Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-26548556024103134012009-11-22T09:05:00.000-05:002009-11-22T09:05:28.609-05:00Nasrallah réélu à la tête du Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah a été réélu chef du Hezbollah pour un sixième mandat, a annoncé jeudi 19 novembre 2009 le groupe armé chiite libanais dans un communiqué. Selon le document, la conférence générale du Hezbollah s'est achevée par l'adoption d'un nouveau document politique, le deuxième du genre après la lettre ouverte de 1985. Le secrétaire général du Hezbollah va présenter le nouveau document Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-13410181039802334182009-11-22T08:57:00.001-05:002009-11-22T08:59:48.692-05:00Human Right Watch ReviewUS: Federal Court Prosecution of 9/11 Suspects a Key Step Towards Justice >> In a victory for justice, the Obama administration Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-90697126302227895652009-11-22T08:54:00.003-05:002009-11-22T08:56:39.936-05:00Invitation to the Camille Fox Exhibitionaddthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='Ishtar55';Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-63113093007998185992009-11-22T08:52:00.000-05:002009-11-22T08:52:47.732-05:002010 globalFEST - Sunday, January 10mark your calendars; because we have always been world citizens
7:00 PM Webster Hall
Twelve artists, Three Stages, One Unforgettable Night
Alif Naaba, West African acoustic song (Burkina Faso) Cara Dillon, striking Celtic vocalist (Ireland) Caravan Palace, swingin’ electro manouche jazz (France) Cedric Watson, Creole Zydeco heir from Louisiana (USA) Federico Aubele, bolero andAimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-405700111100687172009-11-22T08:47:00.000-05:002009-11-22T08:47:03.790-05:00Peace in Arabicby David Suissa
David Suissa is the founder of OLAM magazine and a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. You can read his daily blog at suissablog.com and e-mail him at Suissa@olam.org
It's not that I get tired of listening to Jewish speakers. More often than not, they motivate and inspire me. Whether I agree with them or not, there's a familiarity, a connection. I learn from Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-92134774952409101542009-11-22T08:37:00.001-05:002009-11-22T08:39:40.183-05:00Trailer Los Abrazos rotosel último de Penolope Cruz [Festival] PINTA 09 Art Fair Art fair season is upon us, and this week, the most important galleries from Latin America, Europe, and the US converge on NYC for the PINTA Modern & Contemporary Art Fair, showcasing all the best work by Latin American artists. The fair is open to the public, and definitely worth checking out. Sunday, Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-78824611648410163792009-11-22T08:09:00.000-05:002009-11-22T08:09:04.268-05:00Jewish support for Israeli-Arab causes goes mainstream, irking some
NEW YORK (JTA) -- When the Reform movement passed a resolution endorsing advocacy for Israeli Arabs, it wasn’t the first time an American Jewish group had backed the cause of Israeli-Arab equality.
In recent years, a growing number of American Jews have thrown their support toward Israeli-Arab causes, including civil rights and advocacy organizations, women's empowerment courses, Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-85652385506603961162009-11-21T21:15:00.000-05:002009-11-21T21:15:12.010-05:00Les pages francophones du Samedi
Mor Karbasi, contre l'oubli du ladino: "Elle chante en ladino, une autre langue qui risque l'oubli, comme le yiddish." Pour présenter Mor Karbasi, avant son entrée en scène, Laurence Haziza, programmatrice du festival Jazz'n'Klezmer, pointe cette singularité de la jeune chanteuse israélienne, invitée le 19 novembre à l'Espace Rachi, à Paris.
Avec Yasmin Levy (en concert le 30 novembre au Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-31418507501396767022009-11-21T19:40:00.000-05:002009-11-21T19:40:55.999-05:00Le nouveau Larousse envoyé par Jack Levi
AIDE AU TIERS MONDE
Aide payée par les pauvres des pays riches pour aider les riches des pays pauvres. (Robert Burron)
AMI - AMIE
Se dit d'une personne du sexe opposé qui a ce 'Je ne sais quoi' qui élimine toute envie de coucher avec elle.
AMOUR
Mot en 5 lettres, trois voyelles, deux consonnes et deux idiots.
AUTO-STOPPEUSE
Jeune femme généralement jolie et court Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-42112078297331555362009-11-21T19:25:00.000-05:002009-11-21T19:25:02.144-05:00Press Release: THE JEWS OF SPAIN: PAST AND PRESENTfrom Lynn Winters
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
International Symposium to Focus on the Sephardic Experience: Spain and Its Jews
Contact: Lynne Winters at 212.294.8350 x2
NEW YORK (November 16, 2009) -The historic link between Spain and its Jews has been a study of contrasts. Renowned as both the historic birthplace of Sephardic culture, Spain was also the site of Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-3058234707226440512009-11-21T18:54:00.000-05:002009-11-21T18:54:39.879-05:00A virus called 'Shariah'sent by Viviane Paolini
A Denver airport shuttle driver from Afghanistan who plotted to blow up subway trains in New York City. A Jordanian who tried to destroy one of Dallas' tallest skyscrapers. An American who thought he was detonating a truck bomb aimed at a federal courthouse in Springfield, Illinois.
Law enforcement authorities who successfully stymied these alleged attacks have been Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-87128596390492876302009-11-21T18:50:00.000-05:002009-11-21T18:50:49.035-05:00The Sultan of Brunei (King Of Luxury)prepared by Joe Rossano
edited by Aimee Kligman
The Sultan of Brunei's wealth increases by 90 euros every second!
No envy please!
This means around 5400 euros per minute, 324000 euros each hour, 7776000 euros a day
Implies about 54432000 euros a week (that's 54 million and 432000 thousand euros)
Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah ... President of the richest country Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-77737797945408242642009-11-20T20:20:00.000-05:002009-11-20T20:20:48.206-05:00Kosovo, Prishtina Ethnological Museum
Prishtina got its ethnological museum only in 2006. Originally the home of the local nobleman Emin Gjiku, the home was turned into a biology museum when the family was expelled from Kosovo in the 1950's.
The museum - a complex that includes two houses and two supporting buildings - is run by the Museum of Kosovo. The first house - built in the 18th century - includes the food storage and Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-21044044247350236332009-11-20T20:17:00.000-05:002009-11-20T20:17:27.663-05:00Lula Says U.S. Shouldn’t Broker Middle East Talks By Iuri Dantas and Fabiola Moura
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is responsible for the crisis in the Middle East and shouldn’t be coordinating peace talks for the region, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians ought to be managed by the United Nations, Lula said in an interview today with two local radio stationsAimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-26456635433174990932009-11-20T15:43:00.001-05:002009-11-20T15:44:42.803-05:00Palestine 1001 NightsPalestine 1001 NightsHamas is negotiating with Israel. This is what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confidently said to a BBC -Arabic reporter in an exclusive interview. How does he know? Abbas asserted that there are "no secrets in Israel".If things could only be this simple in the Middle East, Mr. Abbas would have known from the get-go that the Oslo Accords were a disaster for theAimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-7970653875005206942009-11-20T09:17:00.000-05:002009-11-20T09:17:43.510-05:00Patchwork of Cultures: The Sephardic-Latino Connection"Patchwork of Cultures: The Sephardic-Latino Connection" concert for over 900 young students will be performed by the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, celebrating their 13th year using the language of music to build bridges between cultures and generations in LA.
Westlake Village, CA (PRWEB) November 20, 2009 -- The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony's exciting education concert: "Patchwork of Cultures: Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-76194293745722145312009-11-18T17:21:00.000-05:002009-11-18T17:21:13.344-05:00Eretz Israel Museum Showing People, Faces, Masks and Beliefs
A visitor looks at an art installation that is part of an exhibit entitled "Faces: Inside and Out", at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv November 16, 2009. Reuters/Gil Cohen Magen.
TEL AVIV.- What does a face tell us about the character of its owner? Why is one person considered handsome and another ugly, one funny and one frightening? This is a fascinating, colorful and surprising exhibit Aimée Dassa Kligmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436082862438800644aimeekgmn@gmail.com0