A Strong Voice of the Sephardic Community
Rhodes is a small island, just off the Turkish Coast, with a history that is as colorful as the natural beauty of the island. According to famous Jewish historian Abraham Galant, as the 16th century opened, Cardinal D'Aubusson of Rhodes initiated forced conversion of the Jews to Catholicism and ...
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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado
Maurice Amado (1888 to 1968) was born in Izmir, Turkey and came from a Sephardic Jewish family that lived for several centuries in the Old Ottoman Turkish Empire, following their ancestors’ expulsion from Spain in 1492. Amado emigrated to the United States from Turkey in 1904 where he se...
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The 517-Year-Old Journey of Turkish Jews from the Iberian Peninsula to the Present
By Naim Guleryuz* At midnight on August 2, 1492, when Columbus embarked on what would become his most famous expedition to the New World, his fleet departed from the relatively unknown seaport of Palos because the shipping lanes of Cadiz and Seville were clogged with Sephardic Jews expelled from Spa...
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First Chief Rabbi in Istanbul: Rabbi Moshe Capsali
In 1453, when the Turkish Sultan Mehmed II conquered Istanbul from the Byzantine Empire, he selected Rabbi Moshe to guide the affairs of all the Jews living in the vast Ottoman Empire, most of whom were Greek-speaking Jews known as Romaniotes. This was thirty-nine years prior to the Sephardim’...
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"The Ottoman Mentality Was Always An Educated One"
At the end of lunch, the old guy looked into the young man’s eyes and told him: “You have to do it.” The young man couldn’t turn the older one down and he accepted his offer by saying,“Yes, I have to do it.” The old man, Leon Levy, who served as president from 198...
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How to Invest in the U.S.New York State Tax Incentives Encourage BusinessesSunday, 14 June 2009 New York’s tax incentives, which take the form of credits, deductions, or allocation formula changes, can help reduce a company’s overall effective tax...+ Full Story |
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TurkeyEuropean Day of Jewish Culture in IstanbulTuesday, 06 October 2009 For the past 10 years, on the first Sunday of September, from Germany to Portugal, from France to Russia, from England to Spain with 30 different European countries...+ Full Story |
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AssociationsA Major Event to Celebrate: The Quincentennial FoundationTuesday, 06 October 2009 The Quincentennial Foundation 1992 marked the five hundredth anniversary of this most gracious welcome of Sephardim to Turkish lands. Turkish Jews felt it was both...+ Full Story |
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PoliticiansTurkish Coalition of America Welcomes 100th Member of the Turkish CaucusFriday, 16 October 2009 The Congressional Caucus on US-Turkish Relations and Turkish Americans has reached a milestone in membership this week with the additions of Representative John B....+ Full Story |
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BusinessmanThe Oscar of Philanthropy Goes to Koc FamilyFriday, 16 October 2009 New York Anatolia Agency - The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign-policy think tank based in Washington, has deemed the Koç Family worthy of...+ Full Story |
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TechnologyRHXO Technology Group Partners with TURKOFAMERICA MagazineThursday, 16 July 2009 Rhxo Technology Group, leading software and web application development company, announces the launch of its new strategic partnership with TurkofAmerica Magazine,...+ Full Story |
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TravelDiscover Bioturism in CappadociaWednesday, 03 February 2010_thumb.jpg) By Nergis Canefe Cappadocia is the ancient name of a large region in the center of Anatolia, although when we speak of Cappadocia today we refer specifically to the...+ Full Story |
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